Multi Media Hard Drives

isofa

Actually I did heard about those Barracuda's having problems a few months ago, one assumes they've sorted the problem...

aliEnRIK

basmic wrote: »

I was probably tired when replying, lol.

Seagate own Maxtor.

Seagate are going through a very bad patch right now - very much like the Hitachi Deathstars, sometime back in 2001(?).

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=11972&view=by_date_ascending

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128092&st=1140

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/18/barracuda_firmware_upgrade_and_recovery/

You'll note the links are of high quality sources.

Cant argue with that

Mine are the external style ~



I use 3 with no problems whatsoever. My dad uses one running flat out too

poppy_f1

i have this one http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=221816
and think its great, never had a issue with it

siamese0109

Thanks for the replies and you've given me a couple more to look at now as well. I guess I need to search for decent prices away from clickadeal.com as nobody seems to have heard of them - not even Google apart from the links to their website!