Help me choose a new hard drive

[PizzaDude]

I'm about to build a new system with the following:

2500 XP Barton retail (about to buy)
Shuttle AN35 mobo (about to buy)
512mb Kingston pc-3200 (about to buy)
Antec case with 350w PS (about to buy)
Lite-On 16x dvd-rom (already have)
Lite-On 411s 4x dvd-rw (already have)
GeForce4 Ti4200 (already have)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (already have)
Dell 1800FP (already have)
Logitech Elite keyboard (already have)
Logitech mx300 mouse (about to buy)
Klipsch Promedia 2.1 (already have)

It obviously needs a hard drive. I don't know what to get. I know I want either an ATA 133/100 drive to be run internally EIDE, etc. No raid, no SATA, nothing too special. The computer will be used for music, gaming, email/web surfing, word, etc.

I think I know for sure that I want an 8mb cache on whichever drive i choose. I've looked at Western Digital and Seagate and I really want to get the Seagate but I can't find one under 80gb. All I need is a 40gb or a 60 gb hard drive for this system.

I'm trying to stay away from the Western Digitals because they've had issues lately with sound and performance. I have had good experience with seagate in both areas and I want to continue with them if I could, but I need help finding the 8mb cache version in a smaller size. Newegg only has a 120gb version of this drive.

Any ideas? Any other suggestions for hard drives of any other of my compionents that are marked (about to buy)?

Thanks.

 

[nick1985]

go with a seagate. they are greaat IMO.

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[soulflyfan]

Dabs.com have a 40GB version for £40GBP, so they definitely exist

 

[Corey0808]

I would just set a budget price and see what you can get with that. Nothing wrong with having extra space. Plus I think bigger harddrives perform better too.

 

[PizzaDude]

Originally posted by: nick1985
go with a seagate. they are greaat IMO.

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This one would be great if it wasn't SATA. I'm gonna check this "Dabs.com" quick to look for the 40gb one.

 

[PizzaDude]

Looks like I'm going to end up getting the 120gb version. I really want a Seagate 8mb so this looks like the way to go.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: Corey0808
I would just set a budget price and see what you can get with that. Nothing wrong with having extra space. Plus I think bigger harddrives perform better too.

Not always.

Sometimes smaller is faster.