MaXLine III or Caviar RE?

[Foxie3a]

I ran out of space this week, so it's time to buy another HD. Right now I have a single Maxtor MaXLine III 250GB (P-ATA). It works perfectly, and I am impressed. So I can get another one....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144031

That's a MaXLine III 250GB S-ATA with NCQ and 16mb cache. It's also only 100 bucks.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144407

But the Western Digital looks very nice. Only 8mb cache and no NCQ, but it is 320GB. It's $125. I just get the feeling the WD is a tougher drive, but this Maxtor has yet to give me any reason to try another drive. Right now, I'm leaning towards the WD because I want to try something new, and I like the extra space.

Anyone have any advice?

[Jokester_wild]

Id suggest Seagate from my experience.

I just bought another 300gig 16mb sata2, they come on sale so often its awsome :)

[D_o_S]

I would never again touch a Maxtor from the experience I have had with them...

WD or Seagate or Hitachi FTW

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I would never again touch a Maxtor from the experience I have had with them...

WD or Seagate or Hitachi FTW
QFT, find a Seagate

[masterofpuppets]

Go for Seagate. Almost every Maxtor I've owned, bar the 15GB one I am using (until I can afford my Seagates' ;)), have died from a crappy motor. Not worth the risk. Seagate are very reliable, very quiet, have decent performance and are priced pretty well.