Hard Drives > Less than 150 GB Hard Drives > 60 GBP to 120 GBP

Advantages: Reliable and fast
Disadvantages: Noisy

I personally bought this drive as I am a gamer and as fellow gamers know the faster the better. My previous drive was a 7200rpm and boy did I notice the difference in speed once I started using the raptor. Faster access to my programs and files, quicker boot-up. According to the WD website these are one of the most reliable drives on the market and I tend to agree. I am currently purchasing a second one of these. PROS: Very fast and very reliable. ...
...plain to see. 1.5 Gb/s transfer rate and 16 MB Cache. This drive is also a SATA drive, which I find is less messy inside the pc then the chunky IDC cables. Can use one of 2 power supplies (standard or sata power supply) CONS: I found the drive to be very noisy at times but this may be down to needing some king of vibration control, which is very cheap. It may also be a little light for some people on the capacity front (74GB) but if been used ... Read review

Advantages: Super fast, the best on the market
Disadvantages: Maximum size is 160GB, very expensive.

Brilliant hard drive. Granted its not the biggest, but I've used this one for about 2 years now, the speed is unbeliveable. I don't know much about the installation process as I didn't do it, but I can tell you it didn't take the guy long to get it all running properly. The disk is super fast, WD has the only 10000 RPM drives on the market, as far as I know. I ran some tests comparing this against a Seagate Barracuda 7200, In pretty general use ...
...at gathering information and presenting it. This is a very good drive, but I belive you have to experience the speed to actually belive it. I'd suggest giving one of these a try if your looking for a new hard drive! However, the downside is the price. If you go onto a computer website and sort the hard disks by price, you'll see that even the 36GB Raptor is alot more expensive than some 150GB drives. This drive isn't really a budget drive for someone ... Read review

Advantages: External, Firewire Interface, Reliable
Disadvantages: Needs its own power source, No passthrough

...high speed, portable drive from IOMEGA has a fair bit going for it. Good either as just a space extension for a stationary computer, or as a way of tranferring large amounts of data between remote machines quickly, IOMEGA are well known for the reliability of their drives. Our office obtained three of these drives back in late 2003 for approximately £200, but we only had two machines with Firewire ports, so I got lucky and took one home for my own ...
...the Drivers, and also the IOMEGA QuickSync utility. A touchless backup system which will quietly ensure that sections of your hard-drive you have specified are backed up safely. I don't have much experience with this software as I already have more comprehensive backup systems in place. The thing that I just love about this drive, is once you have what you want on it (MP3 collection, Movies, Games), you can just grab it (and it's cables) and then ... Read review

Advantages: Fast with large files, quiet fast with small files, quiet, doesn't struggle with large files.
Disadvantages: May need defragging alot.

I have this drive pre installed in my computer and the first thing i realised was that it was extremely FAST; i had tested the drive on a hard drive benchmarking program called 'HDTach'. This is as on my HP'm7635', using this drive i got a burst speed of 210 MB/s and a average read rate of 70MB/s; both are extremely fast. I also realised that this drive was extremely quiet; being installed in my media cennter PC it wasn't exactly a suprise though. ...
...the context of everyday computng this hard drive is very fast, windows loads up very quickly. You can force large files down the hard drive and it wont struggle; though i still recommend that you defragmentate the drive on a regular basis for optimal speed. To expand on my statement of what fast is, i mean to say that the drive is able to handle copying of large files such as movies very quickly. The drive is also fast in seeking files from a random ... Read review

Advantages: 120GB, Good price, Extremely easy to use.
Disadvantages: Takes up 2 USB slots.

...drive also comes with some Maxtor software designed to ease back-up and synching of data. For this purpose I would recommend just downloading Microsoft's SynchToy which is available as a free download and in my opinion is more powerful and easier to use than the software that comes with the drive. Another useful feature of the included software is the ability to encrypt and password-protect the data on the drive. I would definitely recommend this ... Read review