New 40GB HD Kinda whines on a Win98 PC Dare to use on Amiga?

[motorollin]

The drive I bought was 20GB, which is vast in Amiga terms IMO. I don't recall ever seeing them on their web site, but Matthew from Amigakit new I was after one so he let me know when he had some. If you contact him directly he can let you know if he still has any, and if not he can probably get you one.

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moto

[Piru]

@marcfrick2112

Do you have any recommendations as to HD brands?

I have 4 Seagate Barracuda 7200s (120, 200, 2 x 400 GB) and they are all totally silent. No problems so far, and all but 120GB have 5 year warranty. Ok, the warranty doesn't cover the dataloss if the drive should ever fail, but the fact the manufacturer is giving all their drives the 5 year warranty is quite assuring.

Whatever manufacturer / model drive you get, always at least try to backup your most important data regularily. Catastrophic HW failure is just one way to lose data, the filesystem can get corrupted or files can be deleted by accident.

Regarding buying 3rd party HDDs (ebay or not): I personally wouldn't do that. There is no way of knowing what condition the drive is at, it could fail the next week and seller is long gone by then.

[tonyvdb]

Segate Drives are the best and most reliable. Ive been using Segate drives for my video Editing for years and only ever had one go bad. Quantum Atlus drives also seem good.

[srg86]

I think it's interesting that Maxtor has such a bad reputation, I've never had troubles with any of my maxtor drives which date back from 1995 to 2005.