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Which HDD?
Name: Richard22 Date: April 5, 2005 at 09:38:57 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
This might seem like a simple question but put some thought into it please. Someone asked me whether they should buy a Western Digital 80 GB ATA 100 or a Maxtor 80 GB ATA 133, the price of the WD is cheaper. The HDD is going to be used in a P3 866 with 256 megs of ram, would they notice any difference between the two HDD’s? I know the price difference isn't much but they would rather spend less money. Thank you
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: April 5, 2005 at 09:44:15 Pacific
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The difference, if any, would be negligible. The bandwidths for storage devices has increased dramatically, but the devices themselves have not kept pace. To put it simply a hard drive cannot saturate an ATA100 let alone an ATA133.
Michael J
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: April 5, 2005 at 09:48:20 Pacific
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The amount of cache on the HD is probably more important than the ATA thruput. Faster RPMs is also important.
I would say go for the Western digital as i think they run quieter & the data lifegaurd utility that comes with / or on site allows you to clone drive providing one drive is western digital. Maxor I find noisier clacky The retail pack/carton comes mounted in carton between two stands so very little chance of damage in trasit & comes with disk containing lifegaurd
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Response Number 5
Name: OtheHill Date: April 5, 2005 at 15:36:04 Pacific
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Also if everything else is equal, look for the longer warranty. Drives fail more often then they used to.
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Response Number 6
Name: Richard22 Date: April 5, 2005 at 20:42:56 Pacific
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Thanks for the help, I'll tell him to go with the WD hard drive. Also, Jam you were right, the motherboard runs at ATA 66.
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