Time to upgrade the hard drive, looking for 80gb motherboard support ATA 133 might possibly be upgrading to Serial ATA soon. What can you guys recommend and where from. Thanks

 

ive read it a few times, are you after a motherboard or hard drive...


you dont upgrade to serial ata either, you buy it or.......... you dont

Si

 

Serial ATA = complete waste of cash unless you are demanding unreal raid access times (dual or multiple hard drives running together). ITs not some go faster term its for serious end users only.

80 gig WD SE 8 meg cache drive which is ATA100 will do you just fine and is nearly as quick as SATA for a fraction of the cost.

S-ATA also only comes in 36 gig sizes for now and is about 4 times more for 80 gigs of storage - need 2 drives each of which is like 180% of the cost of the IDE drive for a 25% performance gain max.

 

Both Seagate and Maxtor have Sata drives larger than 36gb.

 

Abit NF-7 mobo ?

Steve

 

So looks like WD SE, how about the Maxtor ATA 133 with 8mb cache as well. Any views on the above. Also who is the cheapest?

 

Right a local company has the 120Gb Western digital 8Mb cache for £90 all in. Seems like a good deal?

 

yep . good enough

 

I would advise against western dig at the moment. they have had bad reports recently.failing all over the place.

Work colleague bought one as well, that went duff same day as he received it.

 

I agree with Tapper, stay away from western Dig. I've been using seagate and maxtor for years... no probs at all. stay away from IBM as well.
We have been using the new VIA P4FL400 they seriously kick ***.