Hard Drives > From 200 GB to 300 GB Hard Drives > Serial ATA-300 > up to 60 GBP

Advantages: 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM, fairly quiet, Very fast
Disadvantages: none

...be lost. ( I trust Seagate I never had a failure of their drive out of about 10 i had so far ) Average Read is 165 MB/s Average Write is 136 MB/s I am using my PC to edit movies and i am working on many GB of data on each project. Having drives in Raid 0 mode increased a lot speed of many operations. I have a standard Midi Case and i must say that i can't hear the drives, my PC is very quiet all fans are running on 5V ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, quiet, cheap
Disadvantages: Can get better value with bigger HDDs, may be too small for some

The Samsung Spinpoint has, for the past year or so, been the hard drive of choice for those looking for good value. I needed a new hard drive recently, and I had no reservations whatsoever about getting this. When it arrived, I installed it and was immediately impressed at how much quicker my computer felt to use. Perhaps this was mainly due to the reinstallation of Windows, but nevertheless the hard drive was performing better than my previous ...
...The SATA II interface allows for fast data transfer, and I could copy files about my series of folders with great speed. This model is only 250GB, and so is inevitably not quite as good value as the 500GB model (in terms of £/GB, where it sits at about £0.17/GB compared to £0.12/GB), but I cannot see myself using any more than what is provided, and unless you have an extensive media collection it's probably worth saving the ~£20 and getting this ... Read review

Advantages: Good bit of kit
Disadvantages: None

bought this to go wth my system before xmas. i had a spare sata power from my psu to the hard drive, plugged the sata cable from the hard drive to the mobo. It Worked!! data access speeds are alot faster than ide hard drives, or even sata150 hard drives. using HDTach (google it) i found that the burst rate was 279MB a second just sort of the 300MB/s spec. not sure waht cause the 21MB lack of performace, but i honeslty dont care, i probably wouldnt ... 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