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Performance SATA Hardrive

Jimmy365 · 2006-01-16 12:23:41

I was looking for a high capacity (say 250 / 300 GB) 3.5" SATA / SATA 2 (whats the difference) harddrive to go into a gaming rig i'm planning to build. Was going to go with a 74G Raptor & another. There's so many of the things out there and so many conflicting reviews as to what best performing after the Raptor, im lost!!…

16-01-2006 12:23pm

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Jimmy365

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I was looking for a high capacity (say 250 / 300 GB) 3.5" SATA / SATA 2 (whats the difference) harddrive to go into a gaming rig i'm planning to build.

Was going to go with a 74G Raptor & another.

There's so many of the things out there and so many conflicting reviews as to what best performing after the Raptor, im lost!!

Could anyone suggest which drive I should go for? Buying from Komplett

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#2 16-01-2006 12:32pm

WizZard

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Raptors are the fastest, I use two for my boot drives. Get another large drive , perhaps a 400gb(!) for storage.

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#3 16-01-2006 12:39pm

Stephen

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The difference between SATA and SATA2 is the interface speed - SATA is 150 MB/s SATA2 is 300 MB/s. This makes no difference to most users though, since the disks are still not as fast as the SATA 1 interface speed.

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#4 16-01-2006 1:44pm

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You would need 4 sataII disk drives in raid to see any performance increase.
The main thing to look for are cache(preferably 16mb), NCQ and hot plugging enabled.

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