Seetled on a new hard drive,opinions please.

Jimbo · 12 Apr 2007 at 11:46

The model I went for in the end is this...

320 Gb Western Digital WD3200AAKS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms

Did I do good? I got it for £56

EDIT:

I just thought is this drive SATA 2?

320 Gb Western Digital WD3200AAKS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms

Manufacturer code WD3200AAKS

Overview
These high capacity drives are designed to be used with todays newest connection - Serial ATA. Providing more bandwidth and advanced features such as NCQ, Staggered spin up and much more, these drives are ideal for todays systems which can have upto 8 SATA ports and support various RAID styles which are ideal for power users, people who want data security and much more. Please refer to the drives information for a full list of features. Remember the New SATA II Drives are backward compatible to SATA

WD WD3200AAKS 7200rpm next-generation SATA hard drive feature 320GB of storage with lightning-fast performance. Yes, these reliable drives are fast, but they still deliver technologically advanced acoustics and cool operation. Designed for high-performance computers, multimedia and gaming systems.

Whisper quiet
Cool operating temperature
Data Lifeguard
ShockGuard
>16mb cache

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=299

Its 300 MB/s so I take it its SATA 2 yes? :confused:

Jimbo · 12 Apr 2007 at 13:01

Great thanks, I bought it becuase I like WD and the AAKS drives are supposed to be very fast.

Jimbo · 12 Apr 2007 at 13:42

So the boy done well.

Good, this will replace my failing Maxtor 250 gig, the second same model to die on me, and a rma replacment jobby. Also hope to have a cooler system as the Maxtor really pushes out a lot of heat. The Caviar shall sit alongside my WD Raptor.

Jimbo · 13 Apr 2007 at 00:45

So why advertise SATA 2?

Jimbo · 13 Apr 2007 at 12:55

Got my drive.. do I need to set any jumpers for sata2/300mbs?

Jimbo · 13 Apr 2007 at 21:15

Shouldnt a raptor to a AAKS be faster than this? this was in Vista..

Jimbo · 13 Apr 2007 at 23:17

Cant really answer those questions apart from yes, there was AV running Nod 32. I'm pretty happy with the drive its very quiet indeed and pretty damn nippy too. I reccomend.