Harddrives

Tanaraus

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Jul 13, 2001
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i'm looking to acquire a new harddrive for my system, so that I can dual-boot Win98 SE and Linux (version not determined yet). Currently I have a 16 Gig harddrive, and this is going to be used as my secondary drive with the Linux OS on it. For my primary drive (with Win98 SE on it), I am looking for something big and cheap. It doesn't have to have blazing speed, but I need something that can store a lot of data and has at least decent read/write speeds. I was looking on pricewatch, and I saw 40 gig drives going for $60 [generic] or $75 [IBM brand name]. If it wouldn't cost too much more, I'd like more space than that and I am also wondering about how smart it would be to buy generic? (Is it worth my money/time to invest in a brand name HD? Do they tend to not wear out as quickly?). The more opinions/responses I get the better, so lets get some input!

-Tanaraus
 

TunaBoo

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May 6, 2001
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Hard drive is the #1 bottle neck in a computer. Spend money on it.

You can get the fastest (give or take) IDE hard drive out there, a 40GB IBM 60GXP for 110 or so from newegg. Spend the little extra.