harddisk recommendation

[lankor]

i am sick and tired of my ibm gxp 60 60 gig..
going to rma it and hope they will send me a GXP 120 and gonna sell that off.

I will like to buy a new harddisk, sometime end of this week.
Which is the fastest now? i heard of some very large capacity disk like 120 gig which have a new 8 meg burst/cache and is supposing to be really fast.

any idea what brand and make is it? will prefer maxtor or western digital

cheers...

 

[Athlon4all]

Maxtor, WD, or Seagate are all solid. Can't go wrong with any of them

 

[jcmkk]

The Western Digital special edition drives are the ones with 8MB cache. They come in 100GB and 120GB sizes.

 

[lankor]

cool..that was what i have been looking for.
so what is the uses of this 8 meg cache.? does it make a real life improvement that can be felt and seen on the desktop, rather than from the manual.

cheers

 

[4824guy]

I also recommend the maxto Diamond Max plus series and the WD line, the are all good performers and solid values.

 

[saltedeggman]

<< cool..that was what i have been looking for.
so what is the uses of this 8 meg cache.? does it make a real life improvement that can be felt and seen on the desktop, rather than from the manual.

cheers >>



if you get the special edition of the WD drives with 8mb cache, it will make a difference in the real world, meaning you can feeling the difference in real word usage. The use of larger cache allow a much high burst transfer rate, because more data can be stored in the cache and can be able to be retrieve fast.

 

[lankor]

thanx for all the repiles guys..
thats very helpful..