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Western Digital 20Gb ATA 7200 RPM, any good?
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I still only have 10GB in my G4 Sawtooth and need an upgrade desperately but dont have much cash to spend as i will shortly be getting an ibook.
Does anyone know if Western Digital HD's are of a suffescient quality? They are the cheapest ATA drives at maczone.co.uk
Is their a reason for their cheap price?
Thanks
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Originally posted by Sean7:
<STRONG>I still only have 10GB in my G4 Sawtooth and need an upgrade desperately but dont have much cash to spend as i will shortly be getting an ibook.
Does anyone know if Western Digital HD's are of a suffescient quality? They are the cheapest ATA drives at maczone.co.uk
Is their a reason for their cheap price?
Thanks</STRONG>
I like my 30 GB 7200 well enough... it's faster by far over the stock 10 gig that came with my G4 350..
cheers
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Yep, $100 on sale at Comp USA a couple weeks back... I'm quite happy with the drive. (I too had a fear of Western Digital from years past, but they seem to be improving...)
It's not as quiet as an IBM, but not bad either.
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Thanks slipjack. I doubt the noise of the HD could be heared over this fan.
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My experiences with WD have not been good. Not to say their products have not changed over the last few years though. I have worked on many desktop systems with WD drives in them. Reliability is usually a problem due to bad blocks. With that said, I purchased a Dell last year and had to replace the IBM Deskstar 45 and 75 until they finally sent me a Maxtor. So, I am bias towards Maxtor because I have NEVER had a bad block on one....
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