Hard Drives???

[Sir Golitech]

What's the latest hot hard drive?
Is the 2MB cache better than the 8MB?(I've heard stories)
Western Digital?
or
Maxtor?

 

[DayUSeX]

umm 8mb cache is waay better than 2 mb dunno what the guy was smoking when he told you two is better than 8. As far as fastes hard drive it would still be scsi, but no it seems the new 72gb 10,000 rpm hard drives are what everyone is drooling over

 

[OSUmaxx]

8 MB is superior to 2.

I've had great luck with WD and I just got a new Maxtor, but I have good things to say about both. WD has served me very well over the years.

 

[Sir Golitech]

Yeah WD has been a household name to me.I'm going to pick up a 40GB.That might not be much to you guys but that's a big jump for me(10GB stock).

 

[DayUSeX]

holy cow your voodoo3 needs some kick 2 lol

 

[Sir Golitech]

Yeah my wife is going to buy the ATI card in my sig for a christmas gift.Nice to know what I'm getting for christmas hu?

 

[unreal]

scsi has always been the fastest, but for ide drives, 8mg always better, doesnt run as fast all the time so its quieter, and before the 1 gig wd and after 40, wd has been good, maxtor after 20gig has been grreat for me,, i have both..

 

[Sir Golitech]

Check out these reviews

WD 40GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive

 

[TUK101]

I am running an 8mb cache WD in my computer right now and it has been pretty nice. I have run just about all of the brands at one time or another. For me the WD seems to run a bit quieter than the rest, but maybe that has something to do with the fact that most of the WD drives that I have run have been pretty new ones, 20 gig and larger. The Maxtor 30 gig that I bought new 3 years ago has been a great drive for me. Its in my sons computer now and is still running strong. It is noticably lounder than even the 40 gig 2mb WD drives that I have frequented in the past year and a half though. As far as speed, the 8mb cache hard drives are the next best thing to going with dual drive Raid. In games my load times have dropped noticably over when I was running a 2mb cache WD drive in the same size.

 

[Sir Golitech]

I just picked up the new WD 7200 80GB 8mb cache hard drive.It was only $40 more than the 40GB 2mb cache.Oooo man I can't wait to get this puppy up and running.

 

[prankstar008]

What about raptors? Those are the latest and (i'd assume) fastest non SCSI drives

 

[xSyNTaXx]

what is the difference b/w ATA 100 and ATA 133

haha i know this has nothin to do with the topic but i wuz just curious

 

[Sir Golitech]

Yes I am most impressed with this H/D
Well worth the extra bucks.
This will keep me going for a few more years.

Thanks for all your input guys.

Goli

 

[donny_paycheck]

what is the difference b/w ATA 100 and ATA 133

haha i know this has nothin to do with the topic but i wuz just curious

Welcome to the forums.

ATA100 is electrically limited to 100 megabytes per second, and ATA133 is limited to 133. There is really no practical difference though. All ATA drives don't push more than 65 megabytes/second or so through the bus, and even during cache transfer it's not enough to saturate the ATA100 bus. For most applications, ATA66 still has little difference from the interfaces several years newer.

Try to keep your posts on topic in the future though.