which hard drive ?

Question

hi ,
i am using 40gb internal hard disk ( western digital ) . but now i want to buy a new hard disk . i want to know which will be the best brand . ( Fujitsu , Hitachi , Samsung , Seagate , Toshiba , Western digital . )

i am interested in playing pc games and i want to save DVD movies in my pc .i am using windows xp , asus board , 2.8 processer , pentium 4 and 512 ram .
than how much gb i could use in my pc = 40gb , 80gb , 120gb, 160gb , 200gb , 250gb or more .

Answer 1

Before deciding which hard drive to purchase, you should check if your computer's bios can handle a larger hard drive. For example, you can install a 250 GB hard drive but your bios will say there is only 160 GB. You should check your owner's manual or contact customer service to find out what your bios can handle. The solution is either to update the bios or to create multiple partitions on the hard drive. I like products from Western Digital and Maxtor. They are very reliable and have great warranties should the unthinkable happen. If you are going to store DVD movies on your hard drive, it probably best to buy a 160+ GB hard drive. Try to find a hard drive run which runs at 7200 rpm with a 8 MB buffer. Most users won't need a faster drive (e.g. 10,000 rpm), which cost considerably more.

Answer 2

You will need a big hardrive for what you're planning. Make you sure get one that has at least a 7200 rpm and 8 Mb of cache. Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital are my first choices. Do not buy a Samsung drive. Consider Fujitsu or Toshiba only as a 2nd choice.

Answer 3

Your external hard drive should show as an icon on your screen. Simply drag and drop everything you want on that drive. If you want to clear space on your machine's hard drive then don't forget to delete whatever you move onto the Lacie once you have checked that it has transferred successfully. If you want to start putting stuff directly on the Lacie then just specify it as the destination whenever you save something. You have a massive amount of capacity as it stands and I am unsure why you want to move stuff onto the Lacie, unless it is for reasons of backup, which is obviously a good idea. It's a shame you are not on a Mac, as you would then have, on Leopard, the fabulous Time Machine facility which will mean never losing anything ever again. If you don't think you are much good at computers make your next one a Mac - they are simpler, smarter, and cooler than a PC, and much easier to use. Vista is where Mac was about ten years ago.

Answer 4

You can use as large of a hard drive as you want to buy. Any of the brands you listed will be fine. Most hard drives have a life expectancy of about 5 (give or take) years - that doesn't mean that they will stop working, but more bad sectors will start showing up. Seagate is a good one (and they now own Maxstor), but choose the best value / cheapest - of the ones you listed. I would stay away from off brand or generic ones. You should check to see what interface your motherboard supports - IDE / EIDE, SATA and/or PATA and then you can decide which one fits your needs. SATA / PATA are faster than IDE, but should you choose IDE because your motherboard doesn't support SATA / PATA, then I would opt for the 7200 RPM over the 5400 RPM hard drives. RPMs aren't the true deciding factor though, just look for avg seek times and transfer times and pick which one is the best - the RPMs just help increase the seek and access times. Hope this helps...

Answer 5

You can't go wrong with Western Digital and/or Seagate. As for the size, the larger the drive the more movies you will be able to store. I'd start with 250 or 320 because once you do a couple, you're going to want to do more.
Start with a 7200 RPM drive, if you can find 16Mb cache, choose that too. Good luck.

Answer 6

Well, if you are going to be playing games and saving off dvds, then I would recommend at least a 200 gb drive with at least 7200 rpm and an 8 mb cache. Check out newegg.com. They have hundreds of drives at prices that make the retails stores look like highway robbers.

Answer 7

Seagate 120gb, 160gb either r. the more gb though the more u can store and the less prob. u will have. the less gb u have a better chance of crashing ur pc. The more gb free the compt. will right faster, better, and so on.

Answer 8

Maxtor and Western Digital are the best brands in my book. I really recommend selecting at least a 7200-rpm drive at least 160GB in size.

Given your configuration, however, I would most definately recommend bumping your RAM up to at least 2 gigs; that will crank your performance far more than even a 14k-rpm drive.

Answer 9

better go in for a 120GB seagate hard disk. Partition it properly to get better performance. You are saying of games and movies, so be careful of virus as there have been many cases of virus coming along with games in pirated versions.

Answer 10

I run 2 seagate 500 gig hard drives in my home computer. I have never had a problem. You may want to upgrade your memory to 1 gig most computer's are designed to max out at 500 gig but with a little creativity you can by pass the mother board and up grade to running duel 500 gig hard drives. I use my computer for storing X-Box games on my hard drive and I currently have 300 games stored on it with plenty of space left.