Hi,

I want to build myself a new pc, this one is being passed on to a poor
student friend.
I am planning on installing 2 SATA hard drives in a RAID stripe array on an
ABIT mobo (havent decided which model yet).

Could you guys recommend some good quality harddrive models, which are known
for being quiet and fast. I am looking at 160-200GB each.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:07:04 +0100, billybronco wrote:

UK mag PC Plus Nov 2004 , Issue 222
Samsung Spinpoint P80
80/120/160GB in both PATA or SATA, memory 2M or 8M, all 7200RPM.

They say, "P80 is a good value SATA solution with the added bonus of
being gratifyungly inaudible in operation" Value Award PC Plus Nov 2004.
(last date is which issue reviewed in)

Me

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:07:04 +0100, "billybronco"
<none@nonenoennoene.com> wrote:

Frankly I think you'd be better off with a 74GB WD Raptor as
primary/OS drive and a 200GB Seagate as 2nd drive (not
RAID0).

billybronco wrote:

You can't go wrong with Western Digital.

I have a P80 (160gig) and the thing is so quiet the only way I know it's on
is the lights on the front of the PC.

--
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where
THEY went." ~Will Rogers~

If I were going to get the best, I'd go with Seagate:

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/...ex/1,,,00.html

Al Smith, <invalid@address.com>, the priggish, gestational miscreant, and
chimney sweep, dislodged:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!! Ok, so what would someone who really knew a good
disk actually choose?

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In article <b2c6c10ea37048018915006416ee9052@news-text.bhandari.pvt.np> kadbitcha <nospam@rainx.cjb.net> wrote:
Would you like to talk more about your dreams?

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Lady Chatterly

"Apparently, Lady Chatterly is a Bot. S/he pops up on
alt.music.michael-jackson from time to time." -- Archie Leach

Dont know about that. I've had just as many WD drives go bad as IBM, Maxtor,
Quantum drives. Hell, even have a couple of drink coasters made from patters
from the last 2 WD drives that went bad.

If your going to go SATA I'd personaly recomend looking in to the companys
offering a min 3 yr warrenty and large caches. The newer Maxtor 7200rpm 16meg
cache drives will actualy meet or exceed the benchmarks of the 10,000rpm
Raptors. Plus you can get the 16meg drives up to at least 300gigs where as the
Raptors will only get you to 74gig. Last time I checked prices the Raptors were
hitting about $170 and the Maxtor 300gig's were running bout $200-220. Also
check articles on drives at places like Tomshardware.com and Anandtech.com,
they tend to have pretty comprehesive testing.

Good luck
~A

Lady Chatterly wrote:

Much better?

You don't think that I'm dumb, do you?

Do I look like I give a fuck?

What is there to talk about anyway?