SATA hd's cant choose

GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
edited December 2003 in Hardware
I am looking to get a couple SATA HD's for myself and am having problems choosing Price is a factor so I am only getting 80 gig drives. Ive heard the Hitachis have a great drive but knowing that they took over ibm's deskstar series makes me leary. I looked at the seagate ones and they arent bad. What you guys think I should do?

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  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Also thinking of getting 1 160 and spliting it into a 100 and a 60 gig partions. But how much performance would i lose?
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    http://www.essencompu.com/nupplysingar.asp?ID=4125


    Looking at that one
  • Park_7677Park_7677 Missouri Member
    edited December 2003
    The high speed S-ATAs aren't out yet (10,000+ rpm). Performance gain on a 7,200 RPM drive is small, if any.

    The Silicon Image S-ATA controller seems to be a tad better than the Promise one. Abit NF7-S comes with the Silicon Image controller, you're in luck ;)

    Get the biggest GB size with 8MB cache you can afford. Name brand of course. Or wait for 10,000 RPMs (more money though :()


    I, myself, will possibly be getting a 7,200 RPM 8MB cache S-ATA soon. I need more space, no sense going with IDE at this point. I don't have the money for 10,000 RPM (74GB estimated at $300) anyway.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I am gonna get a 160 I just cant make up my mind on what brand
  • Park_7677Park_7677 Missouri Member
    edited December 2003
    I'm going WD, Maxtor, or Seagate. Which ever is cheaper at the time... ;)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2003
    I was thinking of saving up for 2 36GB Raptors to use on the SATA Raid which comes with the AN7. $130 Each.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    my other pc has 2 of them Nice but truthfully i dont see much improvement. I ended up buying myself a 160 WD SATA drive so I think I will settle with tha t for a month or so and partition it then buy a second one
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2003
    Improvement over what? I have a single 80GB WD SE drive. Compare that to a RAID 0 Raptor setup.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    There is a a raid 0 setup It is fdast in test but for what the system is used for. Truthfully it didnt make ANY diff in gaming at all. and thats what its used for. boot times maybe a hair faster but not worth the extra cash especially when its only 36gigs And it was being compared to a 80 gig WD SE 8mb cache hd
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