Hitachi, WD or Seagate? 250mb

I never knew Hitachi had a feature tool for acoustic properties? Well, that is something I dont think any other company has, and thats just assuming that I need to use that in the 1st place :)
 
Yeah, when I was switching the SATA-II feature of 300MB/s on (comes as 150MB/s default to prevent compatibility issues), I found it in there. You can set to loud or quiet....
 
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I think that with my ageing P3.2 (Socket 478) that I only have S-ATA connections available, certainly have with my PSU. Is there any way that I can get S-ATA II without having to replace the mobo?
 
danceMB said:
I think that with my ageing P3.2 (Socket 478) that I only have S-ATA connections available, certainly have with my PSU. Is there any way that I can get S-ATA II without having to replace the mobo?
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SATA-II controller card (PCI). Totally pointless though as you will be limited by the PCI bus unless you have a newer PCIe 478 board....

Have a quick gander at my sticky, you'll see it is pointless unless you are running a RAID to have so much bandwidth. The only feature you will likely miss out on is the 300mb/s transfer rate but seeing as drives only use about 60mb/s (7200rpm), then this is no different to 150mb/s. The only real miss might be NCQ if your controller doesn't support it. NCQ = native command queuing - an excellent feature for hdu heavy applications (like in servers) for reordering commands to save access time for data. i.e. it will determine the most efficient way of retrieving data from the disks (very basically).
 
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Oh right, no need for me to buy a controller card just for this HDD, I guess that I will just stick with the normal S-ATA mode of the drive. At least it will be faster than my current 120gb IDE drive :D
 
Having had a quick look around, the £75 for the Hitachi 250gb drive is the best around than anyone else can sell for, which is good as I prefer ordering from here, always got to me quick when I ordered before. With having a look at a PC review mag today, the Hitachi was rated best when it came to overall speeds etc, which basically confirms what everyone has been saying.

Also says that getting a new hard drive to put the OS on etc, is sometimes one of the best things you can do with a PC, especially when moving from IDE (which is what im currently using now)

I presume me only having SATA I wont cause any problems with the Hitachi?
 
danceMB said:
Having had a quick look around, the £75 for the Hitachi 250gb drive is the best around than anyone else can sell for

I presume me only having SATA I wont cause any problems with the Hitachi?
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Another etailer in bolton is selling them for £67.98 ;)

Yup, the Hitachi's are backward compatible with SATAI, and come at default SATAI speeds. You need the feature tool to bump them up to SATAII :)
 
Ive been using seagte 250gig for couple of days now and noticed its quite load when its in use and its about the same speed as my maxtor 200gig 7200rpm ide drive.
 
Thanks guys. I'm still unsure which to go for. I was leaning towards the Hitachi and it does seem to get most votes here. I've owned Quantum (remember them?) WD, Seagate, IBM (Hitachi) and Maxtor in the past. Of those, Quantum aren't made anymore and I won't buy another Maxtor. The WD was my fastest, Segate the quietest and the IBM the best all rounder.

Hmmm, decisions, decisions...
 
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