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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?

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

That.

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

edit: w00t! zergling!

ARRR, tis a fine ship

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

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.

New harddisk = FAIL

Maxtor you suck!

DOA or first few hours?

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?

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.

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.

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

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.