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Hi,
My old IDE WD 80Gb disk is full.
My machine (and motherboard are quite old) but wanted to get a SATA-II disk as I'm planning on upgrading this year to a new dual core mobo/cpu.
I've got a SATA capable A7N8X-Deluxe Rev 2.0. It's only SATA-150 not SATA-300 but I know it's backwards compatible. I also know that the NCQ won't work on SATA-150 but it would be nice for when I upgraded.
Whats a good quiet 160-250Gb SATA-2 disk? I noticed a lot only get 8Mb cache. Do you see much difference between the 8 and 16 Mb cached drives?
I want it to be nice and quiet. I've had some hitachi and WD disks in the past that have been quite loud.
Do I have to do anything special to get it to work on Windows XP SP2? My motherboard BIOS should see all 250Gb shouldn't it??
My old IDE WD 80Gb disk is full.
My machine (and motherboard are quite old) but wanted to get a SATA-II disk as I'm planning on upgrading this year to a new dual core mobo/cpu.
I've got a SATA capable A7N8X-Deluxe Rev 2.0. It's only SATA-150 not SATA-300 but I know it's backwards compatible. I also know that the NCQ won't work on SATA-150 but it would be nice for when I upgraded.
Whats a good quiet 160-250Gb SATA-2 disk? I noticed a lot only get 8Mb cache. Do you see much difference between the 8 and 16 Mb cached drives?
I want it to be nice and quiet. I've had some hitachi and WD disks in the past that have been quite loud.
Do I have to do anything special to get it to work on Windows XP SP2? My motherboard BIOS should see all 250Gb shouldn't it??