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Which Hard drive ata/133 or SATA

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Name: srloren
Date: September 7, 2004 at 13:21:03 Pacific
OS: Windows XP SP1
CPU/Ram: Pent 4 2.2
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I am researching to buy 4 more hard drives. One for my OS WinXP, I'd like to find a single platter 20 Gig ATA/133. 9I realize it is going to be hard to find a 7200 rpm hd this small.) One Other single platter 20 gig for the Windows Swap file and two each 60 or 80 Gigs, one for Data and one for Backup of Data. Would you recommend going to SATA? I really don't like the 1 year warantees that HD makers are migrating to. One other option would be to eliminate the swap file and buy another gig of memory for a total of 2 Gigs. I am also considering adding a DVD R/W drive to the same channel as the CD R/W dirve. What you guys recommend? Thanks again for your help.
srloren



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Response Number 1
Name: ham30
Date: September 7, 2004 at 15:04:03 Pacific
Reply:

Why not get one large hard disk and partition it into 4 (or more) drives?


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Response Number 2
Name: RockyBalboa
Date: September 7, 2004 at 15:14:28 Pacific
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i recommend getting a pair of 36 gb raptors in raid0 and getting a 250gb drive for data and leaving your ram at 1gb unless you do video editing etc

Q-TEC 550 Watt PSU
MSI VIA KT4AV-L
2800+ Barton 512 DDR333
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb
Aero 7 Lite
80Gb Samsung ATA133 HDD
120Gb WD ATA100 HDD
LiteOn LDW-851S
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Response Number 3
Name: srloren
Date: September 7, 2004 at 15:35:09 Pacific
Reply:

The purpose for 4 drives is to keep the swap disk on a separate controller and drive. Also I would like to keep Backups on a separate drive in case I lose Drive 0, But maybe I should place XP on drive 0 and create partitions for data, programs and Misc.
I would like to use a faster mode ie UltraDMA6, I think it is. I have been reading that perhaps I should format all drives as NTFS. My current drive is NTFS only for the OS and Fat32 for the the other drive. I am acurrently using a partition for the swap file, but have read that it would be better if on a separate controller and disk. Do you concur with my goal here? Thanks much.


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Response Number 4
Name: googlybug
Date: September 8, 2004 at 15:03:18 Pacific
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you should get drives not one cause the drive might die on you after some time.

If you have 1 and it dies they you will be screwed,if you have 4 and 1 dies then its ok,cause you have 4.


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Response Number 5
Name: googlybug
Date: September 8, 2004 at 15:04:22 Pacific
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You should get 4 drives LOL.

damn typo


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Response Number 6
Name: kev100
Date: September 8, 2004 at 15:28:00 Pacific
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>You should get 4 drives LOL.

>damn typo


Oddly...the original does make sense...and might even be gramatically correct....although, you do have to look at it for a minute before it sinks in.

hee haw


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