new hd's

[vorlen]

Hey guys I just ordered 2 160gb 7200rpm Seagate Baracudas for 200.00 shipped. Do you think these are good drives?

 

[wfbberzerker]

yep, seagates are very good drives, and with a 5 year warranty, you can't go wrong.

 

[thegimp03]

Nice deal. :beer:

 

[islandtechengineers]

what are your plans for them?

 

[Yanagi]

pr0n collection?

Seriously though, thats nice. Are you gonna raid them or leave them standalone?

 

[vorlen]

Well, I'm going to try and raid them. There pata drives so I dont know if that harder to do or not or even worth it. Oh and I'm using them for mp3's and music recording. I do alot of multi tracking in cubase. Plus I do alot of dvi home movies. It seems like I'm always deleting something to make room.

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: thegimp03
Nice deal. :beer:

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: vorlen
Well, I'm going to try and raid them. There pata drives so I dont know if that harder to do or not or even worth it. Oh and I'm using them for mp3's and music recording. I do alot of multi tracking in cubase. Plus I do alot of dvi home movies. It seems like I'm always deleting something to make room.

you might just want to keep them as two separate drives, one for your os/what you're working on, the other one for storage. raid is probably an unneccesary risk in your case.

 

[Oyeve]

I have 2 of those and they actually test slightly faster than my SATA Maxtor! Seagate makes a great drive imo.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: vorlen
Hey guys I just ordered 2 160gb 7200rpm Seagate Baracudas for 200.00 shipped. Do you think these are good drives?

how come you ask after you buy?

luckily for you they kick ass

 

[jpeyton]

PATA IDE RAID =

 

[Zepper]

Both Storage Review and Anandtech say DO NOT BOTHER WITH RAID-0 for single-user desktop systems. I agree.
.bh.