HD questions

frankieB · Posted: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:36:49 Post Subject: HD questions

I am building my new machine from the mobo i won here a few weeks back, and i am looking around at hd's and wanted to ask something.

Give you an idea of what this hd is going to be used for, it is mostly going to be a work machine with large graphic files, no games.

Would i really see a different between a ata-133 or a ata-100?

or would it be better to look for a hd with a high cache like 8, i normally see 2meg drives.

anything else i should look form when getting this drive? i am thinking of getting a 40 - 60 gig drive. Since i burn most of my work when i am done. So as for storage i do not need if for now.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:13:56 Post Subject:

You probably wouldn't notice the difference between ATA133 and ATA100, but the prices aren't that different and you may as well get 133. 8MB cache is nice too... you may notice that.. I did when I went from some 2MB Maxtors to 8MB Western Digital!!

What else do you have for this system? I am selling a bunch of stuff in an effort to buy one of TFB's bikes!!

I have a 420W power supply, XP2800+ cpu, and a modded case with matching cd-rom for sale...

Grin

frankieB · Posted: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:20:08 Post Subject:

thanks for the feed back...

as per the sale items, funny you should ask. i was looking at a amd 3200. are the bench marks going to be that different from a 2800 to a 3200?

pm me the prices, thanks!

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

I agree with BB, going from ATA100 to ATA133 you won't see much of a difference.

BUT going from 2mb cache to 8mb cache, I saw a substantial improvement when using large files, which I do on a regular basis creating DVD's of family/friends home movies.

As for HD's where you will see the biggest improvment is if you can go into a Raid 0 configuration, meaning you'd have to have 2 HD's. Others here could explain that more. I just did a Raid 0 on a friends machine and saw a good increase in response.

As for the processor, if you're REALLY concerned about speed, the 3200 will be best. But the 2800 is a Barton core, and most likely you will get the best "bang for the buck" from it.

Dud3! · Posted: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:00:12 Post Subject:

The only HDDs for me are made by Seagate.

T-shirt · Posted: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:59:10 Post Subject:

With Seagate upping their warranty to 5 years, should definatly give them a leg up on the others.
they've always had good performance, but it's nice to see they beleive they are making a product that will last.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:41:39 Post Subject:

Is Seagate doing that on ALL products or just things like SCSI/SATA?