Hard drive

[undyingking]

I need to get a new hard drive for my PC. I've not bought one for around 3 years, and that mfr (Maxtor) doesn't even exist any more... any of you bought one recently, or otherwise kept up with devpts? Who's good these days?

Internal drives mostly seem to be SATA now, which am I right in thinking isn't back-compatible with my ATA motherboard? But maybe I should be considering an external one instead -- how practical is it to use such as an actual working drive, rather than just for backup etc?

Any thoughts / recs / etc welcome!

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Manufacturer-wise I recommend Seagate. My previous machine had a pair of Seagate Barracuda drives as a RAID-0 array. That's the low-reliability way round, where it's twice as fast but either disk failing will screw your data. And after years of extremely heavy use, the whole setup is still working as well as the day I bought it.

(Several of my earlier machines also had Seagate drives, which also never failed.)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Thanks!