biggest best HD?

[muppet]

i see theres a SATA 400Gb Maxtor, but was wondering whether i should wait till the new native queue technology comes out, and when it will?

 

[InlineFive]

It has already been released, but precious few devices support it. The only chipset as of right now to support NCQ is the nForce-4.

 

[Vegito]

for 300/400 hdd, better off getting seagate with their 5 year warranty.. unless one is enough for you..

 

[muppet]

sorry it wasnt the Maxtor its a Hitachie Deskstar 7K400 that was the quickest 7200rpm SATA drive, but is slightly beaten by the new Maxtor Maxline III because of its 16mb cache, but the HD only goes up to 300gb at present.

damn monkeys

 

[mircea]

^^^^^^^^^ That maxtor it also has NCQ and is SATA II.

 

[muppet]

yeh the maxtor is the best but it aint big enough
i have emailed maxtor to see if they plan on releasing a 400gigger

 

[Tiamat]

I have the Seagate 400GB PATA for a media drive. Frankly, I dont believe that the speed improvements for SATA justify the additional 200$ cost. In addition, the speed improvements wont really do much if Im just watching anime, or listening to mp3s off of the harddrive. For OS and games, i have the Raptor 74GB.

BTW, with these platters, you have 7.5% loss, so you really get 372.x GB