Which 300Gb SATA drive?

GSXRMovistar · 22 Apr 2006 at 12:49

Looking to order a new drive and my short list has the following four drives:-

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-070-WD) 320 0.27(£ per Gb) 3 86.89
Seagate Barracude 7200.9 NCQ 300GB ST3300622AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-066-SE) 300 0.28(£ per Gb) 5 83.37
Maxtor MaxLine III NCQ 300GB 7V300F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-096-MD) 300 0.30(£ per Gb) 5 90.42
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 300GB 6V300F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-089-MD) 300 0.25(£ per Gb) 3 76.32

Anyone got any recommendations which one I should opt for?

Thanks.

GSXRMovistar · 23 Apr 2006 at 11:54

Cheers guys will order one shortly.

GSXRMovistar · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:44

I went for the Western Digital in the end, purely for the fact that the Seagates were out of stock so made my decision easy.

GSXRMovistar · 26 Apr 2006 at 19:35

Well drive turn up today and I think it's knackered.

For the last week I've had an older Western Digital SATA drive (WD2500JD) to play with and all I had to do was hook it up to my Abit motherboard (AX8-3rd Eye) with sata power and data cables, instantly recogonised by the BIOS and XP.

But now when I connect the new drive (WD3200KS) instead of the old one it spins up but isn't seen by either the BIOS or XP.

Anyone got any ideas before I have to go through all the hassle of getting it replaced?

GSXRMovistar · 26 Apr 2006 at 21:33

smids said:
Make sure the 150MB/s jumper is set when connecting to a non-SATA-II interface.

You sir are a star!!

Thanks that sorted the problem, looks like my motherboard isn't SATAII then, does that effect the performance much?