Hard Drive Question

[dbarks]

As of today what is the best (brand, size, type) hard drive to buy for a desktop system?

[TotalCarnage]

I personally prefer Western Digital. If you have Serial ATA capability get one of those. Don't buy less than 7200 RPM with 8MB cache. ATA100 performs quite well. You must be patched to SP1a or above in XP to see a 160GB or larger drive. Some bios won't see over 120

[dbarks]

Do I get better load times with smaller hard drives (in other words) do I get petter performance with a single 200GB or 2 100GB drives?

[Succubus]

I personally don't trust anything over 160GB because a friend of mine has had 2 200GB drives crash (no way to recover data). I have a WD 120GB ATA100 7200RPM drive that I partitioned into 2 smaller drives and that works really well. My main drive is an 80GB WD ATA100 7200RPM drive that is also partitioned into 3 drives (main for windows and programs that require running on C: drive), Page File drive and another drive for programs I use most.

[ExpendableCrew]

I run my C-64 with 2 . . . yea that's right buddy . . . 2 5.25 floppy drives. Read em and weep. I'm going back to making copies of my disks now. (Whhhhrrrrrrrrrr Whhhhrrrrrrrrr)


:D

[TotalCarnage]

Originally posted by dbarks
Do I get better load times with smaller hard drives (in other words) do I get petter performance with a single 200GB or 2 100GB drives?

No, rule of thumb with IDE is that performance degrades after you reach 50% capacity then declines from there. Most noticably once you hit 75%. I recommend two drives minimum for most systems. One fr hte OS and business APPS. One to run your games from.

[TotalCarnage]

I personally run two 80's and a 160. I've heard of no issues with 200+GB drives either. As a matter of fact WD's is rated very good. Do not partition your drive though. I can't see a single logical reason to do so and you gain nothing in performance.

[Rudejets]

Originally posted by ExpendableCrew
I run my C-64 with 2 . . . yea that's right buddy . . . 2 5.25 floppy drives. Read em and weep. I'm going back to making copies of my disks now. (Whhhhrrrrrrrrrr Whhhhrrrrrrrrr)


:D

I challenge your C-64 to battle with my Tandy 1000 SL also with a whopping 2 5.25 floppy drives and NO Hard drive at all. woo hoo

[dbarks]

Dude step into the 90's 3 1/2 inch floppy drives are were it's at. They Fit into your pocket man.

I know someone will make a dick joke now that I have said 3 and a half inch

[ExpendableCrew]

Originally posted by dbarks
Dude step into the 90's 3 1/2 inch floppy drives are were it's at. They Fit into your pocket man.

In the distance Euro turns to look behind him as if someone in a far away place is calling his name.


:D

[Euroranger]

I've got all you posers beat. I started my illustrious computer adventures on...and I'm sure this will go uncommented on :rolleyes:...a Wang that read punchcards.

I recall vividly "writing" my first program in Basic by punching out holes in a stack of cards and then loading them into a hopper to run.

Needless to say, debugging was a cast-iron bitch. :D

[TotalCarnage]

pfftt..been there done that in 7th grade. Damn thing was the size of an old style icebox. WE did it in assembly, cobol or fortran, not new age Basic ;)

[Grandpa]

We used Wangs in the military. It was the first computer that we developed an automated reporting system for wartime contingency operations. My job was to develop intelligence scenarios for all theaters of operation - especially European and Pacific.

Gramps

Also did the punch card and 5-level paper tape stuff in the military. Then we got an "Iron Horse system!"

[dbarks]

Fortran on Paper Tape on a DG in 75 then, puchcards on an IBM 75 then my first CRT was an HP3000 Fortran 77 in 78.

In other words I'm so old I fart dust.

[EviL McGyver]

the joys of shuffling punchcards that 'smart' coders NEVER marked with #'s in the bottom corners.....hehe...;)

I remember playing lunar lander on my dads TI-52 calculator :D

EM

[dbarks]

And the winner of the subtle swerve award goes to "CREW" but I have placed an order for 2 sata 120gb. (and slowly his creations begins to come together)

[ExpendableCrew]

Originally posted by dbarks
And the winner of the subtle swerve award goes to "CREW" but I have placed an order for 2 sata 120gb. (and slowly his creations begins to come together)

wOOt!!!

:D

[Grandpa]

Originally posted by dbarks
Dude step into the 90's 3 1/2 inch floppy drives are were it's at. They Fit into your pocket man.

Wow, some how I hit edit after you made this post instead of "quote," but I didn't want you to be disappointed dbarks.


I know you've been having problems with your floppy dbarks, but 3 1/2 inches...man, you need to take it out of the freezer dude! :)

Gramps

[dbarks]

Originally posted by Grandpa
Wow, some how I hit edit after you made this post instead of "quote," but I didn't want you to be disappointed dbarks.


I know you've been having problems with your floppy dbarks, but 3 1/2 inches...man, you need to take it out of the freezer dude! :)

Gramps


Dude step into the 90's 3 1/2 inch floppy drives are were it's at. They Fit into your pocket man.



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Only 24 hours the Team HiFi restraint metter goes off the chart. W00t Wooooooooo

I'm glad it was Gramps and not Crew, I don't want him think about my floppy.