320GB: Deskstar T7K500 or Caviar SE16 ?

I hear that the Barracuda's could be better and that the Samsung T133
models are nothing like as good as models from their previous range.

OTOH Deskstar T7K500 and WD SE16s seem better thought of.

Some people have said that the Western Digital's are usually unreliable
but the SE16's seem to be though of as quite reliable by many people.
Also quieter and cooler than expected.

Similarly, I can remember the IBM DeathStar fiasco and have stayed away
from them even if they are now owned by Hitachi. But a lot of people
are saying the Deskstar T7K500 range is very good even if it is a bit
old now.

So which of the two is the better 320GB drive to get for a home desktop
PC?

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500
http://tinyurl.com/po7k2

Western Digital Caviar SE16
http://www.wdcaviar.com/en/products/...sp?DriveID=196

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I hear that the Barracuda's could be better and that the Samsung T133
models are nothing like as good as models from their previous range.

OTOH Deskstar T7K500 and WD SE16s seem better thought of.

Some people have said that the Western Digital's are usually unreliable
but the SE16's seem to be though of as quite reliable by many people.
Also quieter and cooler than expected.

Similarly, I can remember the IBM DeathStar fiasco and have stayed away
from them even if they are now owned by Hitachi. But a lot of people
are saying the Deskstar T7K500 range is very good even if it is a bit
old now.

So they changed there name Hitach Deskstar,

So which of the two is the better 320GB drive to get for a home desktop
PC?

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500
http://tinyurl.com/po7k2

Western Digital Caviar SE16
http://www.wdcaviar.com/en/products/...sp?DriveID=196

Joe S wrote:

I hear that the Barracuda's could be better and that the Samsung T133
models are nothing like as good as models from their previous range.

You need to get your hearing tested.

OTOH Deskstar T7K500 and WD SE16s seem better thought of.

Wrong with the WDs.

Some people have said that the Western Digital's are usually unreliable
but the SE16's seem to be though of as quite reliable by many people.

What they 'think' is completely irrelevant, what
matters is what the basis for those thoughts are.

Also quieter and cooler than expected.

Still noiser and hotter than the Samsungs.

Similarly, I can remember the IBM DeathStar fiasco and have stayed
away from them even if they are now owned by Hitachi. But a lot of
people are saying the Deskstar T7K500 range is very good even if it
is a bit old now.

So which of the two is the better 320GB drive to get for a home desktop PC?

The Samsung.

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500
http://tinyurl.com/po7k2

Western Digital Caviar SE16
http://www.wdcaviar.com/en/products/...sp?DriveID=196

In article , Joe S
writes

But a lot of people
are saying the Deskstar T7K500 range is very good even if it is a bit
old now.

I've had 6 of the 500GB 7K500s, of which four have failed.

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Joe S wrote:
I hear that the Barracuda's could be better and that the Samsung T133
models are nothing like as good as models from their previous range.

Huh? Are you perhaps confusing ''good'' and ''fast''?

OTOH Deskstar T7K500 and WD SE16s seem better thought of.

Some people have said that the Western Digital's are usually unreliable
but the SE16's seem to be though of as quite reliable by many people.
Also quieter and cooler than expected.

Similarly, I can remember the IBM DeathStar fiasco and have stayed away
from them even if they are now owned by Hitachi. But a lot of people
are saying the Deskstar T7K500 range is very good even if it is a bit
old now.

So which of the two is the better 320GB drive to get for a home desktop
PC?

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500
http://tinyurl.com/po7k2

Western Digital Caviar SE16
http://www.wdcaviar.com/en/products/...sp?DriveID=196

Samsung. Quiet and cool running.

Arno

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Joe S
writes

But a lot of people
are saying the Deskstar T7K500 range is very good even if it is a bit
old now.

I've had 6 of the 500GB 7K500s, of which four have failed.

Pretty convincing. Were they running hot?

Arno

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writes

Pretty convincing. Were they running hot?

Warm, but not hot. They were in an HP NAS device (rackmounted) with
lots of air flow, in a room air-conditioned to 19C. The same device,
which takes 4 drives, had previously had 250GB Maxtor drives in it.

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Pretty convincing. Were they running hot?

Warm, but not hot. They were in an HP NAS device (rackmounted) with
lots of air flow, in a room air-conditioned to 19C. The same device,
which takes 4 drives, had previously had 250GB Maxtor drives in it.

Hmm. A bad sign then. Maxtors are reliable when cool, but unreliable
when hot.

So this indicates the DeskStars are still pretty problematic.

Arno