Hey, Im looking at getting a new hdd for christmas and want one at least 300gb or more. I was wondering what would be best to get based on performance, noise level, ect, and a good price. I live in australia. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I848P(-L) Thanks, alien13
looks as if you have an older 1.5 SATA connection ,not the newer 3.0 SATA2 You can still get the newer type, in case you upgrade your mobo in the future. It will work, only at the slower speed, you probably wont even notice a difference. Brand names most people endorse are Western Digital and Seagate, I havent had any problems with Maxtors in the 4 years I have had those drives but others dont talk of them as well as I do. I do not know about Aussie webpages or where to purchase these things, but this should be a good start.
OK, thanks Yeah, i have a seagate in my old computer and its been working good for about 6+ years. I currently have a maxtor in the old one and its great
No problems. I currently use a 74GB Western Digital Raptor (10,000RPM, not standard 7200RPM) for my primary drive with windows, it really speeds up start-up and load times. I use a 250GB Maxtor for all my storage. No problems with either so if you know where to purchase from in your part of the world, you cant go wrong.
Ah, cool. Yeah. Thats what I want to do. Have a big hdd for storage like, games, movies, music, ect. This site is pretty good with prices : http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/ If you have the time would you care to have a look at some drives and what you would recommened? You can take aslong as you need theres still a few months till christams
I looked and on that website it looked as if Western Digital has the best deals. You can have (all Sata3000) a 320GB, 400GB or 500GB depending on your needs or finances. I looked at a favorite purchasing site, www.newegg.com, and I can get the same things about 30 - 50 Aussie dollars cheaper than that site. i dont think they do international delivery. If you arent worried about Sata1500 vs sata300 you can even go cheaper than that. I was only trying to "future-proof" you purchase so it will work in a new build 5 years from now.
one more idea - get a raid card and buy cheaper (less mb's) drives and connect in a Raid 0. EX: you could buy four 120gb drives and hook them up in a raid 0 and the system would run like it had ONE 480 gb drive at 4x the speed of a single drive. The reason I say this, is because those companies that sell very large drives want a pretty penny for them, and raid cards are cheap. Just something to think about if you want performance.
UGC -- Great point. I dont use that setup, don't know enough about it. I wasnt going to suggest something to someone that i couldnt backup. When Alien13 decides to go forward with this (original post said X-mas gift) prices and brands and storage sizes might change by then: they change frequently, but for now I think all the options are covered.
