Good 200Gb Hard Drive for Dell8200

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Steve Bird

Hi
I am looking for some recommendations as to a good 150-200GB internal HDD for my
home PC Dell 8200.
It has an 80way cable to 40pin IDC connector (1pin removed). Think this is
EIDE??? Not sure on this though.

At the moment I only have a Western Digital WD600BB 60Gb disk and want to
upgrade

Thanks in advance

Steve
 
Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500SB 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144176

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Carey Frisch
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Windows - Shell/User
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| Hi
| I am looking for some recommendations as to a good 150-200GB internal HDD for my
| home PC Dell 8200.
| It has an 80way cable to 40pin IDC connector (1pin removed). Think this is
| EIDE??? Not sure on this though.
|
| At the moment I only have a Western Digital WD600BB 60Gb disk and want to
| upgrade
|
| Thanks in advance
|
| Steve
 
Thanks Carey
I have seen mixed reviews on Western Digital disks, many saying to use Seagate
or Maxtor

Steve
 
Based on my personal experience, Western Digital builds
the finest hard drives and are silent. Maxtor and Seagate
drives tend to be quite noisy and not as reliable as W-D.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Thanks Carey
| I have seen mixed reviews on Western Digital disks, many saying to use Seagate
| or Maxtor
|
| Steve
 
Carey Frisch said:
Based on my personal experience, Western Digital builds
the finest hard drives and are silent. Maxtor and Seagate
drives tend to be quite noisy and not as reliable as W-D.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Thanks Carey
| I have seen mixed reviews on Western Digital disks, many saying to use
Seagate
| or Maxtor
|
| Steve
Click to expand...
I built a P3/450 system in 1999 which had a 9GB WD disk. I added a 40GB WD
disk sometime in 2001. When I retired this system in 2003, both disks were
going strong.
I replaced the P3/450 with a Dimension 4600 in the fall of 2003 because the
old system was so slow (especially after I installed SBC DSL).
The Dimension 4600 came with a 40GB WD disk. I added a 250GB WD disk
sometime in 2004 so that I could separate my data from the system. I found
that the old WD disk was a performance bottleneck because it only had a 2MB
buffer. I installed a 120GB WD disk to replace the old 40GB disk in the
spring of 2005; this device has a 9MB buffer and is far faster.

All of the replaced disks were working when I removed them, and they had
never given any trouble. I'll bet that I would have had the same results
with either of the other two makers. The days of unreliable disk makers are
past; those guys went broke.

Jim
 
Steve said:
Thanks Carey
I have seen mixed reviews on Western Digital disks, many saying to use Seagate
or Maxtor
Click to expand...

No problems with WD drives here. Have run into more issues with Maxtor
drives. YMMV.
 
Rock said:
No problems with WD drives here. Have run into more issues with Maxtor
drives. YMMV.
Click to expand...
I've rarely had problems with WD. Have had a few, but not many problems
with Seagate. I've had loads of trouble with Maxtor. (I haven't seen one
that I've used go past three years.) That's my experience. Some people
have had just the opposite.
 
Steve Bird said:
Hi
I am looking for some recommendations as to a good 150-200GB internal HDD
for my home PC Dell 8200.
It has an 80way cable to 40pin IDC connector (1pin removed). Think this is
EIDE??? Not sure on this though.

At the moment I only have a Western Digital WD600BB 60Gb disk and want to
upgrade

Thanks in advance

Steve
Click to expand...
Seagate! Best drives in the business. Definitely stay away from Western
Digital and Hitachi...both prone to early death and consistently
problematic.

Bobby
 
Every hard drive manufacturer has had bad batches of hard drives at one time
or another in the past.

People can only give you the benefit of their personal successes, not what
yours will be upon your choice of any given hard drive make and model.

The "missing pin", blanked connection is a typical ide 40 connector pin
connection for WD hard drives. 80 wires is a sign of reduced internal data
corruption from the internal PC RF environment, and reduced data residual
felt from adjacent ide wiring. This type of cable works with IDE and EIDE
hard drives, cdroms, cd burners, DVD players, and DVD burners. Many home PC
builders replace this cable when replacing the hard drive.

WD makes a 160GB and 200GB ATA/EIDE hard drive with either 2MB or 8MB
onboard cache @7200 rpm spin rate.
.............
Jonny
 
One will be more _prone_ to heat and power problems with a
propratory PC, if the BIOS will even accept the 48bit LBA.
 
Thanks Jonny
I haven't replaced the disk yet but have just replaced the cable with a round
screened 80way cable as have had some problems with the pc freezing and errors
showing problems with IDE1 etc. No problems since but it's still early to judge.

Thanks for the info on the disks,
Steve
 
Hi Yo.
I am looking for some recommendations as to a good 150-200GB internal HDD for my
home PC Dell 8200.
Click to expand...

8200 (Dimension...I think there's also another 8200 model. All the
following refers to the Dimension.) owner also. Great machine,
except that you have to buy Rambus memory.
It has an 80way cable to 40pin IDC connector (1pin removed). Think this is
EIDE??? Not sure on this though.
Click to expand...

Yes, that is EIDE. You can plug another drive into that, and put it
in the unused interal drive bay. Alas, the 8200 does not have a SATA
connection.
At the moment I only have a Western Digital WD600BB 60Gb disk and want to
upgrade
Click to expand...

Keep old disk, and add new one for data.
Thanks in advance

Steve
Click to expand...
Welc.
 
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