harddisk recommendation

lankor

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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...
 

jcmkk

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

lankor

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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

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

saltedeggman

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<< 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.