western digital, seagate, or maxtor?
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I've used all three a great many times and all three are just as good.\n\nI actually have 4 hard drives in my PCs, 600 gigs, 2 WD's and 2 Maxtor's.\n\nI would just go with whatever you can get the best price on.
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If this the RAID array is going to be for your primary boot volume and you're simply looking for top loading speeds, the Raptors are your best bet.  If you're looking for maximum capacity for your dollars, get the 7.2K drives.
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USB hard drives are the most convenient, but Firewire is faster and slightly more expensive.  Check out manufacturers like www.iomega.com, www.woverine.com, www.pocketec.com.  www.lacie.com, etc.  Tiger Direct and Priority Electronics have competitive prices.  The price is also dependent upon capacity, as larger means more expensive.
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what you are looking to do is called drive imaging. it will allow you to make an exact, bootable image of your old hard drive and put it on your new hard drive while leaving you all the extra space. Maxtor and seagate come with software that lets you do this. I'm not sure about the other manufacturers. an alternative is to use backup software that allows you to do this reguarly. Acronis true image or norton ghost will help put you on the path of regular back ups. My recommendation is to buy a maxtor hard drive at staples and get the extra warranty. make sure you know what kind of hard  drive your computer will take first. open the case and look at the cables going into your current hard drive . If you see a four wire cable (Red, Black, Black, yellow) and a ribbon cable with 40-80 wires in it you have Parallel ATA hard drive (PATA) if both cables are thin and round with only a few wires in them you've got SATA (serial ATA) make sure you know this before you go to the store
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Using a pen/thumb drive is the most efficient way. They some in different capacities. You should get the one with the largest capacity if you plan to move huge files.\n\nNote: This suggestion is for data files only. You can never move O/S or system files or even programs.
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Wow, those are horrible options.  Here is the program you want to use.  If you like it, buy it.  It's a great program!\n\nDiskdata  (see link below)
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Nothing free...You can purchase a 100/160 or 250 gig internal or external drive for around $100.00 on sale...much better solution and far more security.
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ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe. It is a good board. It runs around $120. I have had excellent luck with Hitachi hard drives and they have excellent performance. 400GB Hitachi will run about $175.
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and the problem you are having is?????????...more info is needed\nactually the fact that its a Seagate HDD is probably part of the problem;)\nwe only use Western Digital HDD's
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JUst change the HDD with another brand type HDD. Try Western Digital, they are pretty good at hard drives.
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NTFS is a better option . dont stop
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just buy a good drive, maxtor ( now seagate ) or western digital\nmake sure the interface is the same ( it's probaly PATA and not SATA is you got a 33gb hardrive ), most all are 7200 rpm\nyour biggest problem will be weather or not your bios can handle a drive over 137Gb if you get one that big, you also did not mention your OS, and what you be foramtting the drive to ( FAT32 or NTFS ).
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there are companys who can data recovery on those drive and should only be considered if the data is very very important and irreplacable if it is something you want to consider google it; if not just start rebuilding bigger and better than before
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StorageReview.com is a pretty good resource for checking out hard drives. Rates them based on performance, reliability, etc.\n\nhttp://www.storagereview.com/\n\nMaxtor in general seems to be average to good.
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I prefer Seagate (quieter and longer warranty, 5 years vs. 3). Of course, if you need to make use of the warranty on a hard drive, you're already in trouble.
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Yes, you will not have to worry about compatibility unless you were to pickup a laptop model instead of a standard desktop hard drive.  I would get a 7200rpm.  Personally I would recommend a Seagate Barracuda as they are known for being fairly quiet.  Save up enough money for the right size hard drive so you don't have to replace it in a year again.
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Maxtor has recently been bought out by Seagate, iam not sure what this will mean for the brand as a whole.\n\nMost drives on the market today are fairly reliable. I would however reccommend that to stay away from a brand called Exelstor.\n\nIf you have got some money to burn the Western digital WD X 150 is a good buy (15000 rpm's, 16MB cache, seek time is abit high though and i don't thinks it's going to be all that quiet)\nhttp://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=190   \n\nOn the IDE end go for anything Seagate Barracuda that runs at 7200.9 rpm, has an 8MB buffer with a low seek time, 8.5ms shouldn't be too bad.