which hard drive should i buy?

Question

my options are a 320GB SATA2 segate baracuda 7000.10 with 16MB of cache. it is 180$
or a250GB SATA2 segate baracuda 7000.10 with 8MB of cache and it costs 140$
or a 250Gb Seagate 7200.1 ES ST3250620NS SATA2 Hard Drive which has 16Mb of cashe but is designed for servers that go 24/7 and is really reliable but costs 175$.
All have a 5 year warenty and use perpendictular technology and are all very high qualitty but the 175$ is slightly higher quality. with my old HDD i managed to use up 130Gb in the first 6 months but i didn't run out of space for another 5 months. i'm only getting a new hdd as my old one died. i am just a kid with no formal income. also being a kid it is the holidays fo another few weeks (its summer down here) so the hdd will be used a lot so i don't want that will die from ovr use and it needs to be vista compatiable ( i think they all are)

its sata compatiable, everything is compatiable and i know what i am doing with installing the drive and ghosting the files accross

Answer 1

Get a life. Are you on the computer every waking moment? Go outside once in a while and enjoy life.

Answer 2

So your choices are:

1. 320GB SATA2 segate baracuda 7000.10 with 16MB of cache. it is 180$

2. 250GB SATA2 segate baracuda 7000.10 with 8MB of cache and it costs 140$

3. 250Gb Seagate 7200.1 ES ST3250620NS SATA2 Hard Drive which has 16Mb of cashe but is designed for servers that go 24/7 and is really reliable but costs 175$.

All have a 5 year warrenty

With the speed of SATA technology I don't think the drive (option 1) with the 16MB cache is really going to matter. If you were transferring data in large chunks such as 4.7GB or 10GB at a time or doing massive video editing than I would say go with it.

The server grade drive (option 3) is over kill. If a drive is going to fail it will fail.

I would go with option 2.

Vista should support the drive just fine.

Answer 3

I made a pc not too long ago but, the hdd are problems unless you know how to work them. Is your Motherboard sata ready? Do you know how to use the post to set up sata raid? Theres alot to it. Do you know how to hook it up? Master or Slave? make sure it is the right size 3.5mm i think. SATA was very difficult for me but if you can get the drivers for the hdd before installing and get your motherboard manual to look at how to install a SATA hdd then you should be set to go.And last but not least, i say go for the $175 more cache is better and its got 250gb which is my recommended amount, you can put so much on it.

Answer 4

depends on what you want to use it for. Are you a gamer who needs a ton of space and speed or are you setting up a server or what? Option 2 sounds good for general use, option 1 for gaming (or storing other huge files.. music, movies, etc), and, obviously, option 3 as a server.

PS Screw you Squeaky

Answer 5

I'd go for the 320 Gig version unless you really go at it 24 hours a day for several days at a time.

Answer 6

fork out the money go for the best $175.00 for a big seagate do it.