KiltedFool
Senior member
Okie, my wife's rig is built on a Shuttle nForce2 motherboard in a Sonata. To allow her to edit camcorder footage and make DVDs, I got her pinnacle studio plus and a DVD burner.
She has two Seagate 80 GB drives in her machine. The software is installed on one drive, the other is purely for data.
Little did I know, Mrs. Fool has become a camera bug and is filling up the data drive at a rapid pace, so I'm going to need to upgrade her total storage.
I like Seagate drives of late, long warranty, quiet. I'd like to get a 2-300 GB Seagate drive for her, and am looking for recommends.
Should I get a PCI card to add extra IDE channels? I can swap out the existing data drive and use it elsewhere or put in a new card.
Should I get PATA or SATA? Never worked with anything but PATA, don't know if SATA is going to add legitimate performance, don't even know which flavors I can get the most bang for the buck out of.
The comp's not going to see heavy upgrades, maybe a graphics card, it's running an XP 2100 Palomino and onboard GF4 MX onboard on XP Pro.
Looking for the best performance bang for the buck on a large Seagate drive.
Thanks
She has two Seagate 80 GB drives in her machine. The software is installed on one drive, the other is purely for data.
Little did I know, Mrs. Fool has become a camera bug and is filling up the data drive at a rapid pace, so I'm going to need to upgrade her total storage.
I like Seagate drives of late, long warranty, quiet. I'd like to get a 2-300 GB Seagate drive for her, and am looking for recommends.
Should I get a PCI card to add extra IDE channels? I can swap out the existing data drive and use it elsewhere or put in a new card.
Should I get PATA or SATA? Never worked with anything but PATA, don't know if SATA is going to add legitimate performance, don't even know which flavors I can get the most bang for the buck out of.
The comp's not going to see heavy upgrades, maybe a graphics card, it's running an XP 2100 Palomino and onboard GF4 MX onboard on XP Pro.
Looking for the best performance bang for the buck on a large Seagate drive.
Thanks
