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Serial ATA
What does everyone thinks of this offer ?
http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage....n68&id=1000763 And what's the difference between the OEM version of XP Home vs what I could buy at the store ? |
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OEM version of XP does not come with support, or manuals.
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My OEM copy of XP came with manuals and what would appear to be support. Just not a box.
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I guess I'll pick up either the 80g or the 120g with OEM XP. That's the best deal I've seen so far for these new drives.
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![]() I guess that what's included will probably vary from place to place (normally, you'll get a cut down manual, not the full one). Typically, OEM products are for use by system builders and any support would be through them, and not directly with Microsoft (for winxp). |
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OEM basically comes with just the stuff you need an no extra crap.
If you've loaded Windows XP onto a system before, it's a no brainer. I just might say that I warn you that when trying to install XP on a SATA drive you must make sure you've got your SATA drivers! You have to go to a different menu for XP and it's pretty confusing... and I've loaded OS OVER 100's of times no doubt. Good luck. |
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I'm quite certain that I loaded up the SATA drivers when I built up my p4p800 system. I'll doublecheck again. This is my 1st build and I know I'm being ambitious. I enabled IDE boot in the BIOS instead of SATA. Right now the new machine is running a small w2k 20g drive. I planned to install the SATA drive, Ghost the content over because I think it would be faster to keep all my running programs, enabled SATA boot, then install XP over w2k. Any problems with those steps ?
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i wouldnt get it because of the one year warranty, typically a three year warranty means well made components; however, that is a good deal especially since its also got a 8MB cache.
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Those Seagate drives currently have the best reliability in the industry, followed closely by IBM/Hitachi. This is according to user database @ storage review. The IBM/Hitachi 8MB Cache models come with 3 year warranty, but I imagine they will cost more. They are also considerably faster though not as silent.
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