Whichever one you go for, watch out from where you buy them ..... My recent experiences trying to buy a Samsung 2.0TB drive : Ebuyer - seem to buy grey imports and only come with a 1 year warranty on=20 many/most of them. Amazon - sell genuine UK Samsung drives with a 3 year warranty but stick=20 them in an "envelope" with zero protection for postage. Scan - sell a mix of both grey import (1 year warranty) and genuine uk (3=20 year warranty) - offer their own 3 years on the ones that are grey imports. All the Seagate drives I've had over the past 5 years have failed with bad= =20 sectors / seek errors. I've vowed never to touch another Seagate drive=20 again. My Samsungs have been pretty reliable. Dom ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Oli Glaser" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 3:02 PM Subject: [OT] Hard drvie advice needed > 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 > > > --=20 > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist=20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .