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I've got Windows on a 200GB, Games on a 250, and bunch of crap piled together on a 400. The 400 is almost full btw, but it's full of ISOs and stuff, which you can guess what they are.

pr0nz?

Yup... we're busted. We actually have an underground pr0n ring going on outside the forum. Did you want some? Only $20 a month get's you all the fake man-boobs you could want.

(Now, I'll give you a hint: it starts with to, and ends with another t.)

your sarcasm is noted in the sarcasm database.

Get back on topic.

I have a quick question for you guys. Sorry for the off-topic btw.

I decided to buy a new HD (see the reasons on my last posts on this topic ). I don't want to spend more than 50 Euro though, so I'm now facing this little decision. I'm going to buy one of these HD:

1. Western Digital 250 GB 16 MB SATA II (7200 RPM). 44 Euro

2. Western Digital 320 GB 16 MB SATA II (7200 RPM). 46 Euro

The price difference is really small, as you can see. So my doubt is: it is worth, on this case, to buy a 250 GB HD or a 320 GB HD? I already have an IDE with 500 GB. After I buy a SATA, I will use the IDE for backups, documents, .iso files (guess what they are) and so on. So the SATA will be used only to have the OS installed and programs / games.

I just want to know if the performance of the 1st choice is better or worse than the 2nd choice. It's just that... thanks anyone who answer.

Why don't you post a link, so we can see things like buffer sizes, average read times, etc... just the size and rotation speed aren't really enough; it's likely WD cut down on something like buffer size so they could offer 320GB for near a 250GB price.

...or you may have just found a really good deal.

The online shop I'm buying from doesn't have that much info about these products. However, I always use this shop to buy my stuff, it has the best prices in the whole country and they deliver by mail, so with a few clicks I can have everything at home in 1 or 2 days, which is great. The products are all great quality, the prices are the best and their delivery service is fast, safe and efficient.

I already bought two motherboards, two graphics card, ram, a monitor, a mouse, a power supply and a CPU. All delivered in less than 2 days. So far, everything working just like it should.

Oh btw, both HDs have the same cache size: 16 MB. The only difference I see is the price... but I think I'll buy the 250 GB one. I don't need that much space, actually I don't even have 100 GB used with the OS installed and all the other stuff (GTA IV and FSX take all this space = 35 GB xD). I think it's better for a performance to have a smaller HD... maybe lol. Any advice?

Hydro_PT wrote:Oh btw, both HDs have the same cache size: 16 MB. The only difference I see is the price... but I think I'll buy the 250 GB one. I don't need that much space, actually I don't even have 100 GB used with the OS installed and all the other stuff (GTA IV and FSX take all this space = 35 GB xD). I think it's better for a performance to have a smaller HD... maybe lol. Any advice?

Drive performance isn't really affected by its size. A 250GB will transfer and write data just the same as a 1000GB drive would, all other things being equal.

When choosing a new drive one should really look at (when size isn't an issue) warranty length and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures. Regular drives have mtbf values of 500000h to 750000h, higher quality (sometimes referred to as "raid edition") drives have mbtf's of 1250000h or more. )

That is to say, a drive with higher mtbf is more durable and is less likely to fail.

Ps. Don't get "raid edition" drives if you are not actually using them with a raid controller. Raid edition drives do not have built in error recovery (the raid controller takes care of that instead), regular drives do. If you use a raid edition drive like a regular drive there is no error recovery at all on the hdd, and data loss in case of failure is more likely.

So I bought a laptop for AU$150.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2r2r67d.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/mtv0if.jpg

Not too shabby eh? It has a Pentium M 1.5, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD, and some other stuff . . .

OOh, I need something like that, but with a bigger HDD... I have more than 40GB of music.

And I thought 10GiB was a lot.

LolCDs can be 600mb when you go lossless, and I have a few thousand tracks too. erm... approaching 5k

baumaxx1 wrote:LolCDs can be 600mb when you go lossless, and I have a few thousand tracks too. erm... approaching 5k

My peenus bigger than your peenus.

My collection is about 13k songs or 60 gbs.

Morty had over 100k songs.

My Acer's 160GB really isn't cutting it for me anymore, and I only keep about 2,500 songs @ 320kpbs.

Paper's stack up on ya, man.
That and, of course, all those programming programs I have... Including my own OEM version of Windows XP I used to use in PC builds for other people.

korge wrote:

baumaxx1 wrote:LolCDs can be 600mb when you go lossless, and I have a few thousand tracks too. erm... approaching 5k

My peenus bigger than your peenus.

My collection is about 13k songs or 60 gbs.

Morty had over 100k songs.

Good for you... have a cookie.

What's the difference between LolCDs and CD-Rs anyway?

Um... CD's are just CD's, like the music type disks that used to be used for games back in the stone age (lol.)

CD-R's are CD's that you are able to put your own data on from your home PC.

Now did I just have a retard moment, or did you really just ask the difference between CD's and CD-R's?

baumaxx1 wrote:

korge wrote:

baumaxx1 wrote:LolCDs can be 600mb when you go lossless, and I have a few thousand tracks too. erm... approaching 5k

My peenus bigger than your peenus.

My collection is about 13k songs or 60 gbs.

Morty had over 100k songs.

Good for you... have a cookie.

Have three.

peterfaj wrote:What's the difference between LolCDs and CD-Rs anyway?

There's a difference?

Oh, so LolCDs are more like CDs and not CD-Rs?

Sooooo just before I left my USB snapped in half (not on its own though....my friend's steel-cap boots took care of that...), so I got myself a 4GB USB, a SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition to be exact. Marked down from AU$99 to AU$33. Best deal I've ever gotten.

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laptops - Asus x83v:2.26 3mb chatch centrino2 dual core, 4g ram ddr2, windows vista 64bit, nvidia 9600gs 1g, 350hdd
900bucks
alienware mx15: 2.6 6mb catch intel dual, 4gram ddr2, windows vist 32bit, nvidia 8700gt 512, 250ghdd
2700-over priced alienware grr!(forsale) hehhehe

desktop- custom= p4. 4.4intel, 4g ram ddr2, 9800gt 512, 80g and 750g
500bucks(forsale) hehehee

Current hardware:

Server:
AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition @2.8GHz, 4GB, Total storage: 1.81TB (RAID-5, 5x500GB), Windows Server 2003 R2 x64
- roles: domain controller, file server NFS/DFS, FTP server

Old server:
2x Intel Xeon SL6VP @3.06GHz, 2GB, Total storage: 80GB (RAID-1, 2x80GB), Windows XP Pro SP3
- roles: number crunching, whenever I need something "heavy" done, and need a dedicated machine to do it.

Workstation:
AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition @2.8GHz, 4GB, Total storage: 822GB (RAID-0 System drive 2x36GB WD Raptor + 500GB + 250GB), 2x ASUS EAH4850 TOP, Windows Vista Business x64
- roles: everyday use, gaming

Laptop:
Toshiba Portegé M400-110 Tablet, Intel Core Duo T2400 @1.8GHz, 2GB, Total storage: 80GB, Windows XP Pro Tablet Edition SP3
- roles: for work on the road

I'm also looking to get a bluray capable mediacenter of some sort, hopefully sometime this spring. My current standalone mediaplayers aren't capable of HD playback so it is time to retire those.

I've just ordered another HD-4850. I get it on Monday