gregh

Running out of space, need a new EIDE drive, any good deals around at the moment?

cheers,

greg

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Some good Maxtor ones on Scan Today


[Edited by DJ Dunk - 27/05/2002 10:26:04]

super_si

DONT BUY a big one!

best off geting say 40b 7200 RPM over a big one

gregh

Si,

Why?

Greg

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

no no noooo! buy as big as u can afford! 40gig is noway enough these days, esp if youre a proper gamer.

stevem2k

Don't buy a big 5400rpm one in preferance to a smaller 7200rpm one - unless you are just using it to store mp3's etc.

Look for 2mb cache and quick seek times too if this is going to be a disc with games installed on.

Steve

gregh

So is this one ok then?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...9b61cf131e9077

Maxtor 740DX Hard Disk Drive 80GB UIDE133 8.5ms 7200rpm - OEM £95 inc VAT

Greg

David_Wallis

yes...

David

ozzy

I think Super_Si is referring to the drop off in performance as the size increases

If you look at this article you can see that the throughput of the drive gets less as the size increases.

http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage...40gbhd-07.html

You could argue that two 40Gb drives will give better performance that a single large 80Gb one.

Persoanlly I'd go for the biggest one I coud afford OR if I had RAID, get two a get the best of both worlds.

Anyway, that Maxtor one looks like the dogs danglies

Stefan

super_si

More errors occur on bigger drives! hardware Techniction told me stick with smaller drives