Hard drive/Mother

wiserommer · 22 Jun 2009 at 08:31

Hey,

I have £180 to spend on new HDDs and i'm looking for ones that are compatible with this motherboard(not a tech wiz).

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2841

I've been looking at various ones, from the basic 1TB 3.5inch to the SSD cards. I'm looking for ones that have faster access times for data etc

thanks

JonJ678 · 22 Jun 2009 at 08:51

Any sata drive will work. What do you want it for, and what's the rest of the system like?

Access time could be seek times or transfer rate, clarify please. Seek is how long to go from reading one piece of data to another, its around 14ms for hard drives, and 0.2 ms for ssd. Transfer rate is how fast it reads data off the drive or writes data to it once it's found it, and is what I suspect you mean by access times.

wiserommer · 22 Jun 2009 at 08:59

To be more specific its transfering times and accessing times i.e boot up time. Would a 64G SSD be ok, i dont usually play a lot of games on the pc, but i do install applications a lot.

miniyazz · 22 Jun 2009 at 13:30

If you want storage, go for a 1tb/1.5tb with 64gb samsung 1st gen ssd. If you just want OS + programs, go for Agility 60GB or Corsair S128 depending on how much space you think you'll need for them.