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Ok, ever wanting to speed my PC up, I'm thinking about getting rid of the 2x120GBs and replacing with 1x300gb. I currently have Seagate Barracuda, but wondering if I should go for something else and at what speed.

Ideas?

Thanks

If you want speed but not bothered about capacity then look here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/...formance_lead/

it is the fastest but not cheap at 200 quid for 150 mb

True. But if you want a drive on a budget. Then I just bought a 300GB Maxtor 7,200 rpm IDE ATA133 for £86 from E-buyer recently and it has 16MB Cache. That I can recommend. And it is quiet as well.

what about Raid? Maybe upgrade your mobo to one that supports raid and use your existing disks. Should work out a fair bit cheaper as well.

IMO I wouldnt use Maxtor, I have had far to many failures both in my pcs and also pcs that I have built for other people. They aren't the quickest either.

Exactly !. In the last twelve months all the failed HD`s I`ve replaced have been Maxtor PATA or SATA , they may be cheap but they are not quality. The fastest HD`s I`ve used lately are the Samsung Spinpoint SATA`s closely followed by Hitachi . Thats all I`ll use from now on Samsung or Hitachi , top quality , reliable and a fair price.

on the flip side my 4 x 300GB SATA drives are all maxtor and i have no problems at all with them in the 18 months i have had them. 7200 rpm and 8MB cache they are fast enough for me

I do also have a couple of Western Digital Drives. And they have been running without issue for nearly 2 years now.

If it's speed you're after, you should install windows on a different disk (and IDE channel) to your apps and data etc. Put the swapfile on the apps/data disk.