Harddrive questions before buying

[John_A]

I will be buying a hard drive for my pc I am build and was wondering a few things

1.Would I be fine with a 250gb or go for a 300gb?
2.Im gonna be using a Epox Ultra motherboard From what I get off the specs I could hook a hardrive up 2 different ways SATA or IDE correct? If so What would be the best way?

3. any certian brands to look for thats better dont wanna spend alot on one maybe $100 a lil over I found this one would this work and be ok? harddrive (http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101251&affiliate=pricegrabber) :shrug:

[tom10167]

1.)I don't know.
2.)It doesn't matter, just get a SATA seeing as how it's like $3 more
3.)That drive is quite good, I like the price.

Nobody can tell you how much storage you're going to need. :)

[darksparkz]

Definitely go for SATA if you can, pretty much all the newer motherboards support SATA, some do SATAII as well.

Tough to say which is better for you, 250GB or 300GB, it's up to how much space you think you'll need.

I'd say this is a better HDD: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101220-12

[John_A]

well i would go 250 but dont wanna run outta space more or less just have games music nothing heavy duty but dont wanna lack in space either ya know

[ajrettke]

I'd get the 250's cuz they tend to be cheaper per gb.
Might as well get SATA, it's the newer format...even though there isn't a performance gain with SATA over PATA, unelss you run servers, then SATA II with NCQ is where the only gain is.

[darksparkz]

I have a buncha games and about 500 songs, less then 150GB taken up. But it's all on preference, for the extra $10-20, you can get 50GB or 70GB more.

Or, just get one for now and add another later on and run RAID0 =).

[John_A]

thats what I was thinking just end up with 2 250gbs also Im pretty sure it is but just gonna ask to make sure but on the epox specs it says Four S-ATA II ports from nForce4 Ultra with up to 300MBps bandwidth.now Im pretty sure thats the SATA ports but why is is S-ATA instead of just SATA 2? dumb question Im sure but can never be too sure heh

[tom10167]

I don't know, it doesn't really matter in terms of anything though. Any drive but a SCSI or a laptop drive are going to work without hassle in your motherboard.