Recommend HDD

So I am going to by a new 0.93 TiB (1 TB) HDD, any suggestions ?
I currently have a 465 GiB (500 GB) Western Digital, which works fine and creates low noise.
I don´t need high transferrates, cause I want to use this one as an additional external HDD.

I tend to buy a Western Digital buy Seagate and Hitachi are also interessing, so anyone of you got some suggetions or experience with MTBF.

I've used Western Digital quite a bit and they are reliable HDDs. I've had three of them for about five years now and none of them have failed yet. I have two external Western Digital HDDs as well and they both run great too.

So, I'd go with Western Digital, but that's just because I've never had a problem with anything of theirs.

Go with Western Digital. They are reasonably priced and last several years.

anyone knows when there will be new versions of the Western Digital VelociRaptor with higher capacity available ??
This HDD is awesome, I would like to have one as an internal HHD but 280 GiB (300GB) is a little bit less capacity.

i bought an 500gb hitachi HDD yesterday and it seems to be good runs pretty fast but i guess if i had the money i would have got an western gital one (i go with highly used names when buying things im not syre on)

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I think any of those would be fine except TekStor (never heard of this company in my life o.O), western digital seems most respected. I recently bought a raptor and just love it, i also have a 750 samsung and never had any problems with that either. I do seems to be getting some failure on 2 old Maxtor IDE drives, clicking sound and then restarting the HDD... but then again, they are like 6 or 7 years old (used them to build my first computer).

Here are some prices and stats:

Price per GB / Title (ProductID) / Ms / Cache / Rpm

€ 0,12 / Samsung SpinPoint F1 (HD103UJ) / 8,9 / 32 / 7200
€ 0,12 / Western Digital Caviar GP (WD10EACS) / 8,9 / 16 / 7200
€ 0,13 / Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST31000340AS) / 8,5 / 32 / 7200
€ 0,14 / Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 (HDS721010KLA330) / 8,2 / 32 / 7200
€ 0,14 / Maxtor STM31000340AS / 8,5 / 32 / 7200
€ 0,16 / Samsung HE103UJ 1 TB / 8,9 /32 / 7200
€ 0,18 / Western Digital Caviar GP (WD1000FYPS) / 8,9 / 16 / 7200
€ 0,18 / Western Digital WD1001FALS 1TB / 8,9 / 32 / 7200
€ 0,20 / Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (ST31000340NS) / 8,5 / 32 / 7200

I agree Maxtor as an external drive has died on me in every case before 1 1/2 years pass.

But I don't do external hard drives anymore as I write too much on my drives, they usually die before the two year mark...I just burn out the motors. And by that notion the externals die in half that.

Western Digital has been good to me, though I haven't spread around brands that much. Which proves they're good enough not to spur looking elsewhere and that's good enough in my book.

WD raptor series.
10000rpm of pure speed.

kinda on the expensive side though

VELOCIRAPTOR is what i use it rocks i highly recommend it

Well I think I will go with a Western Digital Caviar Black 1000GB SATA II (WD1001FALS) for my external and a Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB SATA II (WD3000GLFS) for my internal.

very nice as i said i couldnt be happier with mine