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Quantum:
Sounds nice ;D
texasboy:
;D
One more item for thought would be a new internal HD. Maybe 160GB ??
I can hear you laughing Quantum. Yes the extra`s are starting to come in now. Not to mention quality faster Ram >:D
Still an old man must have his fun,lol
cheers
Quantum:
--- Quote from: texasboy on February 18, 2008, 07:32:00 am --- ;D
One more item for thought would be a new internal HD. Maybe 160GB ??
I can hear you laughing Quantum. Yes the extra`s are starting to come in now. Not to mention quality faster Ram >:D
Still an old man must have his fun,lol
cheers
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IDE or SATA? I hear Western Digital have come out with a 320GB hard drive that runs on a single platter. Also have you read anything about perpendicular storage method?
texasboy:
--- Quote from: Quantum on February 18, 2008, 09:38:28 am ---
--- Quote from: texasboy on February 18, 2008, 07:32:00 am --- ;D
One more item for thought would be a new internal HD. Maybe 160GB ??
I can hear you laughing Quantum. Yes the extra`s are starting to come in now. Not to mention quality faster Ram >:D
Still an old man must have his fun,lol
cheers
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IDE or SATA? I hear Western Digital have come out with a 320GB hard drive that runs on a single platter. Also have you read anything about perpendicular storage method?
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Believe it or not Quantum in my ignorance of how Sata and Raid works, I havent done any research yet. I noticed that some of the members on the computer forums use Sata. Would there be any advantage for me to use a Sata hard drive. I have the connections for it. Maybe you would have some links for me to read up on? Just home from work at 8pm and hard to spend the extra time on unknown product. Plenty of hard drives in the £26-50 range, would not want to spend more. Appreciate your thoughts.
cheers
Would this be a fair asumption. http://www.cgicomputerwares.com/index_165.htm
tks
Quantum:
There's no practical difference between a SATA or IDE (also known as ATA or PATA) drives at this point.
It really depends what connectors are on your motherboard, SATA drives tend to be slightly cheaper unless you find an IDE one on sale. If you do get a SATA drive, you need to make sure you have a SATA data cable (should be a fair bit less than £1) and a SATA power cable (molex to SATA cables are as cheap if not cheaper than SATA data cables).
500GB is the cheapest £/GB ratio at the moment I think. Also a new tech for hard drives have come out called 'perpendicular storage method' this allows platter densities to be much higher, reducing the amount of platters, increasing the life expectancy and reliability of the hard drive.
16MB of Cache offers almost no tangible performance over 8MB, only get higher amounts of cache when it's the time price or cheaper.
Easy enough to pick up a 320GB hard drive in that price range. But out of all 320GB hard drives, this one is probably the best as it runs on a single platter: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124735
Edit: Not sure if that's actually the single platter one! Apparently that model number is used both for the single platter and a double 160GB platter ???
Read this for details: http://www.dailytech.com/Update+Western+Digital+Launches+Single+Platter+320GB+Desktop+Drive/article10432.htm
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