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    Samsung/WD hard drive compatibility with W3V

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by TechGeek, May 13, 2005.

  1. TechGeek

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    I ordered my W3V this morning from Proportable. Sean confirmed that it will be shipped out today. Now it's onwards to spending more money on upgrades and accessories!

    I know that a lot of members here have the Hitachi and Seagate drives in their W3Vs. On NewEgg.com, both the Samsung Spinpoint and Western Digital Scorpio 80GB 5400RPM drives are cheaper. The Samsung unit has very good user reviews on NewEgg and I will probably get it. I like to know if it will work with the W3V.
     
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    In my world, there are 3 hard drive brands... Seagate, Western Digital, and everyone else. I put much more faith in buying hard drives from companies where mass storage is the area they built their reputations on.

    The Scorpio's are supposed to be very quiet and cool running drives, and should be good alternatives to the more expensive Seagates.

    Kai
     
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    Hitachi has had the performance crown for about a year and half now with the 7200rpm drives....... Seagate has had the coolest, low power drives around for at least the last year. I love my desktop WD Raptor drives, but I don't know if I trust their notebook drives or not (same goes for hitachi and seagate in a desktop drive)... Fujitsu has the serial ata notebook drives out, but I trust them about as far as I can throw them.

    When Seagate finally gets out their 7200rpm sATA drives... I think we're going to have a total switch on our custom side to seagate.

    Thanks,
    Justin
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    Shouldn't be a problem at all. Of course nothing has been "tested" or "certified"..... and these are all our own opinions..... If you buy a drive because you want to and it turns out to fail or just be a dog, it's the price you'll have to take.

    Ask a question and you'll recieve a ton of answers.... just let us know how it works out for you.

    Thanks,
    Justin
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    Thanks for the input, guys. So I guess it's a negative for a recommendation of the Samsung drive? All the 5400rpm drives have very similar specs(access times, seek times, e.g.). Where will the extra performance of the more expensive drives lies? Do they run cooler, quieter, have a longer life? Even if I decide to get the Samsung unit, I assume it will not be any compatibility problems with the W3V?
     
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