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which drive should I get??

AthlonXP

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I know you guys have probably heard this over and over again but I will make this quick to the point. I have an asus a8n sli and right now I am using just a 74gb raptor drive. Now I still have about 30 gigs left but I still havent put all my stuff on the unit. I want to get a really good SATA drive as my dump/data drive. Can any give me some suggestions on which one should I go for??
 
AthlonXP said:
I know you guys have probably heard this over and over again but I will make this quick to the point. I have an asus a8n sli and right now I am using just a 74gb raptor drive. Now I still have about 30 gigs left but I still havent put all my stuff on the unit. I want to get a really good SATA drive as my dump/data drive. Can any give me some suggestions on which one should I go for??
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Well.

Maxtor makes the cheapest drives per capacity, but in recent months, their reliability level has gone way down..

Seagate has the best warranty, and they run the quietist. They are also the most expensive.


Halfway in the middle, are samsung and hitachi.

I'd rank in priority, nowadays, for me..

(Best to worst)

Seagate
Samsung (great warranties, don't fail much.. not top performers, but great pricing)
Hitachi [yes, these are the next generation past the deathstars.. However, IBM isn't making them anymore, and those deskstars that had so many problems are MANY generations ago.. in computer terms, it's practically ancient history]
Western Digital
Maxtor
 
i am leaning towards the seagate, now does NCQ make a huge different in performance??
 
Seagate and Western Digital have by far the bast reliability scores. As long as you stick with either one of them, your fine.
 
Ncq is designed for server style access, heavy heavy load, lots of I/O's so teh average used won't notice. Also you do need a controller that supports it. I'd go seagate just for the 5 year warranty
 
Personally I'd probably get a Seagate.
If you'd like some more objective info, or at least a much larger number of opinions, check out www.storagereview.com. They have a drive reliability survey on there.
Also, I'll second Hitachi not being the pit of despair. The GXP60 and GXP75 had design flaws. Before that IBM was regarded as one of the best. People have been sacked, drives have been redesigned, and it's now over until someone else screws up.
 
As for performance then? I am thinking of getting a drive to have FS9 on. This game tends to soak gigabyte and gigabyte of space and there seem to be a magic number when there is one to many files in the fs9 directory or something which make it run at 50 % of what it used to.

So I do need quite a fast harddrive though it feels like another WD Raptor is kind of overkill. My PC Power and Cooling 510 deluxe have to cope with a Vapochill and 6800 ULTRA as well as power hungry RAM and WD Raptor among others I don´t know how much power I can spare. Also don´t need any more heat in my case so don´t think another Raptor is the way to go.

But I still need a fast SATA harddrive. 80 GB is really enough if not the bigger harddrives is faster as well. Speed and reliability is primary confirm storage capacity second.
 
Well I will probably go for a 200gb or 300gb seagate then.
 
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