I recently purchased a Seagate BIV which is now on it's way back. DOesn't like overclocking to well. I currently have a Western Digital 20.5gig 5400RPM that seems to be doing just fine. I just want to upgrade to 7200RPM and about 40gigs. Also that Seagate got Nasty hot!!! When I 1st put it in, I couldn't install Win2k with the system o/c'd so I clocked down, and the drive felt nice and cool. I touched when I was having problems with it, and it was HOT!!! The problem was that it kept locking up my games on me, and was kinda flaking out, and skipping on me.

I want a good stable harddrive, that wont give me any BS when oc'ing. I was thinking about getting another Western Digital, as I have never had any problems, and this one seems to o/c ok.

My motherboard is an Asus A7A266 which I plan on getting rid of soon. Crappy board, very unreliable.

I looked at the 75GXP 40gig seems to be to spendy for me.

The other drive is Maxtor. I read that the 60DMP's do nice in a oc'd system. Am I to understand that DMP is acronym for Diamond Maxtor Plus? I can pick up a 60DMP 40gig for $100, as well as a Western Digital for $100.

Anyone have any insight as to which harddrive to get?

I'm leaning towards the Western Digital, as I've used quite a few and they all are working just fine. Just not in any o/c system. Although this system is and it seems to be doing alright.

Thanks for any help.

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