Any Recommendation For Internal Sata Hard Drive For Dual 2.7ghz Options

[Milca]

Hello guys
I'm trying to purchase second internal HD for my dual 2.7GHZ - probably around 250 GB( maybe more)
I kind of did my research and everybody is talking about eighter
Maxtor,Seagate or Western Digital.
So my question is - does anybody have any recommendation as far as the brand and type ?
My first HD is Western Digital.Does it need to be same or it does not matter?

I would appreciate any answers.
Thanks for your time.

Milan

[hahaworld]

I've got a Seagate internal SATA hard drive, and it works great. It's 250G, and I use a PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Quad.

HaHaWorld

[lepetitmartien]

On the reliability issue, it's difficult to say.
On the noise issue, it's Seagate the winner.

Anyway, always check the tech docs on the manufacturer website for MTBF and noise idle/writing. It's enlightening.

Now for some peculiar uses, some maxtor (for small files, usually not our case) or western digital (very very fast RAID 0 with raptor drives) are more interesting.

It doesn't mean other or one brand or the other won't work, but it's the current state of things.

I have a mix of IBM (ooch old), Maxtor and seagate drives.