yup..knew it coming :-) sata drives..

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$184 - Western Digital 250GB Serial ATA-150 7200 RPM 8MB OEM 3 year warranty
(price per gig: Approx 73C)

$269 - Maxtor 300 GB - Serial ATA 16MB OEM 3 year warranty
(price per gig: Approx 90C)

$148 - Maxtor 200 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Serial ATA-150 7200 RPM 8MB 3 year warranty
(price per gig: Approx 74C)

$155 - Maxtor 200 GB Serial ATA 16MB 3 year warranty
(price per gig: Approx 77C)

and then, PERSONAL favourite due to time i’ve spent with seagate and performance their liquid-rotating parts have given me:

$161 - Seagate Barracuda V 200 GB Serial ATA-150 7200 RPM 8MB 9ms 5 year warranty
(price per gig: 80.5C)

does the 5C per gig difference here’n there, but less size BUT 2 more years mental peace worth seagate? whaddaya guys think? i know i was half hesitant while building this system.. but now that i’m putting a gig ram and a 775 type p4-3ghz processor, a geforce 6800 level card, might as well put a faster drive.. and i am told between sata and ide drives, sata works WAY faster.. havent had the pleasure of testing this saying yet ..

and how MUCH of a performance gain we talkin’ here? we’re talkin’bout moving large chunks and less files.. in NON-raid environment..

MY personal choice was at one time maxtors, then western digitalz.. OVERALL it sticked with seagates.. cuz starting their 20 gig pieces, they put a lot of money in their research-development departments and used higher quality parts.. plus they’re making drives since forever.. anybody that had probz will seagate please share your stories here..

oh.. its gonna be partitioned for like 4-6 gigs for the sytem, and then rest for.. wellll.. u know.. dumping..

system will also be used to ATTEMPT make use of the 80G and 160G drives sitting in the existing system..

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Re: yup..knew it coming :-) sata drives..

9ms response time is pretty crappy. research the response time for the other drives. The 5 yr warranty sure is nice though..

if you're building a kick ass machine, i'd go with two smaller sata HD, and make a RAID 0. \ if you put 2*9ms drives in a raid 0 setup, you'll end up with a response time of about 6-7ms (50% plus overhead)..

and 4-6 gigs is not enough space for a OS partition (unless you're installing win98 ... Give it atleast 15 gigs. you need space for swap file, system restore space, etc...

if you've really got the moola to spend, there are 10,000 RPM raptor drives (~40 gig) with a ~5ms access time...

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Re: yup..knew it coming :slight_smile: sata drives..

^^:eek: :ahaa: NOT a bad idea.. NOT bad at all..

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Re: yup..knew it coming :slight_smile: sata drives..

buy one 74 or 37 Gig Raptor to install OS on like Nomy said.
And one 200+ HD, any cheap one is good to store Data. (read : movies, software and music :devil: )

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Re: yup..knew it coming :slight_smile: sata drives..

hmmmmm.. i dunno .. i’ve seen zero raidz in actions before.. they KICK some serious performance butts..was going to pickup the motherboard and cpu today.. but chickened out and asked them to order 2 seagates of 120gigs the above spec one (200 one i posted)

hehe, will wait tomorrow and then order the copper heatsink and fans for those drive (sleeves).. the shop owners are kinda hating me now.. :hehe:

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