Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 GB UDMA/100 IDE

[rjfvillarosa]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 GB UDMA/100 IDE Hard Drive

Any comments on the plus or minuses of this hard drive would be very much appreciated, my main concern is durability/length of service.
I have customers pushing me for bigger and bigger hard drives and at the moment and I cannot find any user reviews on this drive.

[glc]

We have been a Western Digital shop for years. Seagate just changed their warranty policy - it's now 5 years across the board for all internal drives. Because of this, we are now buying Seagate drives, when they are available. I haven't worked with that specific drive yet, but the Seagate drives we have used lately have all worked out of the box and are very quiet. I'd say go for it - nobody else is putting a 5 year warranty on IDE drives yet.

[rjfvillarosa]

Thanks GLC, I am in business the same as yourself and one of my suppliers has just offered me a good deal on this drive (OEM), and thats why I asked for this one in particular, coupled with the original reason of customer requests for larger drives.
Thanks for the prompt reply.

[carlmccut]

I have built several systems using Seagate drives. They have performed well in all cases. Just recently I posted a problem I had with a sytem and your suggestion helped rule out hard drive failure or problems. I have been using the SATA 7200 drives. I love them. They are reasonably quiet also!!

[kram 2.0]

Quite...that's for sure. I'm more than happy I went with Seagate on my Hard Drive selection.

kram

[Yuanji]

Originally Posted by glc nobody else is putting a 5 year warranty on IDE drives yet.

actually, the 74 GB raptors have a 5 year warranty OEM anyways

[glc]

The Raptor is not an IDE drive - it's SATA with a near-SCSI price tag (it's based on SCSI technology, not IDE technology).

[kram 2.0]

Originally Posted by glc The Raptor is not an IDE drive - it's SATA with a near-SCSI price tag (it's based on SCSI technology, not IDE technology).

I've read a review somewhere that compared the SCSI 10k and 15k and a WD Raptor (Maximum PC, I think) and it had the Raptors as having a pretty strong showing - however, back on topic, Seagates only make 7.2k or otherwise 10k and 15k SCSI drives. I'd say the 7.2k Seagates are pretty fast enough though.

kram

[rjfvillarosa]

Thank you gentlemen for your comments all of which have been taken on board. I have just ordered twenty of these hard drives and the proof is in the pudding as they say. I will keep you posted as to if I get any back for whatever reason.