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difference in these harddrives?

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by born2ride, Nov 21, 2007.

  1. born2ride

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    i would go wit the western digital rather than the seagate

    better brand and twice the buffering
     
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    oops buffering is the same but WD rocks
     
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    i dont know about WD cause i never had to send one back but warranty with seagate is painfully slow and unrewarding
     
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    Seagate's repair process is really fast, as is WDs. They're both good brands, you can go with either. WD drives are usually quieter, however, but still offer blazing performance (It's also worth mentioning that Seagate 500GB drives get quite hot)
     
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    Thank you for your response. how do you know its a seagate drive?
    is it a fair price from dell or should i look else where?
     
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    sammorris
    your quick!!!! that seem to be a good price i might have one soon!!!
    then i will have more boring question:)
     
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    Sure, go for it. :)
     
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    Newegg's down for me at the moment, but I'm going to assume it's a S-ATA hard drive you're buying, so you'll need a S-ATA cable.
    [​IMG]
     
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    ok i was not sure if it was just another cable or if it was a new one with a double jumper on it to go to both hd
     
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    No, with internal S-ATA it's a simple matter of one cable per drive.
    Does your power supply have any S-ATA power connectors?
     
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    it looks to have two cables in the existing drive and next to other slot appears to have a 4 heavy wire connector which matches the other drive one.so i am assuming its the power feed..
     
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    This is what you're after (it sounds right from your description)
    [​IMG]
     
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    That's a fascinating motherboard layout, never seen anything like it!
    To answer your question though, it should go next to the orange cable towards the bottom of the picture.
     
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    your too quick i added another question in red on the last one
    what is different about the mb?
     
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    I've never seen a board with S-ATA ports right next to the ATX power connector. Typically they're on opposite sides of the board. As for which cable you want, a S-ATA 2 cable (3Gbps) ideally. The only thing you mustn't get is an e-SATA cable.
     

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