Hard Drive questions

BrahmaBull · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject: Hard Drive questions

well after some good help and my past few weeks of research i ordered a mobo and a P4 2.4G...this first building adventure should be fun

...anyways im looking at getting a brand new Hard Drive..size of atleast 60Gb...are their specific specs to look at? and is their a big difference between a 2MB Buffer and an 8MB? is that the biggest spec?

thanks guys.

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geekzta127 · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:58 pm Post subject:

first make sure your board supports whatever HD your getting(66, 100, 133, etc.)-SATA--SCSI--RAPTOR

and yes 8mb would make it a bit faster for a while until the buffers full so yea 8mb is better than 2mb.

so i'd say you should get a 100/133 HD w/ 8mb. and 2 40 gigs for raid if you have that feature.

mogur · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

Congrats, Brahma ! ! ! Too late to chicken out now, brother. In a couple weeks, you'll be the swami of assembly, the conquistador of configuration, and the envy of your entourage. Well, maybe not that last one.

There's a lot of hard drives to pick from, and except for the raptors and scsi drives, they're not priced much different, so assuming you can't go for the raptors, an 8meg, 7200rpm sata drive is a good choice. If you find a great deal on an 8meg, 7200rpm pata drive, though, that would also be a great choice.

geekzta127 · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject:

mogur don't come to conclusions

we have to see how much money and space he has and needs.

BrahmaBull how much are you focused on spending. round to the 10's
and how much HD space do you want.