HD nub - advice needed

Lonz

Lonz

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Hey, I'm currently running a bogstandard Hitachi IDE Hard Drive on my PC. I've read the stickies in here and appear to be very helpful and answered a lot of my questions about SATA-II and RAID etc.

I'm going to be upgrading my PC very soon, new processor, new graphics card, new case, new power supply, and perjhaps a new Hard drive setup. I've heard a lot of advantages with RAID setups over standard IDE. My PC is basically going to be used mainly for gaming and a bit of other stuff as well like MSN.

As for drive space, I was thinking of getting 2x160GB SATA-II drives. What I'm basically asking, what would you recommend to someone like me, with very little knowledge on the hard drive front for two reliable, fast hard drives to use. I'm willing to spend upto £100-120 on them, but if I can get it for less then that would be ideal.

Any advice would be great, thanks in advance,
Lonz :)
 
if you could affoerd it i might suggest getting a scsi set up (from a popular auction site). SCSI has very low average seek times, and while the drives are expensive first hand, said auctaion site has them very cheap. just make sure that if you are going fo SCSI that you stay with the same standard
 
SCSI's great from a speed point of view but I wouldn't recommend it unless you fully understand what you're getting into. There are far more potential pitfalls with SCSI than with SATA - different flavours of cable, drive, card, signalling speed etc. You've got to get them all right or you'll end up with an underperforming or incompatible setup.

Messiah Khan's got the right idea.
 
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