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.
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...
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