best hard drive to go for?

[adam1v]

from this list of hard drives at overclockers, can anyone recomend a hard drive?
Its purely for gaming, and obviously needs to be larger than 100gb as ive just filled my 80gb up!

Any recomendations?

[Toolbox]

From the choices you have... the Western Digital Caviar 10,000RPM drive seems to be th ebest for your needs.

[Justintime]

Yea but the Raptor 10k over 100gb is crazy expensive. If its not going to be a boot drive then just about anything will do, good ol reliable Samsung might be a good choice, have not had a failure from those in ages and i use them mostly these days. Hitachi has an excellent track record, seagate is great, WD too and lately Maxtor have recovered. For pure speed i'd get a raptor, but for reliability and mass storage, Samsung, Seagate or a WD Caviar, with Samsung more for reliability. In my opinion the Raptor is not old enough for me to judge reliablity and i only use small numbers to have an opinion on them though 3 of the 30 or so i've installed have failed, 2 36 and 1 74, bear in mind these were earlier models not long off the first UK batches.

[adam1v]

im glad someone else noticed the price :s

Ive always bought seagate, because i thought they was the top brand to go for, and would last, but ive had a couple/few go down between home and work PCs

[Justintime]

Yea i find the Samsung Spinpoint, while not winning speed records are quite fast enough and almost bullet proof.