hey all, new to these forums but after a few mins of browsing everyone here seems to know loads about computers.
anyways...
i've got a 160Gb Maxtor hard drive (i think its a DiamondMax 9) its about a year old or so anyways and i have several partitions on it like windows, programs, games, music etc....
i've now alsmost filled all of the partitions up and i'm looking to start a fresh start on a new hard drive. i was reading a magazine in WH smiths a few months back called custom PC as it had a hard drive reviews bitty.
they basically said that the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 was the best (but only if SATA2 mode was set, now my motherboard only supports SATA)
the next best hard drive was the Samsung Spinpoint P120S 250Gb which was best in SATA. this drive was also the quietest drive out of the lot they tested and was even quieter when writing than most where when idle. (that has a big appeal to me as my current harddrive rattles around like a tin full of nuts and bolts).
i am looking for a hard drive for about £70 (inc VAT) that was 250GB and was wondering if you guys think i should go for the samsung spinpoint or something else?
i know that the new raptor X is like the daddy but that doesn't offer enough storage space or an offordable price lol.
many thanks
*edit: sorry, forgot to add, i would also be using my current harddrive as like a back up or something. its not called a slave drive anymores as its not IDE and has no jumpers so dunno how it quite works but i'd like to copy my music over to the new hard drive and then format the whole drive (removing partitions and just having my home DVD/videos stored on it and stuff) is that possible?
anyways...
i've got a 160Gb Maxtor hard drive (i think its a DiamondMax 9) its about a year old or so anyways and i have several partitions on it like windows, programs, games, music etc....
i've now alsmost filled all of the partitions up and i'm looking to start a fresh start on a new hard drive. i was reading a magazine in WH smiths a few months back called custom PC as it had a hard drive reviews bitty.
they basically said that the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 was the best (but only if SATA2 mode was set, now my motherboard only supports SATA)
the next best hard drive was the Samsung Spinpoint P120S 250Gb which was best in SATA. this drive was also the quietest drive out of the lot they tested and was even quieter when writing than most where when idle. (that has a big appeal to me as my current harddrive rattles around like a tin full of nuts and bolts).
i am looking for a hard drive for about £70 (inc VAT) that was 250GB and was wondering if you guys think i should go for the samsung spinpoint or something else?
i know that the new raptor X is like the daddy but that doesn't offer enough storage space or an offordable price lol.
many thanks
*edit: sorry, forgot to add, i would also be using my current harddrive as like a back up or something. its not called a slave drive anymores as its not IDE and has no jumpers so dunno how it quite works but i'd like to copy my music over to the new hard drive and then format the whole drive (removing partitions and just having my home DVD/videos stored on it and stuff) is that possible?
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