Looking for a good SATA

Rafterman223 · Jul 12, 2008

I'm researching building a gaming computer that will require high capabilities and a good amount of storage for dozens of games (my current is 4GB and I've had no space problems). I want a good SATA harddisk. What's the price range and key price-related differences and good types and brands?

tester3000 · Jul 12, 2008

Rafterman223 said:
(my current is 4GB and I've had no space problems)

I'm assuming thats a typo? Lol.

Anyway Seagate makes good hard drives. Their 500GB drive is great. Speedy and has enough space for all your games and apps.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288

Az00123 · Jul 13, 2008

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218&Tpk=wd6400aaks

Fast drive which also has a good $/GB Ratio.

BossBorot · Jul 13, 2008

ya that WD6400AAKS is currently the champ not only is it 14 cents a gb but its one of the fastest drives out there.

Gabkicks · Jul 14, 2008

what's a better choice and more reliable, the 32mb cache seagate or the western digital one?

ou_phidelt · Jul 14, 2008

Realiability should be about the same. The Seagate has a five year warranty compared to three for the WD, take that for whats its worth. The WD is faster but all my systems have Seagates and will stay that way.

trist007 · Jul 15, 2008

Does that WD640000AKS support native command queuing? What about Automatic Acoustic Management? AHCI?

Also, how is this hard drive fast? Transfer speed? Seek time? Burst?

Please excuse my noobness if some of these questions are obvious. I just want to make sure.

chop_wood · Jul 15, 2008

wo the 640000 would be a huge hdd. lawl.. anyway .it has ncq, very quiet . yes to ahci. its fast in that in all categories it scores near or ontop across the board. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=r...OZ2yTPpnn8X_w6wCQ&sig2=YF34LLNsErZPfjgPRPy3JA

makeitearly · Jul 15, 2008

Seagate is the best and very old in the market of HDD's, I personally have 2 drives about 360 GB's on SATA and both are working very well. Go for seagate's drive.
Regards

Krypto · Jul 15, 2008

makeitearly said:
Seagate is the best and very old in the market of HDD's, I personally have 2 drives about 360 GB's on SATA and both are working very well. Go for seagate's drive.
Regards
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Not sure if this is an attempt at spam being that its your first post.

Slmhofy · Jul 15, 2008

what about something like 3 of these 250Gb 7200.10
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262
in a Matrix RAID 5 array vs one 6400aaks? Any real benefit for the extra cost than just braging rights?

edit:
Just asking because it's something I'm currently debating on doing for my next build

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