I'm in the process of buying a harddrive and need to now which is best. I've hered that ATA 2 is supposep to be the best but cant really find any. Also i need the harddrive to be 400GB or more.
ty in advanced
james
2006-06-06 15:35:26 · 4 answers · asked by jamessweet60 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You mean SATA II hard drives. Well SATA II hard drives are the most common for home PCs and it is actually very common since it is one of the only types you can get for a home PC. The reason you are having trouble finding your hard drive is due to the size you want it to be. Most PCs carry only a 250 GB or 300 GB hard drive. Rarely could you buy a PC that carries anything larger. Therefore you would rarely find one for sale at that size. What you may want to do is buy two 250GB SATA II drives for a combination of 500GB. This may cost a bit more though unless you pre-order these 500 GB drives, you won't have much selection in normal electronic stores.
EDIT: When you are looking for hard drives, make sure you are looking for internal hard drives, and for desktop PCs.
2006-06-06 15:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by Leon Wu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Western Digital, Seagate, Fujitsu, all these are good brands of hard drives, but really the life of a hard drive depends on many different variables. Environment has a lot to do with it, a hard drive operating in a hot dusty area will not last as long. Also if a hard drive is operating in a Computer that doesn't have a lot of Memory (RAM) it will grind itself to death because of the creation of swap files being written and retrieved just to do simple tasks. Max the memory, and good luck on finding a 400 GB Drive that will work in your PC.
2006-06-06 15:57:19 · answer #2 · answered by bolinlamar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best I've heard of are Western Digital's Raptors. They spin at 10,000RPM compared to 7,200RPM for a normal hard drive. The faster the RPM's the quicker the hard drive can access files. The closest I could get you would be 300GB on two drives (150GB each) set in a RAID.You can get a pci adapter to put on additional 2 hard drives
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2006-06-06 16:59:01 · answer #3 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely it relies upon on the variety of the motherboard yet no the variety does not rely as long because of the fact the products artwork mutually and slot interior the appropriate slots like for a motherboard that helps ddr2 ram you will desire to have ddr2 ram you will discover this information on the asus web page. CPU does rely motherboards are oftentimes purely intel or AMD yet you additionally can discover that on the Asus web page. wish that helped
2016-12-13 14:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by lotta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋