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15 April 2003, 12:11 PM
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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
15 April 2003, 12:54 PM
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looking for 80gb motherboard support ATA 133 might possibly be upgrading to Serial ATA soon
you dont upgrade to serial ata either, you buy it or.......... you dont
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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.
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.
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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.
Work colleague bought one as well, that went duff same day as he received it.
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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 ***.
We have been using the new VIA P4FL400 they seriously kick ***.
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