Between my computers (almost all laptops), and friends' laptops, I go =20 through a lot of hard drives. My priority is reliability. I won't =20 touch Seagate anymore. Lots of failures! Toshiba has been good, as =20 well as WD and Hitachi. Watch out for some of the drives re-branded =20 by laptop manufacturers, as those can be Seagate or some other lesser =20 brand. For performance, newegg lists seek times, latency, etc for the =20 ones they carry. Cheers, -Neil. Quoting Oli Glaser : > Hi All, > > I have a sneaky feeling that my hard drive will be an ex hard drive > soon, so I am going to pre-empt disaster and but a new one now. > My current one is a 5400 rpm SATA 2.5" 160GB drive by Toshiba: > http://bit.ly/iJMH2q > > > The one I am considering (or something like it) is a 7200rpm 250GB one: > http://bit.ly/jH5n6c > > I don't care too much about cost or capacity - my main concern is with > raw speed and reliability. It will be on 24/7 like this one has been for > the last 2 years and used constantly. > So, any advice? Who make the best drives nowadays? > I will (probably) be buying in the next hour or so (would like it > tomorrow if possible) so some quick thoughts would be great. > TIA > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .