Best & Fastest SATA HDD for OS only..??
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bushwhacker
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Good suggestion is to grab SATA Raid.
You can put your 80 GB in first drive and rest of it can running up with you all together. like if you have 80GB, 250GB, 500GB... when plugged into RAID board, it will make computer think all this drives into one. THat is, 830GB.
If you want to use it for lag-free gaming, i recommend you Western Digital Raptor 74.4GB (running at 10,000 RPM)
The Seagate packed the best sata hdd in the market.... 750GB SATA II. ^^
You can put your 80 GB in first drive and rest of it can running up with you all together. like if you have 80GB, 250GB, 500GB... when plugged into RAID board, it will make computer think all this drives into one. THat is, 830GB.
If you want to use it for lag-free gaming, i recommend you Western Digital Raptor 74.4GB (running at 10,000 RPM)
The Seagate packed the best sata hdd in the market.... 750GB SATA II. ^^
nickslick74
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Yeah, the Raptor drives are the fastest single drives out there. I think the 150GB is faster than the 37GB and 74GB, but they are very expensive.
bushwhacker
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Agreed. Best to stick on SATA II for now.
nickslick74
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Seagate's new line of perpendicular storage hdds have pretty good latency times, though they do run warmer than a standard drive. They are less expensive than a Raptor. If I remember corretly they come in 250, 340, and 750GB flavors.
SATA II is the 3.0Gb/s right..???
Im not a PC gamer at all but I'm mostly into multimedia editing with needs for lots of media storage.
right now i have a 500GB Maxtor SATA II HDD and a 200GB Maxtor ATA HDD hooked up into one PC.
the 500GB HDD has a 5GB Partition just for the XP OS on it which is beginning to seem like a mistake for making it so small. so thats why i want like a 50GB or so HDD just for the OS so it can operate on its own special drive, and the other drives can be solely for media storage..
Im not a PC gamer at all but I'm mostly into multimedia editing with needs for lots of media storage.
right now i have a 500GB Maxtor SATA II HDD and a 200GB Maxtor ATA HDD hooked up into one PC.
the 500GB HDD has a 5GB Partition just for the XP OS on it which is beginning to seem like a mistake for making it so small. so thats why i want like a 50GB or so HDD just for the OS so it can operate on its own special drive, and the other drives can be solely for media storage..
nickslick74
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nickslick74
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codez13579
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deviouz re: post #6, u can partition the 500gb hd to increase the 5gb of os xp running on it without reformattin ur hd. simply use patition magic or if u knoe how to partition using the winxp disc use that to increase the space. save money on buying tons N tons of HD.
Yes my MOBO support SATA II (3.0Gb/s)
codez13579, i thought about that, but I'd really like to just have a small sized HDD just for the OS.
50-80GB HDD for the OS an 2 500GB HDD's for storage is what i had in mind.
my first 500GB HDD is getting pretty full so thats why i need a new drive.. just one for the OS and another 500GB HDD for more storage..
then comes my next question about power supply units.. what would be a suitable one for this setup im going to do.??
1*200GB ATA MAXTOR HDD
2*500GB SATA II (3.0Gb/s) HDD's
1*50-80GB SATA II (3.0Gb/s) HDD for the OS
codez13579, i thought about that, but I'd really like to just have a small sized HDD just for the OS.
50-80GB HDD for the OS an 2 500GB HDD's for storage is what i had in mind.
my first 500GB HDD is getting pretty full so thats why i need a new drive.. just one for the OS and another 500GB HDD for more storage..
then comes my next question about power supply units.. what would be a suitable one for this setup im going to do.??
1*200GB ATA MAXTOR HDD
2*500GB SATA II (3.0Gb/s) HDD's
1*50-80GB SATA II (3.0Gb/s) HDD for the OS
nickslick74
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Nodsu
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Nope. You can see the wattage on the PSU itself, but that number is probably a round lie. You can get the exact wattage of your PSU only if someone has bothered to benchmark it.
Easiest way to see what your PC is drawing is to buy one of those cheap wattmeters and hook it up between your PC and the wall socket. Now you just have to figure out what the efficiency of your PSU is
Usually it's some 70%, but better ones may go over 80.
Easiest way to see what your PC is drawing is to buy one of those cheap wattmeters and hook it up between your PC and the wall socket. Now you just have to figure out what the efficiency of your PSU is
Usually it's some 70%, but better ones may go over 80.Which 80GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Is Best..??
Which one of these 80GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives would you guys say has the best overall best performace for say just using for a "XP OS Boot Drive"
NEW EGG - SATA 80GB 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives
Which one of these 80GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives would you guys say has the best overall best performace for say just using for a "XP OS Boot Drive"
NEW EGG - SATA 80GB 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives
howard_hopkinso
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Threads merged.
TimeParadoX
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Personaly I really like this Hard drive because it's pretty good and cheap in price for the specs it has
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140
But also the other links are alot better but are about $20-30 cheaper then the one I linked, It's up to you =)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140
But also the other links are alot better but are about $20-30 cheaper then the one I linked, It's up to you =)
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