Which HardDrive for Gaming?

[Beandog]

I am looking for a good 30 or 40GB Hard drive for Gaming, although most of the games I play are online like BF1942, DAOC, Tribes2. I don't do much large file transfer and don't really need storage over 40GB. There are lots of rebates out for the Maxtor now, My price after rebates and maybe a price match will be between $50 to $75. I am not up on the current differences and advantages in density, platter, so can't tell the difference between the various Maxtors and I def don't need the 8MB cache of the WD JB series, so there BB series are fine...so I am comparing WD to Maxtor at this point, but which Maxtor, or am I overlooking some other manufacturer? I will be building a new system, MSI KT3Ultra2, XP1600 OC, GF4 4200 OC, 512K Crucial 2100, SK800 with YS Tech 80mm Fan, Antec 1080AMG with 430TRU PS, so what Drive would go good with this system? Thanks in advance for any help?

 

[Maki]

Buy the cheapest.

 

[clicknext]

I don't have anything to tell you about your situation, but I just wanted to say that the 8MB cache WD drives are VERY good. I'm using one right now.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Maki
Buy the cheapest.

Yeah. Hard drive performance doesn't have much impact on games at all - only thing a fast hard drive can do is load levels or maps a little quicker. Get a 7200rpm drive if you can; it'll provide some improvement in random access time and transfer speeds, but a 5400 should be fine.
Unless you are constantly loading levels that are many tens or hundreds of megabytes, you probably wouldn't notice the difference between the two.
Check out the FS/T forum; drives in the 40-60 range pop up sometimes for around $1/GB, some of which are 7200rpm.

 

[l33t]

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