Hitachi Deskstar 160GB ATA 133 8MB

Drive has 2 sets of jumpers and a chart, Doesn't play well with other CD's and hard drives. If your setting up more than 1 primary drive, good luck! I was barely able to set this drive up with 1 other drive and 2 cd's. after hours of trial and error. later drive failed, returned for replacement, went good, but 2 year later after running kill disk on drive, locked up PC, and Drive wont boot.

Other than Quantum drives that are no longer in bussiness, would recommend Seagate. Have a couple now for over a year, and they are both solid. no weird'ness.

sincerely,

Larry Stapleton

Sr. Engineering Designer.

PC Tech.

The Hitachi Deskstar 26140 (160GB) hard drive has been an overall huge improvement from my previous hard drive - that was a Samsung SV120h or something (it's so bad in comparison that I can't even remember it's name).

I can't believe I rated that hard drive so highly, really; how I rated it is all wrong - compared to the performance I get from this hard drive.

*The biggest difference between this hard drive and my previous hard drive is the temperature. Sure, I now also have a hard drive cooler for my new hard drive, but I don't think a simple cooler is going to make up for the difference between 23c and 230c!*

The seek time is also a lot better. The hard drive is now up-to-date with recommended specifications. It has a 7200rpm spindle speed, which is what most good and new computers come installed with. However, it does go higher than hard drives ready-installed in how it uses digital, dual signing.

Its standard specifications also include PATA, an IDE interface, BUT is an Ultra ATA130, which is an improvement from my previous ATA100!

The hard drive is very reliable, and I have no regrets on the money I spent to buy it!

I know I have owned it for less than a week, but I can tell by how it is performing now, that it is not going to have half the problems my other hard drive did; even in future years to come!