New hardrive question

whatalegend123 · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:20

Hello
Ive been reading some really good things about the samsung spinpoint f3 and im thikn about snapping one up,
I was just wondering whethere these hardrives come shipped with sata cables or if i have to buy one separately

cheers

Beerbaron · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:23

OEM: will just be the drive
Retail: probably a cable included

twitch · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:24

The one's I have bought have not had anything with them.. Just the drive

These were OEM as above

whatalegend123 · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:29

ok which cable do i need>?
will my mobo as below accept this ?
my current hard drive is sata 300

Beerbaron · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:37

you should have the power cables with the psu and your mobo should come with the other cables

manbearpig · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:38

Yes your motherboard will accept it. You will need a cable like this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-064-AK

shahpor · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:50

twitch said:
The one's I have bought have not had anything with them.. Just the drive

These were OEM as above

Thats not strictly true. My F3's came with Screws.

twitch · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:00

shahpor said:
Thats not strictly true. My F3's came with Screws.

Yep I missed the screws and the little silicon crystal pack

shahpor · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:11

Damn, forgot about the silicon.

Beerbaron · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:19

so no packaging

stulid · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:44

For the love of god do not get the Ecogreen one.

You want full fat!

whatalegend123 · 31 Mar 2010 at 10:21

anyone know a good partition size to use for os/storage
i currently have a 250gb drive and i have it split 50/200

will it really make a difference on performance from 100/900 or 200/800 for this drive

Ziggy4 · 31 Mar 2010 at 16:20

In theory the smaller you have the OS partition the faster it should be but in reality the differences are unlikely to be very noticible except perhaps in synthetic benchmarking. you also want to leave some overhead on the OS drive for expansion, defragging, etc. Some HDD benchmark tools (HD Tune, HD Tach) will allow you to monitor performance across the drive platter but I think you'll be good with the first 10% you suggested above i.e. 100 GB.

Yep I missed the screws and the little silicon crystal pack

Or silica (silicon dioxide) even. Apologies in advance for being picky.

whatalegend123 · 31 Mar 2010 at 19:28

Ziggy4 said:
Or silica (silicon dioxide) even. Apologies in advance for being picky.

alas no ziggy you will find it is anyhdrous sodium silicate

twitch · 31 Mar 2010 at 20:20

whatalegend123 said:
alas no ziggy you will find it is anyhdrous sodium silicate

lol

Ziggy4 · 31 Mar 2010 at 20:38

alas no ziggy you will find it is anyhdrous sodium silicate

Silica gel is commonly prepared using sodium silicate as the start material.

twitch · 31 Mar 2010 at 21:07

At the end of the day it's a little desiccant bag of small roundish things that are ment to absorb any moisture