Good drive for windows and gaming ?

Slinger · 4 Dec 2006 at 18:36

Hi guys,

Excellent forum here, I can see you all being a great help for me when I build my gaming rig next year, but anyway, i need a bit of help with hard drives

I would like a good fast drive, not a raptor, seem to be a waste of money, I dont really want to spend more than about 70, and I dont really need any bigger than 160GIG or so(dont mind a bigger one if its good), Could you maybe show me a link to a good HDD. I will be using the hard drive to have windows on and also the latest games.

Cheers all in advance

Slinger

Slinger · 4 Dec 2006 at 21:12

jidh007 said:
Blasphemey raptors aren't a waste of money

Ok, should have worded that a bit better. But thanks guys for your replys

Slinger · 4 Dec 2006 at 22:40

sprognak said:
That's what I thought till I spent £130 and did this:

2x 7200.10's with the jumpers off (SATA-II 3Gbps) in RAID-0

Could you explain this for me ? im a noob to benchmarks, I assume this means very good ?

I might consider doing this then, but have to learn the different raid setups too

Slinger · 5 Dec 2006 at 18:44

Bump the bumper

Slinger · 5 Dec 2006 at 21:36

Thanks for geting back

How often have you seen raid 0 Fail ?

I dont think this would be any different in terms of failure to a single hard drive, becasue the single drive could also fail and then you lose data, least here you are getting faster performance

Also, ive seen 320 gig 7200.10 and i think 250gig 7200.10 . are these the same specs and speeds etc, just a different capacity ?