Seagate 7200.10 16mb

pcknight · 7 Sep 2006 at 13:57

Are the Seagate 7200.10 16mb drives much faster in real terms than the ordinary 7200 8mb ones? Would i see a difference?

pcknight · 7 Sep 2006 at 15:19

Yea. Would like to get a faster Hard Drive. Is it better to get an 8m or a 16mb cache one?

Also, would i be better off getting SATA rather than IDE?

pcknight · 7 Sep 2006 at 16:04

Not sure what to do. Don't know wether or not to go SATA and 16mb or 8mb or stick with IDE?

pcknight · 7 Sep 2006 at 23:52

Thanks for the info.

pcknight · 8 Sep 2006 at 09:47

Nice one Malcolm. What about drive size? I use XP with SP2 so the large hard drive would be recognised ok? I am thinking of getting a 250g hard drive.

Also, are larger hard drives slower than say 160g hard drives?

pcknight · 8 Sep 2006 at 09:57

Did you find it very fast compared to older drives?

pcknight · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:04

Does windows load quicker? Is yours the SATA Version?

pcknight · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:08

No. Just asking thats all.

pcknight · 10 Sep 2006 at 11:55

Looking at the 250gb one myself. Want to make sure it will be fast and efficient before i buy. I have a Seagate 80g 7200rpm hard drive at the mo so the newer one should be noticeably faster?

pcknight · 12 Sep 2006 at 08:44

Do you think the Samsung drives are better? I read a review of a group of 250gb drives on the net and it said the Seagate one was noisy and slower than the Samsung model.

pcknight · 12 Sep 2006 at 10:30

Samsung 160gb 8mb SATA hard drive or a Seagate 7200.9 160gb 8mb SATA hard drive?

Which one guys? Which is better?

pcknight · 12 Sep 2006 at 15:12

Thing is 160g is the size i am after. I suppose i could think about a 200g Seagate 7200.10. Doesn't matter if it is 8mb or 16mb?