Which Hard Drive?

[Rick1]

I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want a few opinions

I was going to order 2 x 500G
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148136 Together both o
these drives will cost $240.
I've also been thinking about going with 1 x 1TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148274 This one driv
will cost $330.
The 500GB drives are 7200rpm 16mb Cache and the 1TB drive is 7200rp
32mb Cache. Do you think the 32mb Cache is worth the extra $90. If I g
with the 2 x 500GB that would leave enough money to buy another 2GB RA
for a total of 4GB then I would load Windows Vista Ultimate 64bi
instead of 32bit. Or instead of the 2GB RAM I might buy another MS
nVidia Geforce 8600gts and try my hand at SLi. Both of these option
will most likely come later but I could afford one or the other now i
I go with the 2 x 500GB instead of the 1 x 1TB Hard Drive.
Which Drive(s) would you buy?
2 x 500GB 7200rpm 16mb Cache
1 x 1TG 7200rpm 32mb Cache
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[Gary Seven]

: I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want a few
: opinions.
<snip rest>

Sorry Rick1, this NG is dead and almost buried. When 10 or 15 days pass
without a single new post of substance, you can probably conclude that it's
DOA. Sorry, dude.

/G7

 

[krw]

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, (e-mail address removed)
says...

I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want a few opinions.

I was going to order 2 x 500GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148136 Together both of
these drives will cost $240.
I've also been thinking about going with 1 x 1TB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148274 This one drive
will cost $330.

If you think 1TB will be enough disk space for you for the
foreseeable future, go with the 2x500GB. Important information can
be kept on both, for "backup". If all the data is important, the
answer is self evident.

The 500GB drives are 7200rpm 16mb Cache and the 1TB drive is 7200rpm
32mb Cache. Do you think the 32mb Cache is worth the extra $90.

No. Caches size on a disk drive is a meaningless number. As long
as there is enough to function, more doesn't do anything.

If I go
with the 2 x 500GB that would leave enough money to buy another 2GB RAM
for a total of 4GB then I would load Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
instead of 32bit.

Or you could save the money, ditch Vista altogether, and take your
SO out to dinner.

Or instead of the 2GB RAM I might buy another MSI
nVidia Geforce 8600gts and try my hand at SLi. Both of these options
will most likely come later but I could afford one or the other now if
I go with the 2 x 500GB instead of the 1 x 1TB Hard Drive.
Which Drive(s) would you buy?
2 x 500GB 7200rpm 16mb Cache
1 x 1TG 7200rpm 32mb Cache

All things being equal, Seagate.

 

[chrisv]

: I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want a few
: opinions.
<snip rest>

Sorry Rick1, this NG is dead and almost buried. When 10 or 15 days pass
without a single new post of substance, you can probably conclude that it's
DOA. Sorry, dude.

Yeah, too bad... This used to be a really fun group. I guess the Web
forums have taken over...

 

[Gary Seven]

: Gary Seven wrote:
:
::: I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want a few
::: opinions.
:: <snip rest>
::
:: Sorry Rick1, this NG is dead and almost buried. When 10 or
:: 15 days pass without a single new post of substance, you can
:: probably conclude that it's DOA. Sorry, dude.
:
: Yeah, too bad... This used to be a really fun group. I guess
: the Web forums have taken over...

It's really just a god-damned shame. I've been following this NG since
about '97 (under a multitude of aliases) and it just kills me to see what's
become of it. Web forums?? Well f**k that!! :-(

/G7

 

[wm_walsh]

Hi!

I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want
a few opinions.

Anything other than a Maxtor drive is a good starting point.

Do you think the 32mb Cache is worth the extra $90.

Most likely not. Nearly all modern operating systems have their own
caching strategies that involve RAM, of which there is usually much
more than 32MB available. Furthermore, drive mechanisms are faster
than ever before.

If you use write caching (and most Windows 2000 or newer systems have
this enabled by default) and the drive can't write the contents of its
cache back to the disk, a 32MB cache could result in a bigger "hole"
being left in the file system and your data than a 16MB cache.

I would load Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit instead of 32bit.

Make sure you can find all the 64-bit drivers you need for the
hardware you have!

William