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Best HD for under $100?

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gamer22

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What is the best hard drive for under $100? I was looking at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ 120GB 7200 RPM 8M Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive, but I'm not sure if it's the best. I want something that's quiet and fast.

Also, what is the difference between the ATA150 and the ATA100 version? I'm making a new system, so should I go with the ATA150?
 
Originally posted by: gamer22
What is the best hard drive for under $100? I was looking at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ 120GB 7200 RPM 8M Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive, but I'm not sure if it's the best. I want something that's quiet and fast.

Also, what is the difference between the ATA150 and the ATA100 version? I'm making a new system, so should I go with the ATA150?
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what are your space requirements? the 80GB sataII hitachis are fast, but i am not sure about noise...
 
Seagate is the only way to go when it comes to a combination of being quiet and reliable. It think Western Digital may be just a hair quieter than Seagate but Seagate would be my first choice. All of the Seagate SATA drives I have purchased have been running flawlessly 24/7 for one to two years now.

I would assume that the 150 has a somewhat faster transfer rate than the 100, so I would probably get that assuming it is compatible with the rest of your system hardware.

Good luck.
 
Originally posted by: wpshooter
Seagate is the only way to go when it comes to a combination of being quiet and reliable. It think Western Digital may be just a hair quieter than Seagate but Seagate would be my first choice. All of the Seagate SATA drives I have purchased have been running flawlessly 24/7 for one to two years now.

I would assume that the 150 has a somewhat faster transfer rate than the 100, so I would probably get that assuming it is compatible with the rest of your system hardware.

Good luck.
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the assumption that the 150 vs 100 ( i am assuming you are talking about sata150 vs ata100) is faster is incorrect. the bottlneck on hdds is not the interface, but the actual hardware in drive itselft. even the newest 15k u320 scsi hdds have a substained transfer rate of ~80MB/s. about the only difference betweent sata and ata is the cable, with some of the newer sata hdds taking advantae of ncq and such.

kind of like video cards, we have not saturated the bandwidth that agp 8x (even the 7800gtx) gives us so we really don't need pci-e, but it is, imo, for manf to get more money from us by making us think we need it.

also, the nice thing about the seagate is their nice, 5yr warranty.

gamer22 - are you running your memory as 4x512 or 2x1GB? also remember to find some type of backup system that fits your needs, even if it means burning files to a dvd-rw. you never know when a hdd will fail, i have a 7200rpm 9GB seagate that i have had since the time i built my "blazing fast" (back in the day) 450MHz AMD K6-2 and it is working fine, but i have had maxtor, wd, ibm(before hitachi made the drives) and just about every other manf hddd die on me except fujitsu scsi...
 
Are the Maxtor 16mb cache drives any good? I've heard they are very fast, however, I know most people aren't fans of Maxtor.
 
if ur using sata II, id go with one of the hitachi T7k250 drives, u can get 160gb under 100.

if not, id go seagate all the way. in fact, if seagate releases a sata II drive get that one =)
 
Originally posted by: Icopoli
Originally posted by: bob4432
Originally posted by: gamer22
I believe I will be running 2x1gb. Is 4x512 better?
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not for a64, i just wanted to make sure you are running 2x1GB
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He has a venice so there won't be an issue.
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from what i have read you still need to kick it down to ddr333 and it is still better to go with the 2 sticks instead of 4. since he is buying new i would go 2x1GB
 
Originally posted by: enwar3
if ur using sata II, id go with one of the hitachi T7k250 drives, u can get 160gb under 100.

if not, id go seagate all the way. in fact, if seagate releases a sata II drive get that one =)
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even if not, those sataII hdds are backward compatible with sata150
 
Lots of good advice here for you Gamer22. From the reports on this site from guys who buy way too much hardware, it sounds like (or not - a pun) that Seagates are a little quieter than the rest. And yes, 200-250 is around $100 if you look around.
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
Nope, with 4 sticks, all you have to do is go down to 2t. Your still DDR 400.
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i could have sworn you needed to go down to 333, but even so, if he hasn't bought the ram he would be better off with 2 sticks and run @ 1T
 
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