Hard Drive(s) ?

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Pinnipedal Czar (: 3=
Member Since: Apr 11, 2004

Well, it seems that before I go and start all sorts of new projects that have come up, that I'm going to need some more space to put 'em . My wee 120G Seagate has only 33% left in it, so I'm in the market for more space .

Any paricular brand/type/size/speed that anyone can recomend buying or staying away from ? My MB is SATA configurable, which may be helpful in choosing .

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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Aug 30, 2006 08:55 am

Definately go SATA if you can, I personally will not get Western Digital, but Maxtor and Seagate have both done well for me, I am a Maxtor user mostly, but Seagate has really dropped their prices for the consumer market recently, if you can afford Seagate, go for it, and just get as big of a drive as you can afford.

Pinnipedal Czar (: 3=
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Since: Apr 11, 2004

Aug 30, 2006 09:56 am

Maxtor seems like the ticket...

www.compusa.com/products/...50GB_Hard_Drive

A coupl'a these aught'a do 'er, eh ?

And thanks for confirming the SATA-RAID thing .

Prince CZAR-ming
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Since: Apr 08, 2004

Aug 30, 2006 10:21 am

RAID is a different story, some use it for speed of writing, other's for fault tolerance (data integrity).

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is what it stands for, or at least it used to. I think they've changed the words now.

My board is raid capable, but I'm not using it. Didn't see the need. I am using 2 sata disks though.

Those SATA drives you pointed out are sata 1, or 150gb per second. SATA 2 is 300gb per second. See if your board supports SATA2, you may benefit from faster transfer. That's what I did.

You won't actually see that type of throughput, but the xfer is faster.

Pinnipedal Czar (: 3=
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Since: Apr 11, 2004

Aug 30, 2006 11:10 am

Interesting . I checked, and it is going on five now, so it only does SATA1 . What would you suggest ?

Prince CZAR-ming
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Since: Apr 08, 2004

Aug 30, 2006 11:34 am

I think SATA1 is still better than IDE, even ATA133. I think it's like 10 or 15% faster than ATA133.

You still should see an improvement. I'd guess that SATA2 would be probably another 10 or 15% faster than SATA1. Not much to worry about. You're still getting an improvement (probably).


Pinnipedal Czar (: 3=
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Since: Apr 11, 2004

Aug 30, 2006 11:46 am

Cool . Thanks guys .

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Since: May 11, 2002

Aug 30, 2006 12:18 pm

I would go with seagate because they have the longer warrenty :)

www.TheLondonProject.ca
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Since: Feb 07, 2005

Aug 30, 2006 04:09 pm

I've have been working in IT at this same company for 8 years now. In these 8 years I have seen but a handful of drive failures (we have about 150 desktops and 20 servers). I would find it pretty difficult to recommend one brand over the other. We have had some really cheap drives last for years (over 5 years). We have had some really expensive server drives fail within months. If you incorporate some sort of fault tolerance into your system you could probably use just about any manufactured hard drive and expect the same results - IMO of course.

Czar of Turd Polish
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Since: Jun 20, 2006

Aug 31, 2006 02:44 pm

I don't normally pimp WD hard drives but I am running one of their 10K Rpm drives and it is top notch. They are more expensive but the seek time is fantastic. In the 7200 Rpm realm I run Seagate drives.

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Aug 31, 2006 07:12 pm

Yep, Seagate here as well. Although as dB stated Maxstor are fine as well. But the longer warrenty on Seagate is a good selling point. I have only ever had one Seagate drive corrupt on me. WD I have fried too many to even think about.

And definately SATA, dont bother with the RAID array though, it wont really benifit you or me either for that matter.

Pinnipedal Czar (: 3=
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Since: Apr 11, 2004

Sep 01, 2006 11:18 am

Thanks guys... big help as always !

Kaos is only a form of insanity
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Since: Feb 03, 2005

Sep 04, 2006 12:06 am

I as Hue am in need of a new hard drive for another of my computers. How do I I know what my board supports SATA RAID etc, IDE / ATA? any help would be appreciated

Cheers then

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Sep 04, 2006 11:01 am

Do you have the manual for it? Otherwise try and find the manufacturer and model and we can look it up on the net.

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