200GB Hard drive---95 euro

marco murphy

Komplett http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=302610&cks=WOF

Very cheap

Pet

Lovely!! It seems to be much more expensive elsewhere though - is there a catch? And is it a decent hard drive?

marco murphy

Doubt it,notice how there are so many in stock,might that be it?

Random

The WD one is only E104, so I doubt there's anything wrong with the MAXTOR one, other then it's being offered a little cheaper

vibe666

and it being a maxtor drive.

personally, I'd pay the extra few quid to go with the WD.

I've only ever had two (of my own) drives go on me, and both were Maxtor. personal experience says it all for me, and I've heard plenty of others here saying similar on other threads in the past.

Random

I've had 3 maxtors go, but that may be because they're the only ones I bought.

I've also got 3 maxtor working perfectly, along with an IBM and a SEAGATE

silent

5 maxtors here, all over a year old and many used 24/7 - all going strong (knock on wood)
no brand is more reliable than other - this faq past on Sr summs it up best : http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=BrandMostReliable
personal experience with people tells me it's handling and ****ty powersupplies that couse most damage IMHO

You can have a look into their reliability survey (think you need register though) - but they do not cover the diamond max plus 10 series yet as it's too new.
that said, never heard recently anything saying the series would be less reliable or otherwise - it's one of these rumours and heard from a friend his drive failed etc type of things that give manufacturer X a bad name sometimes (unjustified)

btw, the 95E price is neat deal, sadly it's not the 300G/16M version that is on offer that would be much better

OFDM

If only they didn't use GLS for shipping...

Aquos76

OFDM wrote:

If only they didn't use GLS for shipping...

Your spot on there. I ordered a hard drive from them earlier in the year, and I had a nightmare with that shower of ****ers. Thats all i could describe them as. 10 days after it was despatched from komplett.ie I eventually got it

RicardoSmith

I think I'd pay the extra for this one.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200GB IDE ATA/100 8MB cache 7200RPM
Your price: €107.00 http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=123995&cks=SPK

Pet

RicardoSmith wrote:

I think I'd pay the extra for this one.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200GB IDE ATA/100 8MB cache 7200RPM
Your price: €107.00 http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=123995&cks=SPK

What's the difference? And is that NCQ (native command queueing) on the Maxtor just a blurb, or something useful?

RicardoSmith

Pet wrote:

What's the difference?...

For me, I just have found seagates reliable and quieter than other drives. For me thats worth the extra. Regardless of the stats I'd prefer to go with the brand I have the best experience with in the past.