Seagate (ST0154000U) 40 GB ATA-66 Hard Drive

Pros: Quality Inexpensive Drive
Cons: A little on the loud side

We have been upgrading our computers at work lately and this is one of the drives that we have been using for part of the last year. I also have one of these drives in my home computer so I have experience with it from a couple of different perspectives....

Pros: Quiet Operation, Fast, Compatible with both Macs and PCs
Cons: Price varies greatly depending on special offers and vendors: Shop around thoroughly!

The DiamondMax Plus line of hard drives from Maxtor represents a great value, offering fast, reliable drives at a reasonable price. This line of drives consists of 7200rpm drives, whereas their "DiamondMax" (without the "Plus") consists of 5400rpm...

Pros: Good size for the price. I paid about $99 retail (Circuit City)
Cons: The windows based installation software does not work.

The install was supposed to be easy. Nothing was easy. The directions were unclear. The software didn't work. They recommend using their software instead of fdisk. I tried it twice. Neither time did it create the needed fat32 partitions. I kept...