What do I keep in mind while buying a hard drive?

Question

What do I keep in mind while buying a hard drive?

Answer 1

speed, manufacturer, warranty, storage space, its purpose (boot drive, storage etc.), the rated lifetime.

Answer 2

How it should be connected (Serial-ATA is today's standard), capacity (depending on your usage, for multimedia and/or games it should be no less than 250 GB, I recommend 500 GB), maybe speed (5400 rpm minimum for notebooks, 7200 standard for desktop PCs), noise and price.

I can only recommend SAMSUNG drives because that's what I bought the last four times :) They're cheap, I've only had a failure once, and they're quite silent. Western Digital also has a pretty good reputation.

Hard drive prices have gone down lately, so I suggest you pick one with 500 GB capacity minimum.

Answer 3

Well several things. First you need to figure out if you need an IDE drive or a SATA drive. Thats the most important thing. also you wanna make sure you get one big enough to handle what you intend on using it for. Besides that not much just make sure you get one that will work with your computer.

IDE drives have grey flat ribbon cables running to them

SATA has much smaller cables look similar to a usb cable can be different colors.

Answer 4

The size of the cache and a fast average seek time. I build puters and use Western Digital hard drives. Never got a bad drive or ever had to replace one under my warranties either. Seagate also makes nice drives. Obviously, of course, you'll want a drive hard that has the proper interface for your rig, ex--IDE, SATA etc. If your tower supports SATA 3.0 I suggest you make sure to get an SATA 3.0 drive instead of a SATA150. If your tower is SATA150 I'd still get an SATA 3.0 drive because it will be compatible and run at SATA150 but, should you ever yank the drive and use it in a rig with SATA 3.0 capability you'll be able to run the faster 3.0.  

Answer 5

Check that the capacity of Hard Drive should match the capacity of  motherboard of computer. It should not happen that motherboard is able to  handle only 80 GB HDD and you have fixed 160 GB HDD with it.

Secondly, check if SATA HDD is compatible with your motherboard then get SATA HDD only, as Data transfer is fast in SATA HDD's as compared to IDE HDD.

Hard disk is sensitive part of computer. It should not fall of should not get jerks or else its media will crash.

Buy a Hard Disk of that Company which gives maximum warranty.

Some of the brands available are Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung etc.

Answer 6

you should take SATA because i s faster than the IDE. second manufacturer (Seagate is the best), than the Speed an the MB.

and take more GB. 250 or more.

Answer 7

Size, processor speed.

Answer 8

speed, space, sata, sata connectors, company and quality

Answer 9

unless you are way way into computers and do crazy stuff that needs a special harddrive...i'd just go in and talk to someone but honestly all you need to know is if its large enough for you and if the RPM is fast. RPM is how fast your harddrive will spin and thus how fast your computer will load something from the harddrive.

Answer 10

You should check for the warranty, company, speed of its cache and make sure you go for sata as per you motherboard, size/