[DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drives shopping

[Victoria L. Herring]

I sent back the Seagates and am now looking at Hitachi 1TB drives 
[Desk, Ultra, etc Star].  On pricegrabber.com I found four, all 1TB, 
3 of which had 4* reviews so I'd probably at least start there. 
All  three are ATA-300, 7200RPM, 32mb buffer..they each have 
different part numbers.

How the heck does one, when these specs are all the same, decide 
whether 3 seemingly equivalent drives, all with 4* ratings, are 
different?  And why the price differential?

The Ultrastar is more expensive but it says it is for enterprise use 
and has a 5 year warranty
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