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Which drive?

cmdrdredd

cmdrdredd

Lifer
I've been eyeing a new 80GB 7200RPM ATA/100 drive. Would I be better with a Seagate or IBM? They have the best price that I've seen around. The IBM is the 120GXP model 7 The seagate is a Barracuda ATA IV.

or should I just splurge for a SATA card and a new seagate SATA 80GB drive? sure it's alot of dough but I'd like to have SATA anyway...whatcha think?
 
See my "I'll never buy another Maxtor product" post in this section... lots of opinions and information on choosing a drive.
 
I did but I'm looking for something other than "I hate maxtor" or "IBM sucks" I'm looking for what is the best right now!
 
They're both good options and you really can't go wrong with whichever one you choose.

If you want the advantages of thinner cables and moderately increased bandwidth potential, and don't mind paying a little extra for both the SATA drive and controller (if your mobo doesn't have native SATA support), go with SATA. On the other hand if you're likely to be satisfied with the already high performing parallel ATA/100 drives currently out, then stick with ATA/100.

But check out this review of SATA's advantages over PATA 🙂

 
Originally posted by: mrman3k
I heard that this coming year they will begin to use 16MB buffers, can anyone confirm this?
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I've seen those in laptop harddrives but not in desktops. It's already end of the year. 🙂 Don't think we'll be seeing the 16mb buffers anytime soon. Don't think it will be implemented anyhow.
 
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
I did but I'm looking for something other than "I hate maxtor" or "IBM sucks" I'm looking for what is the best right now!
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READ the whole thing and there's lots of personal experiences and recommendations.
 
If you have money to spare, forget Serial ATA... get an SCSI controller and get a nice SCSI drive... even a crappy SCSI drive will perform better than a good IDE drive... get a 10k SCSI and you won't be disappointed. Or, if you have good cooling in your case, go for the 15k SCSI drives.
 
I guess I'm an all western digital kinda guy... I have 4 western digital drives between 2 computers

(main rig: All 7200RPM | 40 Gig | 60 gig | 80 gig "8 Meg Cache")

(server: 7200RPM | 120 Gig)
 
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