New harddisk?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 6th, 2006, 15:58

Can anyone recommend a SATA harddrive that is 500GB, fast and quiet? I'm looking to upgrade my system disk. Also if my motherboard only supports up to 150MB/s would there be any problems with getting a 300MB/s one for a bit of future proofing?

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » April 6th, 2006, 16:03

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... uid=101942

This maybe?, dunno, can't be many 500gb drives around,
and a faster hard drive will happily run as slow as your motherboard

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 6th, 2006, 16:05

spoodie wrote:Can anyone recommend a SATA harddrive that is 500GB, fast and quiet?

I'm a big fan of maxtors, either way, 250gb is about the best GB/£ at the moment - you'll likely get 3-4 250gb HDDs for the price of one 500Gb drive.

I'm looking to upgrade my system disk. Also if my motherboard only supports up to 150MB/s would there be any problems with getting a 300MB/s one for a bit of future proofing?

none at all, SATA is backwards compatible.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 6th, 2006, 16:06

mrbobbins wrote:and a faster hard drive will happily run as slow as your motherboard

lies!

actually, no drives are capable of pushing 150MB/s, let alone 300.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 6th, 2006, 16:14

Maybe I'll just get another 250GB or lower then, there seems to be many more options with smaller sizes. How about a 10000rpm drive, worth it?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 6th, 2006, 16:19

spoodie wrote:Maybe I'll just get another 250GB or lower then, there seems to be many more options with smaller sizes.

yup, 250-odd is about best right now.

How about a 10000rpm drive, worth it?

sorta. if you use one as your windows, games, and paging drive, yes.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » April 6th, 2006, 16:21

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
mrbobbins wrote:and a faster hard drive will happily run as slow as your motherboard
lies!

actually, no drives are capable of pushing 150MB/s, let alone 300.

ATA133 hard drive, plug into ATA100 only motherboard, werks.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 6th, 2006, 16:30

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:sorta. if you use one as your windows, games, and paging drive, yes.

That's the plan; system files and games on the new, fast drive and everything else on the old drives. But having looked at the price and possible extra noise I think I'll step back from the bleeding edge and get a 7200rpm instead.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 6th, 2006, 16:42

That.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 7th, 2006, 11:08

This is the one I'm thinking about, good choice?: http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3XRL

edit: w00t! zergling!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 7th, 2006, 14:52

ARRR, tis a fine ship

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 7th, 2006, 18:31

Cheers dewdz, is ordered. Not looking forward to having to reinstall everything but it could probably do with a refresh.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » April 8th, 2006, 11:18

Yeah, once the degree is finished I'm going to do a reformat and get my OS and apps installed on the SATA drive and get everything running the way it should.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 16th, 2006, 12:05

New harddisk = FAIL

Maxtor you suck!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 16th, 2006, 12:07

DOA or first few hours?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 16th, 2006, 13:58

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:DOA or first few hours?

Well it sort of worked to start with but made the OS run extremely slowly due to heavy CPU usage from something. I created a partition then it stopped recognising the disk in the Computer Management application. I could go on. Also the PowerMAX diag CD shows problems with the basic test.

Maybe it's an imcompatibility issue and I've contacted Maxtor. Any thoughts?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 16th, 2006, 14:01

most likely it's just dead, usually HDDs will die when very new.

i'm quire surprised though, i've used maxtors exclusively for many years and never had a failiure.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 16th, 2006, 15:33

Yeah probably. I've had no problems with seagate and western digital drives over the years, I guess it's just luck of the draw.

Post by **deject** » April 16th, 2006, 18:59

I've heard that Maxtors have incomatibilities with nForce4 motherboards so that might be your problem if you have an nforce4 mobo.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 16th, 2006, 19:19

deject wrote:I've heard that Maxtors have incomatibilities with nForce4 motherboards so that might be your problem if you have an nforce4 mobo.

I read that too but mine is a nForce3. I'm returning it now so I'll find out if it is a compatibility problem when I get the replacement, it has the "feeling" of one but I hope I'm wrong.

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