which hard disk to buy?

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I am looking to buy a new ext storage disk. There r a no. of companies viz seagate; samsug; lacie porshe; transcend etc.Which of the product is best in terms of speed of data transfer and storage capacity upto 40/80GB? My budget is 5.5K.Please help.

whoaaaaa... 5.5k...
u can easily get a 400GB seagate in that much...
btw do u want a IDE or a SATA/SATA II hdd????
eich mobo do u hv??

I believe Seagate is the best.

BEST ONES

WESTERN DIGITAL

Maxtor drives

Seagate

No one can give a new Ext HDD in that price.....

maxtor one touch II (about 5900 rs)
# 100 GB external hard drive, 7200 RPM, 16 MB cache
# USB 2.0

^^
Wud i b able to boot from this HDD??

Manshahia said:
^^
Wud i b able to boot from this HDD??

yup

But isn't 5.9k too much for a 100GB HDD? Or maybe its a 2.5inch drive, better suited for external use I guess...

But if portability is not "much" of an issue, it would be far better and more economical to get a maybe 300GB+ external 3.5inch HDD...

which HDD is less noisy ?????

Mine HDD is of HITACHI 80 GB .........
It's making more noise while starting up
like it's more than the noise which the HDD
are making ??????????
can u help me out of this??

Western Digital,Seagate.

AFAIK seagate,hitachi,samsung are best coz i'm also having hitachi (80 gb) frm 1 year and it's more reliable but little noisy .................

Jaas said:
AFAIK seagate,hitachi,samsung are best coz i'm also having hitachi (80 gb) frm 1 year and it's more reliable but little noisy .................

Samsung Sucks, Should avoid. Western Digital can be said to be nearly best amongst.

I recently got a Seagate 250GB Hard Disk (internal type) with an external casing for a total of 4.7k... Perhaps this may be a better option...

Arun