which hard disk to buy?

[mhatre2004]

I am looking to buy a new ext storage disk. There r a no. of companies viz seagate; samsug; lacie porshe; transcend etc.Which of the product is best in terms of speed of data transfer and storage capacity upto 40/80GB? My budget is 5.5K.Please help.

[Pathik]

whoaaaaa... 5.5k...
u can easily get a 400GB seagate in that much...
btw do u want a IDE or a SATA/SATA II hdd????
eich mobo do u hv??

[Tech Geek]

I believe Seagate is the best.

[wizrulz]

BEST ONES

WESTERN DIGITAL

Maxtor drives

Seagate

[47shailesh]

No one can give a new Ext HDD in that price.....

[digiFriend]

maxtor one touch II (about 5900 rs)
# 100 GB external hard drive, 7200 RPM, 16 MB cache
# USB 2.0

[Manshahia]

^^
Wud i b able to boot from this HDD??

[Tech Geek]

Originally Posted by Manshahia

^^
Wud i b able to boot from this HDD??

yup

[goobimama]

But isn't 5.9k too much for a 100GB HDD? Or maybe its a 2.5inch drive, better suited for external use I guess...

But if portability is not "much" of an issue, it would be far better and more economical to get a maybe 300GB+ external 3.5inch HDD...

[Manshahia]

which HDD is less noisy ?????

[Jaas]

Mine HDD is of HITACHI 80 GB .........
It's making more noise while starting up
like it's more than the noise which the HDD
are making ??????????
can u help me out of this??

[gaurav_indian]

Western Digital,Seagate.

[Jaas]

AFAIK seagate,hitachi,samsung are best coz i'm also having hitachi (80 gb) frm 1 year and it's more reliable but little noisy .................

[premsharma]

Originally Posted by Jaas

AFAIK seagate,hitachi,samsung are best coz i'm also having hitachi (80 gb) frm 1 year and it's more reliable but little noisy .................

Samsung Sucks, Should avoid. Western Digital can be said to be nearly best amongst.

[sakumar79]

I recently got a Seagate 250GB Hard Disk (internal type) with an external casing for a total of 4.7k... Perhaps this may be a better option...

Arun