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Seagate Barracuda ATA V (120GB) Review

Steven Parker CEO - Neowin.net Neowin @aSteveParker · Jun 12, 2003 08:17 EDT

Thanks Sean of NextGen Electronics for sending me word on this hardware review. Heres a snip from it:

No one thinks of their hard drive until it crashes or it locks up. No one seriously considers performance when purchasing a hard drive, mis-focusing instead on the "deal-of-the-week". Well, think again! Your hard drive is absolutely the most important part of you system, and you ought to be more concerned about it than you are about the CPU!

After all, if your CPU dies, you buy another one – your master OS disc drive dies and you have likely lost a ton of important data, some of which wasn't backed up, and you are faced with literally a full days worth of effort to reload your software and reconfigure your system.