Seagate 7200.7 160gb - I need a good replacement.

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MrTwister1

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I built my new system nearly 1 year ago now. I chose to get the Seagate 7200.7 160gb as my primary hd. It is SATA drive with NCQ. I think I am costing myself some performance as I know there are faster drives out there.

What can I buy for around $100.00 that will give me a performance boost. I also have a 200gb maxtor that I use as a storage drive. I will be keeping that one.

I would like to stay with Seagate if possible. My computer stays on 24/7 and I know Seagate drives are bullet proof. I have never had a problem with drive or any Seagate for that matter.
 
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What applications do you use that would benefit from an incremental increase in throughput and a very slight decrease in seek time? There's always a faster/bigger/better/cooler version of some component.

The newer series Seagate's, 7200.8 I think, are rumoured to have issues.

If you've seen benchmarks comparing the 7200.7 with other drives and the other drives are superior, why not purchase one of the drives from the benchmark?
 
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MrTwister1

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Originally posted by: jonesthewine
What applications do you use that would benefit from an incremental increase in throughput and a very slight decrease in seek time? There's always a faster/bigger/better/cooler version of some component.

The newer series Seagate's, 7200.8 I think, are rumoured to have issues.

If you've seen benchmarks comparing the 7200.7 with other drives and the other drives are superior, why not purchase one of the drives from the benchmark?
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I do quite a bit of gaming, web surfing, stock streaming, video playing and editing, and photo editing (non-professionally of course).
 
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Originally posted by: MrTwister1
Originally posted by: ribbon13
WD2500KS
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Why do u pick that drive?
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Presumably because it's faster and it's in the same sort of ballpark as your current drive in terms of storage and cost.

The WD4000KD would be even better but only if you want to go for a 400Gig drive.
 
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Editing Video and Photos and running several apps aimultaneously all consume RAM. If all that you want is for your computer to feel "snappier" , it's going to be your quickest and most sensible fix. There'll be a time soon when you'll be glad you have 2GB and RAM is fairly cheap at the moment.

With 2GB you'll find that you'll be hitting the page file a lot less often. Things stored in RAM are much more quickly accessed than if they're stored on a HDD.
 
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