Considering a Caviar green...help please!

gonda · 23 Feb 2009 at 17:42

Hi all,

this may be a really stupid question, but I need some advice and have tried googling to no avail...

Basically I have a low-end core2duo machine running with an old IDE hdd at the mo, the time has come to upgrade...

Am looking at the 1tb caviar green, would this run on such a machine, or do you need 64bit or anything like that to handle such a hdd?

Cheers

bliss · 23 Feb 2009 at 17:46

it will be fine. However i'm not sure what type of performance you will get when running the OS on a green drive. I have one in my htpc, but it's only used as storage.

gonda · 23 Feb 2009 at 17:49

Has gotta be faster than my current old ide drive though surely?

ChrisLX200 · 23 Feb 2009 at 20:26

gonda said:
Has gotta be faster than my current old ide drive though surely?

Yes, it's not sold as a high performance HD but will do the job in that rig.

jellybeard999 · 23 Feb 2009 at 21:36

IMO don't use these huge drives for OS, partitioned or otherwise. It's a lot of data to potentially lose through corruption etc.

Get a 1tb for storage, and a 160/320 or similar for the OS

gonda · 24 Feb 2009 at 09:40

Yeah sounds a sensible approach, thanks for the help chaps