Hard Drives > From 300 GB to 450 GB Hard Drives > ATA-100

Advantages: Fast, Cheap,Reliable
Disadvantages: a little hot, a little noisy

As a computer geek I used many Hard Drives drives until this one and I'm finally satisfied. As a multitasking user i open many programs at the same time: antivirus, internet, multiple downloads, winamp and even gaming at the same time and often I even game sometimes and this hdd really does a good job. The 320GB (290 Gb actually) are sufficient for storage and comes at a very decent price. The wd hard drives are really reliable, not a single problem ...
...are insane: 80 Mb max at data read and 75 Mb max at data write, about 13 ms access time. The temperatures are pretty hot in summer, I recommend cooler. It is a little noisy but are far more noisier hard drives on the market Stability: 4 full days of massive downloads, in summer is enough for you?! Overall: great hdd drive ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, many models available, 5 year warranty, NCQ, 16MB buffer, perpendicular recording
Disadvantages: None as I'm aware

...fashion. Seagate also provides a 5 year warranty whereas the competition doesn't. Seagate support is very good, they replaced one with a snapped SATA connector (physical damage) even though they claim do not replace units with mechanical damage. Overall you can't go wrong with this drive. ... Read review

Advantages: very fast access and least time to scan data
Disadvantages: write speed has gone down

If you are looking for a rugged hdd support with tonnes of space and miles of memory to go , i hope this is the best buy you can make . The weight is ok and access speed is terrefic. donot forget to make proper partition od 80 / 120/120/.... also you can use this HDD to record live TV show if you have good tv tuner card as the access and write speed is good you can have the ease of recording the best of you online shows. If you are buying from ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, reliable & high size.
Disadvantages: Over heated alot when put threw its paces.

...this drive as I trust western digital as all my drives but 1 or 2 are all there brand and with no issues. However, apart from the high capacity, the speed it offers & technical support with some utility tools on WD website, I must rate this as adequate. The reasons are. Due to the high storage size, the head it generates is much higher than most hard drives. I was currently decoding & re encoding audio to video on the drive where it suddenly froze.. ...
...minutes it would not show in boot up & really slowed down the boot up process because if it. The reason I found out was, it really overheated. Now, hard drives do overheat if you don’t keep them clean & maintained, such as disk keepers & so forth to keep the drive running in its prime. But its new, so this was not the cause. It was just generating a lot of heat when put threw its paces as encoding does. So, I had to purchase a cooler for it & so ... Read review

Advantages: Low nose, low vibration, fairly cool for a 400gb drive
Disadvantages: Not as cool or quiet as the HA250JC, but has 150gb more storage

...the now-legendary but smaller HA250JC, Samsung have updated their product line with this excellent 400gb drive. Although it is a 7200rpm drive (unlike the HA250JC which is 5400rpm) this drive still runs remarkably cool for a 400gb drive, and with very little of the rotational vibration that usually mars 7200rpm drives and whcih can lead to "hum" when installed in a TiVo. When "quiet" mode is enabled (using Samsung's HUTIL utility) the seek noise ... Read review