I be Looking to buy a new 7200RPM hard drive and I wanted to know what everyone thinks of their own drive.

Comment please, good or bad!

I love my 40 GB Maxtor 7200 rpm drive. And it does very well on PCMark HDD scores.

If I were buying right now, I would probably give the WD special edition 8 MB buffer drive a whirl.

Ive got the 80GB WD "special Edition." and it does very well.....and for about 108 i think on Newegg, Id go for it.

if that WD comes in ATA133 then go for it! 8MB buffer is sweet!

I have the WD Special Editon 80gig also. I love mine. I also have a 60 gig maxtor and I know this sounds crazy but I can tell the difference between the 2. Im not knocking the maxtor. It rocks to. Just saying I can tell the difference.

Boot drive is WD special edition 80 gig.
fer storage, two IBM 120GXP 80 giggers

Man, I still remember when Quantum drives were the dog's bollocks... Ah well, times change.

I have no actual preference at this stage (although I have a WD 40 & 60gig), but I'm sure that'll change too...

Holy, I'd have thought that more people would want to give their 2cents.......

I love my WD 80GB I hope to get another soon as mine is almost filled

I used to be a staunch Quantum user, but seeing how they are being made by Maxtor now, I'm not too sure if I want to keep getting them...

I usually stick with Maxtor and Western Digital. They've worked great for me so far.

As a side note, I Also realized that my xbox has a seagate drive in there

All these numbers...ATA133, ATA100, ATA66, ATA33...those all refer to the maximum speed that data can be bursted off of the disk controller. Most standard 5400rpm IDE hard drives, under ideal conditions (i.e. no filesystem, no data, perfectly sequential access) can read at about 35MB/sec. Once you start writing at the same time, or have a filesystem, or have a fragmented filesystem (which increases the number of random accesses) that number begins to plummet. So...there's really not much of a difference between ATA66, ATA100, and ATA33 at all.

Hard drives in use at this momen in my old machine:

2 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 20GB

Hard drive waiting for my new rig to be returned from the mobo manufacturer:

1 Western Digital 120GB SE
(It's also gonna get the two 20's on a raid 0)

Hard drives sitting in the closet:

2 6GB Quantum Fireballs
1 3.2GB WD
1 320MB Seagate SCSI HD (hehe..... it's REAL OLD!)

They all run just fine too. I'm thinking about putting the two 6 GBs on a raid 0 to install my OS on. They're only 5400, but I figured I'd still see good performance. I kinda prefer keeping my OS, apps, data and temp files on their own drives.... or at least partitions so fragmentation is more easily managed... not to mention keeping any possible corruption from affecting everything (saved my rear once during a big design job, my OS got hosed, but my data partition was easily accessible).

I'm happy to announce my happiness with my 80GB SE drive from WD... at the lans I couldn't even tell when the idiots were foolin around on my drive.

i have dual Maxtor 40gig drives, i love ´em!

I've got a couple of Maxtor ATA/133's 60GB running raid 0 that have worked very well for me. I also have a couple WD ATA/100 40GB in there that for backup that have served me well.

I just received my third IBM Deskstar 60GB drive back from the RMA center. Very fast drive, just likes to crash about every 4 months. I'm not even breaking the bag on this one. Straight to ebay this time.

i got me a shiny new 80 gig WD SE drive after xmas. I like it, its so quiet! and that 8MB buffer does help in moving large files. after that, it dont matter

I think Maxtor and Seagate are alright, but for my situation, WD had me nailed.

I like WD. I currently own A 20gig, 2 30gigs, a 40 gig & an 80 gig. I've never had a minutes trouble with any of them. I had a Maxtor once and it was the only drive I've ever had go bad, but that was many years ago and I wouldn't hold that against todays products.

I got a Maxtor... I was just trying one out myself, normally i would go with WD. to small for me only 30 gig but i couldn't spend any more money and i HAD to get off one the old compaq.

I have 2 WD 60GB hard drives in my comp.
I also have a 15GB IBM hard drive in my linux workstation, but it seems to make a distinct tick on power-off(sounds like the heads hitting the disks), but it is still trouble-free.