best hard dririve

[quanttrade99z]

Hi,

I'm thinking of buying this INTEL motherboard: Intel® Desktop Board D955XCS.

I want to buy the best hard drive I can for it. I heard that that SEAGATE BARACCUDA is good.

But, I don't know what the correct interface to get is? i.e. SATA 100 or 150, etc etc?
Which BARACCUDA drive is the correct interface?

(specs for the motherboard below)

Thanks!
quant_trade


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Here are the specs:
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Form Factor BTX (12.80 inches by 10.50 inches [325.12 mm by 266.71 mm])
Processor Support for an Intel® Pentium® Extreme Edition processor in an LGA775 socket with a 800 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® D processor in an LGA775 socket with a 800 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition processor in an LGA775 socket with a 800/1066 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor in an LGA775 socket with an 800 MHz system bus

Memory Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support for 667 and 533 MHz DDR2 DIMMs
Support for up to 8 GB of system memory
Support ECC and non-ECC memory

Chipset Intel® 955X Chipset
I/O Control LPC Bus I/O controller
Audio Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem
LAN Support Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82573E/82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Peripheral Interfaces Eight USB 2.0 ports
One serial port
One parallel port
Four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID support
One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
One diskette drive interface
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports

Expansion Capabilities Four PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI Conventional bus connector 2)
One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector
One Secondary PCI Express x16/x4 bus add-in card connector
One PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connectors


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[Susquehannock]

Your system will support SATA drives :

' ' Four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID support ' '

Serial ATA = SATA

I have the 200gb Barracuda drive and am very happy with it. Seagate are what go into all my builds.
best of luck. 🙂

P. S. - If going SATA make sure your PSU has the SATA power connectors. or
an adapter is OK too.

 

[kitkat22]

Well, in all honesty you have a choice. You can either go IDE or SATA. Simply put the SATA gives a better performance edge compared to IDE. Seagate is a good brand and you won't be disappointed. Look for a hard drive that has 7200rpms (I think SATA only has 7200rpms) 8MB of cache and whatever size of HD that will fit your budget.

Here's a good one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

 

[Crescent13]

Seagate makes really good hard drives, probably the best. There is no such thing as SATA 100, and as long as the hard drive is SATA not SATA II it should work fine. But why are you buying an intel MoBo? Is this a build from scratch, or are you just upgrading? If this is a new build I highly reccomend buying AMD instead.

 

[quanttrade99z]

Crescent13,

It is a build from scratch.
I'm not too knowledgable aboue hardward-stuff. I was just going to follow the
ANATECH guide which says the INTEL new dual-processor is the way to go:

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2478

I guess the INTEL price is much cheaper than the AMD one...
Do you think it is a big mistake to go with the INTEL dual-processor?

THanks!
quant_trading

 

[BigCoolJesus]

Originally posted by: quanttrade99z
Crescent13,

It is a build from scratch.
I'm not too knowledgable aboue hardward-stuff. I was just going to follow the
ANATECH guide which says the INTEL new dual-processor is the way to go:

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2478

I guess the INTEL price is much cheaper than the AMD one...
Do you think it is a big mistake to go with the INTEL dual-processor?

THanks!
quant_trading

The AMD X2's (dual cores) are much better then the Intel's

and price wise, AMD has always been the better bargain (ie, cheaper)

If your going Dual Core, there is no reason not to go with AMD

 

[kitkat22]

In all honesty there is nothing wrong with Intel, but AMD is a better choice. What type of budget are we looking at? I second everyone elses opinion on AMD.

 

[quanttrade99z]

I can spend whatever I need to for this computer...
But I'm just going to be running normal business apps on it (email/office/itunes/etc etc).

But I want it to be able to switch betweens aps very quickly and be extra stable.

Thanks!
quant_trading

 

[shoRunner]

Originally posted by: cscpianoman
Well, in all honesty you have a choice. You can either go IDE or SATA. Simply put the SATA gives a better performance edge compared to IDE. Seagate is a good brand and you won't be disappointed. Look for a hard drive that has 7200rpms (I think SATA only has 7200rpms) 8MB of cache and whatever size of HD that will fit your budget.

Here's a good one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

ZERO peformace difference between IDE and SATA if its the same drive.

Originally posted by: Crescent13
and as long as the hard drive is SATA not SATA II it should work fine. .

SATA II (IO) will work on regular SATA controllers, just without the extra SATA II (IO) features