Quiet, Reliable Hard Drive

I have 5 of these drives. The 2 oldest are 1 ½ years old. Two are 3 months old. All have been trouble free. The fan is fairly quiet, but can be heard, as all fans can. I have my CD’s ripped to them, in WMA lossless and MP3 320 bit rate. One is used daily as a primary external, 2 are used as on site back ups and the other 2 are for off site back ups. They are a good price and as dependable as any other hard drive. PC World as good comparisons if you want more info. I did see in a Best Buy ad, they now have a 750 gig on sale for $219. Mine are all 500 gig drives.

The Seagate FreeAgent Desktop drives get good reviews from users at Newegg.com and are $129 for the 500GB model. I use a Seagate 7200.10 drive in my desktop and its very quiet there. Five year warranty and in my experience very reliable.
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I have 3 Maxtor's 250GB, 300GB, 1 TB. The 1TB was only $450 and i forget its on its so quiet. I have had no problems with any of them and the two smaller drives get carried back and forth from home to work and to service centers.

Bought my daughter the Western Digital last xmas. She's loaded music and videos on it with no problems yet. Seems fairly quiet to me but I haven't really paid attention to it.