That's like asking if a Deathstar is better than a Maxtor!

Seagate.

flip a coin.

Both are low end drives, the Seagate is a more modern generation of drives and approx. twice as fast.
The rubber shock protection bikini of the seagate drive might have some appeal... ...or maybe I was just distracted by some avatar thumbnail 😉.

elianda wrote:

Both are low end drives, the Seagate is a more modern generation of drives and approx. twice as fast.
The rubber shock protection bikini of the seagate drive might have some appeal... ...or maybe I was just distracted by some avatar thumbnail 😉.

I am wondering what for rubber cover. Is it can reduce noise?

Theoretically it should reduce noise somewhat, but I really never felt it made much difference... I've used drives with and without the rubber thingy installed, and it muffles the seek noise a little bit, but it doesn't really have much effect beyond that. You'd probably be as good or better off just using rubber washers between the drive and case when you mount it... that'd give you some acoustic isolation without blocking ventilation to the drive.

IIRC, the Quantum drive was a little faster on seeks, and the Seagate was a little faster on transfer rates. Neither is particularly fast though. The Quantum LCT series seem to be pretty reliable... I've not really run across many dead ones, and I've got a couple dozen around here that all still seem to be as good as new, even though most of 'em were in everyday service for the better part of a decade. I can't really comment on that Seagate series, since I haven't run across more than a handful of 'em.

Which is good HDD for new retro rigs?

Maxtor or Conner?

IMO, CF-IDE for anything really old. For anything even halfway modern a SATA-IDE adapter or a PCI-SATA controller and a modern drive. You can find SATA controllers with Windows 98 drivers.

Hard disks really don't need to be period, it's just storage.