New hardrive question

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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
 
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
 
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. :)
 
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