Hard Drives

[Elesirdur]

Anyone have any experience with the Segate Barracuda 7200.10 line of hard drives?

I'll be upgrading my entire PC soon enough but thinking of getting a new hard drive in the interim as mine old one's been seeking pretty slowly.

[Mifaco]

Designing a hard drive with a window is not as easy as you may think.

[Skyylya]

I have a seagate 320gb 7200.10 16mb and i'm happy with it. it's not loud and it does it's job fast enough.

Don't buy it at a retail store though unless you want a sore ass, order it off a site like newegg or something. Can refer to the other topic on hard drives if you wanna see other good options like samsung spinpoint or the western digi raptor.

[Elesirdur]

Good point Skyylya, I'll go look that thread up.

[evilbau]

Anyone have any experience with the Segate Barracuda 7200.10 line of hard drives?

I'll be upgrading my entire PC soon enough but thinking of getting a new hard drive in the interim as mine old one's been seeking pretty slowly.

they are fine drives

[GSDragoon]

I've had good experiences with WD and Seagate. Bad experiences with Maxor.

[Isiolia]

I've had good experiences with Seagate in general. It's usually the brand I buy given the choice, but WD is pretty solid as well.

I've had terrible luck with IBM/Hitachi drives, as has most of the interwebs. Not just the Deathstars either, even my old 2GB SCSI from my Powertower Pro (Mac clone for you young'uns).

[Epical]

I'm actually on a Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10 right now, and I love it. Only thing I regret is not partitioning my HDD... I just have C:\. =\

[Skyylya]

You can re-partition it. I don't remember the name of the program, but there is a way to do it without re-installing windows.

And if you don't wanna do that, just back up pertinant files then re-install windows and partition it then.

Doesn't take to long I don't think.

[Epical]

Sorry for the mini-threadjack OP, but if you can give me the name of that program, that would be great. O_O

[Skyylya]

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Go there, Gparted allows you to create partitions without reformatting and re-installing.

Although, you DEFINITELY want to back up your files before doing this. While it's not a high risk to lose files, it is possible. I don't believe this program can merge partitions or anything, but it should let you create one out of the existing drive.

I've never used it as i partitioned my drives when i first installed XP, so unfortunately I can't give you any input on how to use the program but there should be guides on that site.

Also, xp should have a tool that allows you to create new partitions, but again won't let you merge them or resize them.

If you want to purchase a program you can get Partition magic, it's a good tool and does all your partitioning needs, but it's like a 40 dollar program i think.

If all else fail's you should back-up your important files before trying to create a new partition, and since you need to do that anyway there is no harm in just re-formatting after you've backed up and just doing a fresh re-install and partitioning it from the beginning, assuming you have the discs and regkey's.