Internal Hard Drives

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: need quite big power

...it with my previous HDD, seagate IDE 20 GB, it so small What i don't like is because this HDD needs a lot of power, if you use it with <300w power supply, it sometimes hang, and it will decreases its performance. So for best performance, you'll need >500w power supply. althought it was said that its speed is 3Gb/s i don't believe it, because i think its speed is not far from my previous HDD. May be it because of my power supply At last, I think ... Read review

Advantages: Big capacity, good performance
Disadvantages: none

Seagate is a world leader in the design, production and marketing of hard disk drives and data storage solutions, providing products for applications with a wide range, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile computing, consumer electronic and branded solutions. This hard drive is the eleventh generation of Seagate drives. It uses the perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines the PMR technology and other ...
...All Barracuda hard drives are supported by 5 years warranty from Seagate. Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines the speed and capacity that is needed by the latest heavy desktop application. This drive provides data speeds of up to 120MB/s to make the computer boot quickly, start-up application and file access also become faster. ... Read review

Advantages: Very very quiet. Great price (comparing to other manufacturers)
Disadvantages: Occasional clicking Noise. Utility can be run from floppy only. Western Digital support is Dismal.

I upgraded my original 80 GB hard disk in my Toshiba laptop with this 160 GB Scorpio EIDE drive (Product No. WD1600BEVE). Before I buy this hard disk I read all the review that I could find on the web. The installation was simple and I did not encounter any issues. The drive is so quiet that I have to look at my laptop LED to see if the drive is reading or writing. I hear some clicking noise every once a while specially when going to sleep mode, ...
...being interpreted incorrectly by the hard drive. In order to fix this issue, there is an optimization utility available from manufacturer that can be downloaded and run. The only issue is that the laptop has to have a floppy drive to boot to and run the utility from bootable floppy. The other factor to take in consideration, if you are buying this drive or any other drive larger that 130 GB, you need to make sure system BIOS support it. For this ... Read review

Advantages: Extreme Speed: 15000 RPM, Reliable.
Disadvantages: Lower Memory Capacity

FUJITSU Enterprise MBA3147NC 147 GB The 15000 RPM Performance HDD To be very frank, I was shocked to see a 147 GB hard disk in the market, when it is being dominated by higher capacity drives, with capacities reaching several TBs. I was skeptic when I saw this product for first, as I researched about it, I found it quite amazing, allow me to share my experiences with you, First Impressions 15000 RPM! Oh Boy! What a speed ...
...what 15000 RPM signifies, Normally HDD have speed in the range of 7500-10000 RPM Max and it's the speed of the HDD that decides various factors like, response time, read and write time, which is essential for high definition movies and for playing the next genration games. What I liked in the product? * Extreme Speed: 15000 RPM. * 3.5 Inch Hard Disk! Small Size * Reliable. * Breaks all the previous benchmarks. What I disliked in ... Read review

Advantages: Cheaper price
Disadvantages: Not yet obtained

...is not a high-quality made case. Though Western Digital says they are using WhisperDrive™ technology on this drive to minimize noise. Nice! Overall So I would say that this hard-drive is really worth to buy. Save some money to buy fans! Match the needs for family and business computing. ... Read review