EIDE Hard disc recommendation

[old.Mikey]

I've currently got a 6.4GB Quantum UDMA/33 HDD and well I need another one!

But anyway is there any particular HDD that you recommend. My rig is.

C300A @ 450 (soon to be P3 800)
256MB PC100 RAM
Creative GeForce DDR
SB Live
Abit BH-6 motherboard


Cheers


Mikey out!!

 

[bodhi]

You dont mention how much you are planning to spend, but nevertheless I recommend a model from the IBM Deskstar 75GXP range. I bought one over summer, and have been impressed with its speed, reliability and noise levels (when I first plugged it in I wasnt sure if it was actually working or not). Plus its apparently the most overclocker friendly hard disk out there.

 

[Testin da Cable]

personally I enjoy the fine 17 gig Quantums. They're quite quick, the 7200rpm ata66 versions, and more or less cheap cos they are getting "old" and "small" according to "sources".

that [duh] is bollocks of course. I have 3 of 'em and they work [and have worked] perfectly. atm my main workstation runs on two 30.3 gig Q's attached to an escalade raid controler in a luuuverly 60gig stripe set.

I wanted two 35 GB IBM glassplatters [as the bodster mentioned above], but they were a bit too expencive for me.

atm I dislike westeren digital [aaaiii flames ], but that's pure pickyness on my behalf as I have used them in the past.

Hope you can do something with this info m8

good luck

-tdc

 

[stu]

IBM 75GXP. Widely acknowledged as the best IDE drive money can buy. To be honest tho, you're not going to get the best out of any new hard disk until you buy a new mobo (or addon controller) with ATA66/100 support.

 

[old.Mikey]

Sorry, I'd prob say around the £120 mark




Mikey out!!

 

[old.TUG]

Yep, the IBM 75 GXP range is lé daddeh. You aint gonna better it at this moment in time. Pretty cheap too and very bus tolerant as Bodhi says. They can take a 41MHz PCI bus speed easily

I'm quite interested in getting a couple of 30 giggers and setting up a RAID 0 array, fuck - that'd 0wn I don't need the speed but who cares, sounds posh

http://www.dabs.com have pretty good prices on the IBM drives, take a look. You won't regret it if you get one

 

[old.Quorthon]

Overclockers.co.uk also does the IBM'ers for reasonable prices. I'd love to get 2 of the 45 giggers set up with a KT-7 RAID 0 ooooooooh might actually make the first round of a clan game in RA3 without having to force models


Q

 

[Testin da Cable]

TUG,

fyi it is luverly m8. I had a w2k server running with a promise fasttrack turning 4 17gig 7200rpm quantums. Very fine.
I now have an escalade controler for 2 drives, cos I wanted to go back to my beloved linux at home. I believe it's called the 6200 series. The escalade is a more specialized beast with a seperate ide controler for each drive. Also they scale up to [I think] 8 drives, very cool.
Check em out at http://www.3ware.com
I havn't been able to check out the adaptec sollution for ide raid yet but I hear their controller is pretty cool too.


-tdc

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by Stu-
IBM 75GXP. Widely acknowledged as the best IDE drive money can buy. To be honest tho, you're not going to get the best out of any new hard disk until you buy a new mobo (or addon controller) with ATA66/100 support.

First bit is true but the second about ATA66/100 isn't. Its a fact that the performance difference between all three standards is less than 4% from bottom to top, thats at most.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Yeah, the deskstar range are fucking l33t. I've had this drive over a year now (20.4 gig) and it's very fast, ultra reliable and seems to put up with a fuckload of abuse.

 

[bodhi]

Emb, you're wrong there I'm afraid. The 75GXP is the first hard drive to hit the market that actually NEEDS ATA-66 to get the best out of it.

 

[Embattle]

Hmmm maybe it does but still hardly noticeable difference I would imagine.

Any way its a great drive which hammers most others.