Hard Drives > Primary Hard Drives > Less than 150 GB > From 6000 rpm to 7500 rpm

Advantages: Fast, completely silent
Disadvantages: None.

...Western Digital and Hitachi. Seagate have to be the only manufacturer who has never let me down and offer completely silent computer usage. I found the Western Digital drive to be very noisy. After buying one of these hard drives sometime ago for my main machine I decided again to purchase another one for another machine in the house. As stated the hard drives never make a sound and both offer high speed and stability. I never suffered any data ...
...same for all of the Seagate range, particularly the older models. I owned a Seagate Medallist for some time and this drive become very noisy in its older days. If you're looking for a quick small capacity hard drive such as this one then go ahead and buy a Seagate Barracuda! If your motherboard supports it though I'd certainly look into the SATA version of this drive and read up on some reviews, there's a good chance that the SATA version will share ... Read review

Advantages: Maximizes the amount of data vs the cost of the product
Disadvantages: heat issues, cord connectivity, and small installation problems.

...but I honestly only order Maxtor for my hard drives. Now the only downside to the Maxtor 500 GB is that it is an external drive that, if not careful, can overheat and cause connectivity problems, transfer speed issues, or just annoyance from when the usb gets knocked out. That being said, if you can get past the downside of have an external I would recommend this product to anyone not using a Mac. The only reason I do not recommend this to Mac owners ... Read review

Advantages: memory, reliability, quality
Disadvantages: size, sound

...The Product - The Seagate pushbutton backup external hard drive 400 GB is a very sturdy and functional machine which gives more than good value for money (depending on the time you buy). Push button backup technology is fantastic although a little time consuming, the general idea is that a complete copy of your computer will be saved onto you external hard drive, if and when your computer messes things up (as will eventually be the case)then never ...
...and size is everything, the seagate hard drive has been designed to give the consumer what they want at a cheap affordable price (much to the buyers delight) setting up the external hard drive on you computer is just too easy, plug the mains in, connect the usb into your computer then press the power/backup button on the front of your hard drive and the job is well and trully a good un'. of course your computer will automatically detect your device, ... Read review

Advantages: Portable, easy to use, never failed on me yet!
Disadvantages: Perhaps only the disc size, but it has taken me 2 years to fill it!

Wester Digital, a respected brand name, and i agree! I have owned the unit now for around 2 years, and have 0 problems. My internal hard drive has died on me twice but my external one, never! This 80gb HDD is perfect for storing large files, home movies, photo albums, music etc. It's ideal when transfering data from one place to another, simply unplug it, plug it in elsehwre and hey presto! It supports drag & drop so moving files couldn't be easier. ...
...2.0 connection to your pc, mac, server etc. It is easily recognised by each operating system and i have yet to find one that doesn't support the unit. Plug it in, wait around 30secs and it's up and running. Can be stored horizontally, and if you have 3 like me, you can stack them perfectly, or store them vertically with the feet attahcments that come with the unit. Quick response time from pushing the ''On'' button which in itself gives off a nice ... Read review

Advantages: When working - Fast, convenient, massive capacity.
Disadvantages: Not reliable

Started off very well. Plug and play as promised, via USB. Very easy to use, quick access : very simple to create folders and upload all those things you want to backup (you do keep backups, don't you?!). So on went all my MP3s, pictures, software, in case of a disk crash on my PC No problems for the first 8 months. Then it stopped working. Looked like it just wouldn't power up (green light only faintly flickered). Try to take back to shop under ...
...NO data transfer. The word 'limited' is the key here. Overall very dissatisfied. A so-called high quality product which has proved to be very shoddy with no after-sales backup. Oh, and it came with a free Trojan virus. Having read many other reviews for the same product, the above I have described is not uncommon. I wouldn't buy another one. ... Read review