Hi guys,
I'm building a computer, this time for my dad and he's decided he wants a new HDD instead of using his old one because his old HDD is FAT32 and he fancies an upgrade to NTFS.
Anyway, I can choose graphics cards, I can choose RAM, I can choose the CPU, hell I can even figure out which motherboard is most suitable but I'm really not that sure about Hard-drives. They should, theoretically be the most simple component to choose but what's put me off from deciding this is the massive range of seemingly identical products!
Anyway, my dad's got an external HDD which is rather big and he keeps most of his personal files and whatnot on their for safekeeping so he doesn't need the main HDD to be too big, no bigger than 200GB really and he probably doesn't even need half that.
I was hoping I could have a few suggestions from my fellow, more experienced system builders. It wasn't so difficult when I was choosing my own computer components but now, this is my dad's money so I'd appreciate all the advice I can get.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Josh
EDIT:
P.S: I was looking at:
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB ATA-133 8MB Cache - £34 inc VAT
It seems good but is it NTFS?
I'm building a computer, this time for my dad and he's decided he wants a new HDD instead of using his old one because his old HDD is FAT32 and he fancies an upgrade to NTFS.
Anyway, I can choose graphics cards, I can choose RAM, I can choose the CPU, hell I can even figure out which motherboard is most suitable but I'm really not that sure about Hard-drives. They should, theoretically be the most simple component to choose but what's put me off from deciding this is the massive range of seemingly identical products!
Anyway, my dad's got an external HDD which is rather big and he keeps most of his personal files and whatnot on their for safekeeping so he doesn't need the main HDD to be too big, no bigger than 200GB really and he probably doesn't even need half that.
I was hoping I could have a few suggestions from my fellow, more experienced system builders. It wasn't so difficult when I was choosing my own computer components but now, this is my dad's money so I'd appreciate all the advice I can get.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Josh
EDIT:
P.S: I was looking at:
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB ATA-133 8MB Cache - £34 inc VAT
It seems good but is it NTFS?
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