Looking for a hard drive...

[TheGeek]

I'm looking to upgrade my 80GB IDE HDD to something faster. I'm looking for a 250GB SATA drive, but I have a few questions. First, would 16MB cache make much of a difference over 8MB? and would SATAII be any faster than SATA? Either way, the drive will have NCQ. Any suggestions/drive recommendations? thanks

 

[TheGeek]

bump

 

[w00t]

the 16mb of cache had performance increase. No, SATA2 is pointless its a marketing scam the hd's now cant utilize 1.5gbs so why do they release sata2 at 3.0gbs?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

wait for seagate's 7200.9 lineups or get a 250gig 7200.8 now. it's all you'll ever need.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Here's some benchmarks for you of current drives

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2454