which one should i choose

kevinf2090

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i am trying to get a sata drive. i am deciding between these two. this or this. also this is my first time going with sata. i have another 40 thats regular ata, and 2 cd drives. do i just put the serial ata drive on the nforce sata ports, the 40 gig on the primary master and the 2 opticals on the secondary master and slave.
 

mOeeOm

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Originally posted by: kevinf2090
i am trying to get a sata drive. i am deciding between these two. this or this. also this is my first time going with sata. i have another 40 thats regular ata, and 2 cd drives. do i just put the serial ata drive on the nforce sata ports, the 40 gig on the primary master and the 2 opticals on the secondary master and slave.

The maxtor...

Cheaper and 16mb cache, the only thing the seagate has on the maxtor is the +2 year warranty.
 

Fullmetal Chocobo

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Meh... This is completely a person thing, but I would go with Maxtor of those. But I prefer neither. The 7200.9 160gb I recieved would not work at all (something with the model, not the drive itself apparently). I went with a 160gb Hitachi, and it worked beautifully.
 

kevinf2090

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but does the SATAII make a lot of difference over SATA regular. are there any benchmarks that i can see
 

mOeeOm

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Originally posted by: kevinf2090
but does the SATAII make a lot of difference over SATA regular. are there any benchmarks that i can see

No difference, the only thing that makes the difference is the 16mb v.s 8mb cache. I don't think HDs can even run at Sata2 yet.
 

imported_electron

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Originally posted by: mOeeOm
Originally posted by: kevinf2090
but does the SATAII make a lot of difference over SATA regular. are there any benchmarks that i can see

No difference, the only thing that makes the difference is the 16mb v.s 8mb cache. I don't think HDs can even run at Sata2 yet.

Maybe the hard drive internals can't but the cache can, can't it?