Looking for a cheap, reliable 250 GB hard drive for my dad's PC

[MoeDaKilla]

Guys, I'm looking for a new hard drive from my dad's PC, because it seems to be corrupted. I have formatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows. It worked fine for a week and started giving me problems again and I singled out the hard drive because it would get stuck when loading drivers for safe mode over and over again. I'm not willing to spend more than $60 and prefer something from Newegg, but I'll take all your suggestions in mind. Thanks ahead of time.

[newtekie1]

SATA or IDE?

SATA:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148261

IDE:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148141

[MoeDaKilla]

Sorry I forgot to mention a SATA drive.

[MoeDaKilla]

SATA or IDE?

SATA:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148261

IDE:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148141

I was actually looking at that same hard drive but the one with the 16mb cache, does it really make a difference. I have one of the newer Samsung Spinpoints with a 32mb cache and its very fast, but out of my budget range for my dad's PC.

[farid]

SATA or IDE?
SATA:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148261


+1 For that Seagate, Ive got the 320GB Seagate Baracuda and it performs very well.

Good Luck :D

[DrPepper]

I was actually looking at that same hard drive but the one with the 16mb cache, does it really make a difference. I have one of the newer Samsung Spinpoints with a 32mb cache and its very fast, but out of my budget range for my dad's PC.

I doubt your dad would see a difference, I went from an 8mb to a F1 Spinpoint and I didnt see a difference.

[MoeDaKilla]

Thanks guys, I think I'm gonna get the 7200.10, but I still haven't decided whether or not to spend the extra $5 and get the one with the 16mb cache.