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OZZY Boy wrote:

> Need to replace a Failed Seagate HD but with all the
> bad reports of 7200.11 drives what now do I get the
> 2 shops that I looked at only had 7200.11 drives..

I prefer samsungs myself. Nice and quiet, and nice a cool.

You usually cant buy them quite as big as the biggest Seagates tho.

I dont usually buy the biggest anyway, poor $/GB.

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 06:51:21 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<> wrote:

>OZZY Boy wrote:
>
>> Need to replace a Failed Seagate HD but with all the
>> bad reports of 7200.11 drives what now do I get the
>> 2 shops that I looked at only had 7200.11 drives..
>
>I prefer samsungs myself. Nice and quiet, and nice a cool.
>
>You usually cant buy them quite as big as the biggest Seagates tho.
>
>I dont usually buy the biggest anyway, poor $/GB.

At the moment, the best $/Gbyte is the Seagate 1.5 Tbyte drive. But I
would not recommend anyone buying one, as mine is very slow. So the
best $/Gbyte for a good drive is the Seagate 1 Tbyte ones.

Stephen Worthington wrote
> Rod Speed <> wrote
>> OZZY Boy wrote

>>> Need to replace a Failed Seagate HD but with all the
>>> bad reports of 7200.11 drives what now do I get the
>>> 2 shops that I looked at only had 7200.11 drives..

>> I prefer samsungs myself. Nice and quiet, and nice a cool.

>> You usually cant buy them quite as big as the biggest Seagates tho.

>> I dont usually buy the biggest anyway, poor $/GB.

> At the moment, the best $/Gbyte is the Seagate 1.5 Tbyte drive.
> But I would not recommend anyone buying one, as mine is very slow.
> So the best $/Gbyte for a good drive is the Seagate 1 Tbyte ones.

Not quite, the WD is a little cheaper.
http://www.google.com/products?q=1tb...rive&scoring=p

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:28:51 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<> wrote:

>Stephen Worthington wrote
>> Rod Speed <> wrote
>>> OZZY Boy wrote
>
>>>> Need to replace a Failed Seagate HD but with all the
>>>> bad reports of 7200.11 drives what now do I get the
>>>> 2 shops that I looked at only had 7200.11 drives..
>
>>> I prefer samsungs myself. Nice and quiet, and nice a cool.
>
>>> You usually cant buy them quite as big as the biggest Seagates tho.
>
>>> I dont usually buy the biggest anyway, poor $/GB.
>
>> At the moment, the best $/Gbyte is the Seagate 1.5 Tbyte drive.
>> But I would not recommend anyone buying one, as mine is very slow.
>> So the best $/Gbyte for a good drive is the Seagate 1 Tbyte ones.
>
>Not quite, the WD is a little cheaper.
>http://www.google.com/products?q=1tb...rive&scoring=p
>

Interesting, it seems to have come down a bit recently, and in NZ too.
Competition working how it is supposed to!