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• Sep 25, 2004

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i was checking out alienware the other day, and in the editing specs for you to design a system it allows you to select a hard drive, one of the hard drives was 400GB IDE, i never knew these were around, is it true or did alienware make some typo.

 

Electron Chaser

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• Sep 25, 2004

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Yeah it's true check out the article

Hitachi .4TB SATA HD

 

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• Sep 25, 2004

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The Hitachi 7K400 has been out for quite a while.

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/si...i_baseMenuID=22f0deefa8f3967dafa0466460e4f0a0

Benches are very good, though it does get edged out by other similar drives in various areas. The Raptors are still a much better choice for a fast OS disk.

 

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• Sep 25, 2004

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You can get the 36GB raptor for $69 after MIR at outpost.com, now if you buy two and have a raid config. you will be much better off. Did you want to buy from Alienware??? build it yourself and have fun and save.....

 

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• Sep 26, 2004

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Its the feeling of upgrading to raptor from normal 7200rpm drive (ATA100 8M)
as good as upgrading to normal 7200rpm drive (ATA100 8M) from 5400rpm drive (ATA33 256K)?

 

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• Sep 26, 2004

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Just in case any of you guys forgot, 400GB is about six times larger than 74gb, and half the size and hassle of two 36GB drives.

 

mbentley

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• Sep 27, 2004

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tom10167 said:

Just in case any of you guys forgot, 400GB is about six times larger than 74gb, and half the size and hassle of two 36GB drives.

Click to expand...

everything depends on if you are going for speed or size.

 

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• Sep 27, 2004

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I will go for speed any time

 

mbentley

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• Sep 28, 2004

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mata2974 said:

I will go for speed any time

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most of the time it just all depends on what you are storing. if i had a ton of music and movies, there is no reason to put that onto a fast scsi array... that is just a waste of money. that sort of stuff doesn't need fast load times...

i imagine you already were thinking that, but you get the drift...