need help in deciding which hardrive(s) to get 1

[estesflyer]

hiya. I'm currently building a new amd machine.

Currently, i have a 350 watt enermax psu, w/ two fans (very nice)

A full tower case, w/ a few case fans pulling air through it

An amd t-bird 1gig chip, clocked @ 266 FSB

An ECS k7vza m/b supporting 266 FSB, Ultra ATA 33/66

Nvidia Geforce 2 mmx 32 meg video card

and thats all i have so far...
I am wanting to get a nice big, fast hardisk.

I was thinking something between 40 and 60 gigs, w/ 7200 rpm, and atleast 8.3 seek time.

Any suggestions for a hard disk that might run nicely w/ the specs above.

TIA

- Rusty

 

[teknoguy]

I personally like Maxtor products.
i have a similar system to yours but my MB is a A7A266
I have a Diamond Max 60 ATA100 7200 hard drive. it runs quite nicely. In my opinion i would stay away from western digital, ive seen many many WD drives fail. if ya want to spend the extra buck ibm makes a drive that cruises at 10000rpm.

Go to

http://www.maxtor.com

and check it out.

 

[estesflyer]

ok, so either maxtor, or ibm would be nice? what about seagate?

and what is scsi? I've heard of it, but what makes it so special (not to mention expensive)

- Rusty

 

[NetManRob]

I say ditto to the Maxtor recommendation. That is all I use now. They are about as dependable a product as you'll find, easy to install and the performance is great.

If you are building a high-performance box, I suggest you go the extra mile and get two drives and a Promise Technologies RAID card. Hard drives do fail occasionally and there is something to be said for fault tolerance.

 

[rtshort]

For my money it's Quantum. I know everyone has their favs though.
SCSI stands for "small computer serial interface" I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong, and is a lot more expensive than IDE. They run faster and 1 SCSI Controller can hold up to 7? SCSI devices.(or 6) If your mainboard does not have a SCSI Controller built on board, you will have to purchase one. I'd just go with the IDE. Every day above ground is a GOOD DAY!!!

 

[osuman]

Small Computer Systems Interface. But still, for the price you'll pay for a scsi you could get a RAID array that would perform faster and be of equal or less cost. Go with IDE. That's my recommendation. Justin

Feel free to email me at:
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[rtshort]

UH, Yea, thats what I meant?, osuman. LOL Thanks.
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