Need help choosing a hardrive!

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Wonroc

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Need help choosing a hardrive!
My Sys=Pent D 920, Asus P5B mobo, 2 gig Patriot ram, X1900 vid card
I havent been able to keep up with all different types of hard drive connections and types.
Basically I want storage around 300gig. what would be the best/fastest/reliable and Latest drive choices for me?
 
My vote is on the Seagate 7200.10 320gig drive, although WD has a drive in that same exact category, not sure on the model but i'm guessing it'll be between these 2. Pretty sure they both have 5 year warrenties i'd probably go with what ever one you can get for cheapest.
 
the WD3200KS will only come with a 3 year warranty, vs 5 years for the Seagate. On the other hand, with WD you won't get to play the "do I get a quiet spindle" lottery.

I played the other day in Germany and won a nice, loud drive. :)
 
should I go "ide" or "sata" on this one. I see the Average Latency: 4.16ms are the same? What am I gaining by either?
 
definitely sata...preferably sataII although it wont really make a difference
 
Wonroc said:
should I go "ide" or "sata" on this one. I see the Average Latency: 4.16ms are the same? What am I gaining by either?
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Unless you do not have a SATA port, I do not see a reason to purchase a PATA drive at this point in time.
 
I would go for the Sata or SataII either or isn't really going to matter much at all. Could wait for sataIII to come out in a few months though, but i think only enterprise drives and high stuff will use that, not even sure if the drives will use it might be more of just a interconnect speed increase for NAS devices.
 
oplin said:
I would go for the Sata or SataII either or isn't really going to matter much at all. Could wait for sataIII to come out in a few months though, but i think only enterprise drives and high stuff will use that, not even sure if the drives will use it might be more of just a interconnect speed increase for NAS devices.
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Considering most drives (even the raptors) cannot even use SATA 150 (SATAI) fully, SATAII and SATAIII in months to come is just useless.
 
please go for SATA hdds.

i hate to handle the molex connector for IDE hdds as its always very tight. I always end up red fingers after changing hdds
 
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