Tong Family

Best Hard Drives

The current value leaders are the 120GB 7200 RPM EIDE drives. There is a big war going on now as to whether Western Digital or IBM has the best drive. Not surprising since WDC and IBM have a license deal so these are essentially the same drive. The WD model number is 1200AA while IBM is the Deskstor 120GXP.
To find any generic hard disk…
a) Storage Review To find the best hard drive, look at their leaderboard. These are the best drives around.
b) Price Watch. To find the lowest hard drive prices since this service is dedicated to the small VAR and seems to have close to the lowest prices, but caveat emptor.
c) www.pricegrabber.com. Go there if you care a little about reputation then use. The customer reviews appear to be a pretty good measure of reseller quality, so I only use ones that are 4 out of 5 stars.
d) Bizrate For the highest quality, but highest prices go to this location. I use ones that are 8.5 out of 10 or above.