Dumb question, hard drives
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Dumb question, hard drives
so i have a 80 gig right, and i think im goin to buy like a 250-300 gig one, but my question is, can i buy one, and then use them both at the same time? so like they are both in my computer and i can save stuf to ether one? And can i use one or the other primarily so like my comp isnt slow from lots of stuff stored? i dont know if this makes sense to you but please reply.
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That proves ... ?boganbusman wrote:I have 2 Maxtor HD's and they work fineJmac- wrote: I'd stay away from Maxtor ...
I've been building computers for several years and used to always use Maxtor drives ... In the last few years, about 1/5 of the computers I've built using Maxtor drives have had problems, which is way too high for me to use them anymore. The other ~80% are still fine as far as I know. Since switching over to Samsung/Seagate for the computers I build last year, I haven't heard of a single HDD-related problem, although the Samsungs are noticably slower (but quieter).
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The first SATA drive that I bought was from Maxtor an it broke right away. Immediately BIOS had trouble finding it and soon it died completely. Well I got new one to replace it with and it's been working just fine.
I gotta say that I used to also think that Maxtor drives are gr8, but the next one I buy is propably not gonna be a Maxtor.
I gotta say that I used to also think that Maxtor drives are gr8, but the next one I buy is propably not gonna be a Maxtor.
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Serial ATA = SATA (New ATA + faster)
IDE = Old ATA + slower
SCSI = a bus/port that hard drives use. SCSI/IDE Bus is the interface that your motherboard uses to communicate with your IDE/ATA drives
higher RPMs better, but only if you can adequetely cool it. higher RPM drives tend to get hotter quickly. higher RPM = faster write speed
Buffers = how much information the hard drive can store before having a need to write it. probably not the best definition, but maybe i can give you an example: you send 32 MB to a hard drive with a 8 MB buffer. the data will be sent 8 MB at a time, because the buffer basically tells how much the hard drive can handle at once. it's like a temporary storage on the hard drive before the drive writes the data. the time difference is so small that most of the time it isn't even noticable, but a bigger buffer is usually better, especially with higher capacity drives.
IDE = Old ATA + slower
SCSI = a bus/port that hard drives use. SCSI/IDE Bus is the interface that your motherboard uses to communicate with your IDE/ATA drives
higher RPMs better, but only if you can adequetely cool it. higher RPM drives tend to get hotter quickly. higher RPM = faster write speed
Buffers = how much information the hard drive can store before having a need to write it. probably not the best definition, but maybe i can give you an example: you send 32 MB to a hard drive with a 8 MB buffer. the data will be sent 8 MB at a time, because the buffer basically tells how much the hard drive can handle at once. it's like a temporary storage on the hard drive before the drive writes the data. the time difference is so small that most of the time it isn't even noticable, but a bigger buffer is usually better, especially with higher capacity drives.
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thanx prince, and yes im comfortable opening it up, i have ide on this one, 2 whole gigs of it! Hey so what do the new serial ata ones look like where they plug into mobo? is it near where the ide's are? so i bought this comp from the D.I and it was 3$, thats right 300 pennies, it has 95 on it and it actually runs pretty dang darn good!
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