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Hard Drive Selection

  • 18-08-2005 3:27pm
    #1
    roamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭


    Hello,
    I am looking to get a new drive or 2 for this machine. I want to have about 5-600GB of storage.

    Which hard disks should I purchase?

    Heres the spec...

    PowerEdge 800 - Non Hot Plug SCSI - P4 2.8GHz/1MB, 800FSB
    PE800 UK/IRE Power Cord - UK/IRE
    512MB 400Mhz Single Rank DDR2 Memory (2X256MB)
    No Floppy Drive option
    146GB SCSI Ultra320 (10,000rpm) 1in 68 pin Hard Drive
    PERC 4/SC single channel RAID card, 64MB cache, 1 int channels (U320)
    C8 Add-In NON HOT PLUG SCSI RAID 0, min1/max4



    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    smeggle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭smeggle


    prefer 'Seagate' drives myself. Find maxtors to be to noisy. Western Digital aren't a bad drive either but as I do a lot of music related stuff I use Seagate as there a very smooth running drive.

    Certain drives are terrible for music related projected especially the mentioned Maxtor drives..

    Anyway I'd recocommend Seagate or Western Digital as my choice.

    :)


  • #3
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    What drives can you plug into this machine, besides SCSI of course, as SCSI drives are very expensive, like

    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=306011&cks=PRL

    €2240 for 600gb storage space :eek:

    if you can plug in IDE/SATA lots cheaper


  • #4
    roamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭roamer


    is there anywhere you can get cheaper scsi drives?

    Can you have sata & scsi running together in some configuration??


  • #5
    Wandering Dazed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Wandering Dazed


    There are 4 sata ports on the 800 but obviously you won;t be able to raid them on the perc 4. Also I doubt Dell will support the mixed config.


  • #6
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    smeggle wrote:
    Certain drives are terrible for music related projected especially the mentioned Maxtor drives..

    Interested to know what makes you say this? Do you mean in terms of speed or what?

    How does music differ from other data?

    Just interested....


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  • #7
    stuey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭stuey


    just as a rule of thuum, you cant go wrong as long as you dont buy maxtor

    as a man who fixes and services pcs alll the time,i f i have hard drive problems about 85% of the time they are maxtor


  • #8
    Akula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Akula


    My maxtor hard drive just died. I'm coming around to that line of thinking.


  • #9
    rsynnott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    irlrobins wrote:
    Interested to know what makes you say this? Do you mean in terms of speed or what?

    How does music differ from other data?

    Just interested....

    It doesn't, at all. It also doesn't require high speed. There is a belief among the less scientific variety of "audiophile" that digital media affects sound quality; these people are idiots, however.


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