Hard Drive Suggestions

[Chris from Washington]

Would like to get another Hard Drive for my computer, what's good these days?

I've heard good things about Seagate's, went to newegg and they have all sorts of OEM ones.

What specs should I look for?

[Justin from Detroit1]

seagate does make excellent ones. Also, Newegg is the only place I buy coputer stuff from, they have excellent prices and damn good service. I received a stick of RAM that would not work with my montherboard (my MB doesn't like double sided RAM appareantly) and they had no problems helping me with it.

[Chris from Washington]

Ya I like newegg got my DVD Writer from them, been working great since day 1.

I'm guesson HDD's the larger the buffer the better?

[MrSo0h0o]

i like maxtor.. and western digital.. but i hear that western digital is turnin to shit..

[Justin from Detroit1]

I can't really see going over 120GB, but that's just me. Depends what you use your comp for. I have 2,018 MP3s (all legal backups of CDs that I own :) ) and they only take up 8 GB.

[Jonathan]

I prefer Seagate as well. The Barracuda drives are great, they come with a 5 year warranty as well.

[Chris from Washington]

I'm looking at those right now,

OEM vs Retail, besides the box it comes in. What's the diff?

[MrSo0h0o]

retail comes with the cable to connect it to the motherboard, usually comes with a utility CD..

OEM is the drive and nothing else

[Chris from Washington]

I can't really see going over 120GB, but that's just me. Depends what you use your comp for. I have 2,018 MP3s (all legal backups of CDs that I own :) ) and they only take up 8 GB.

I'm looking for something around 120gb. mostly want a larger drive to hold what I rip off my DVR to burn onto a DVD. Tired of having to always watch disk space before I start the rip of the next item.

[MrSo0h0o]

get 2 120GB HD's.. one for music, applications, etc and one for dvd ripping