Hard disk Price Reviews

**mehargags** · 03-02-2005

Hey guyz Jst chk out some new Price List for the Hard Drives & comment & review the models Listed.
The High Capacity HDD's really neeed to be Reviewd- performance as well as PRICE Wise

so have a look at the Attached pick

Thx

**Chaos** · 03-02-2005

Seems pretty good. The high end ones are more expensive cos of larger platter sizes. The Maxtor 300GB/16MB model looks really good.

**asky** · 03-02-2005

which Dealer is giving these drives at these prices?
coz i just got a price of 12500 for the maxtor 300GB/16MB cache in mumbai.

**richard** · 03-02-2005

I bought a Maxtor 250GB IDE 8mb cache on 27 Jan for 7900/- and today I bought a Maxtor SATA 160GB for 5000/- at Lamington Road - are your prices Delhi prices ? I thought Mumbai would have been cheaper than Delhi.

**Switch** · 03-02-2005

The best Price : Performance i belive is the Seagate 200 Gigs... Both Sata and IDE are superbly priced...

**richard** · 03-02-2005

Originally Posted by Switch

The best Price : Performance i belive is the Seagate 200 Gigs... Both Sata and IDE are superbly priced...

When I bought the Maxtor 160GB SATA drive today I was given a price of about 200/- more for an equavalent Seagate.

**siddhesh20** · 03-02-2005

r u sure about these prices cause just now my friend bought seagate sata 200 gb /8mb cache for 6800 from L-road and i am planning to buy it for my cousin's PC
and if yes where i can find them in mumbai for these prices??

**mehargags** · 04-02-2005

THESE ARE PRICES FOR -- DELHI --ONLY

sorry i dont know how but i missed that to mention initially

**Switch** · 04-02-2005

i hope that these prices are correct... I am thinking of buying an 200 gigger and makeing it an external drive along with a 900 rupee enclosure... Now wouldnt that be cheap...

**richard** · 04-02-2005

Originally Posted by Switch

i hope that these prices are correct... I am thinking of buying an 200 gigger and makeing it an external drive along with a 900 rupee enclosure... Now wouldnt that be cheap...

F.Y.I. Before I bought the Maxtor 250GB I had initially bought the Seagate 200GB (I had it for only one day) and had at first kept it in an external Rs 2500/- USB2 enclosure but with this setup I was getting some timeout messages when I moved data to this drive and I used to get file copy failed messages. I dont think my external case's HDD controller could handle this large drive - it handles my Hitachi 80GB without any problems. I then transferred the drive to my computer but was not too pleased with its performance and as the Maxtor 250GB Maxline Plus II is an Enterprise class drive it was no contest as far as I was concerned - it was Maxtor for me.

**Pagladashu** · 04-02-2005

@ Richard and slightly OT

I am getting a 3.5 HDD enclosure (external, USB2) and plan to put a 80 GB HDD in it. Any tips about how to go about it? You are an experienced user.

**richard** · 04-02-2005

Originally Posted by Pagladashu

I am getting a 3.5 HDD enclosure (external, USB2) and plan to put a 80 GB HDD in it. Any tips about how to go about it?

Get the best enclosure you can find - I have seen some really pathetic enclosures and some nice ones. I have 3 of which one is a 2.5" self powered - this is small and fits in a shirt pocket and can handle upto a 80GB notebook hard disk - very convenient to carry around.

Format the drive in the case - I am from the old school of thought that said that drives work best when used on the controller used for formatting.

I have installed Win98SE on one of my external drives and I can boot from this drive.

Download this Freeware (thanks to PCB from THAT other forum

) Karen's Drive Replicator which does backups/synchronizing of drives - get it from.....

http://www.karenware.com/progs/ptreplicator-setup.exe

mlnunes · 04-02-2005

hmm...80GB seagate SATA looks good for 3100/-
its time to get 1..i think
or is it better to go for a maxtor?
one problem is tat maxtor isn't readily available...
its either seagate or samsung usually.

**Aces170** · 04-02-2005

Seagate with its performance and 5 yr warranty its a no brainer. Samsung though their drives are not that good their service is nothing short of excellent.