I'm ordering a Hard Drive in 3 hours, Please & Thank You

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Sforsyth
Well I found out my MB dosen't have SATA, I'm going with the Maxtor it has 3 year warrenty so I'm don't care about the other 2 years, thanks for all your help !

Good Luck. Hope Ya like it.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

Originally posted by: LED

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: shady06
seagate

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[aatf510]

Both are great, but if prices are similar. Maxtor definately.

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
You should probably find out if your motherboard supports SATA before you buy the Seagate if you don't know already.

Oh, and look inside your case too to see if you need to get a power adapter for it.

Do you have a SATA cable already too?

I'd go with the Seagate too.

Originally posted by: Sforsyth
Does anyone have alink to a or a Picture of what the Power cable adapter looks like ? ...
Thanks for all your help !!!

GREAT advice as ALWAYS YOyoYOhowsDAjello 😀

Just a couple of comments to you Sforsyth:

Between those two hd choices I would also go with the Seagate. The reasons include their short access time, good real world performance, 5 year warranty and low noise levels.

However, it was pointed out to me in my hard drive thread over here that there are some NOISE differences between the PATA 7200.7 Seagates and any of the 7200.7 or the 7200.8 SATA Seagates.

I went to Seagate's website and discovered the Seagate Drive from your choices is a 7200.8 series SATA drive. It seems that because of litigation that Seagate is involved in concerning their AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) algorithm that one cannot activate AAM on a 7200.7 or 7200.8 series SATA drive. This means that a 7200.8 series SATA drive (like the one you're considering) may be a little louder than a 7200.7 series PATA drive with AAM enabled. I'm just pointing this out if noise is important to you.

Also, about the link to a picture of what the 4 pin molex to SATA connector looks like - I cannot link directly to the pic at this website. But if you go to the link with info about this motherboard and double click on the little photos towards the upper left and look closely at the two connectors at the bottom ot the THIRD picture in the series you can see what the adaptors look like.

I see someone here has offered to ship you one so it looks like you are in business but if you want to see for yourself what they actually look like, just follow the above instructions.

Greg

 

[NokiaDude]

Seagate. SATA isn't faster but the cables kick ass.

 

[daniel1113]

I wouldn't trade my DM10's for any other 7200 RPM SATA hard drives, but the new Seagate drives are mighty fine.

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Seagate. SATA isn't faster but the cables kick ass.

Originally posted by: daniel1113
I wouldn't trade my DM10's for any other 7200 RPM SATA hard drives, but the new Seagate drives are mighty fine.

Sorry, it appears that MORE than one of us didn't see in your post message title that there was a 3 hour window from 05/06/2005 02:21 PM in which you were ordering your hard drive. Even some of the people on page one replied AFTER this three hour time limit.

Sorry if I wasted your time if you've already purchased your hard drive on 05-06-05 !

 

[Bombastic Flasher]

get maxtor it is ten times better in my opinion.