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New Hard Drive

segasega · 2006-04-29 13:18:29

Looking to get a new IDE hard drive, I want something round the 300g make. Do you think I should go with this: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=309274 for €115 or for a extra €3 get this: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307497 which has 20G more. Think I trust Maxtor DiamondMax a bit more, but just want to see what…

29-04-2006 1:18pm

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segasega

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Looking to get a new IDE hard drive, I want something round the 300g make.
Do you think I should go with this: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=309274 for €115 or for a extra €3 get this: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307497 which has 20G more.

Think I trust Maxtor DiamondMax a bit more, but just want to see what people have to say.

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#2 29-04-2006 1:21pm

AnCapaillMor

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The 300 has 16mb cache as oppose to the 320 with only 8. i'd go for the 300.

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#3 29-04-2006 4:46pm

segasega

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Good point! Ye think I was going to go with that anyway, there good. I have a 120G at the moment.

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#4 29-04-2006 4:52pm

SeanW

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Maxtor Hard drives in my experience kick major tail. Go for the 300GB one.

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