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quote:Originally posted by anarres
With regards as to which drive to buy, my only advice is to get a recognised name and to avoid seagate like the plague. Maybe others can comment on performance, but IMO seagate are the only ones to stand out as terrible of the branded ones...
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I had a Western Digital ATA drive fail in a similar manner last May (I had OS and data partitions too). Replaced it with a 60GB Hitachi SATA and a 10GB Maxtor ATA. I use the 10GB drive for the OS only (WinXP) and the 60GB drive is partitioned for data, games, etc.
The idea came from a co-worker (software engineer) who had problems with his drives failing in OS partitions. He thought it was due to the fact that the computer constantly needs to access/read the OS portion of the drive. Seems to work very well for me and I probably won't be too put out if one dies due to the price of HD's these days.