Hi, I need to replace my drives on my No. 2 system and so I am moving the drives from my No. 1 system as replacements.
This gives me the chance to buy 2 new drives. I try to be future proof if possible and so fancy a pair of the Hitachi SATA drives as all of my computers based on Abit NF7-S ver 2.0 motherboards run in raid 0.
My question is what is the real world difference between the following drives apart from capacity?
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
I am looking for fast and quiet drives, I don't like to hear them chattering away.
Additionally, I can find no mention in the manual for my motherboard (listed above) about maximum capacities of hard drives, anyone know if the NF7-S can run drives of any size or is there a limit?
Thanks for your thoughts, PeterT
This gives me the chance to buy 2 new drives. I try to be future proof if possible and so fancy a pair of the Hitachi SATA drives as all of my computers based on Abit NF7-S ver 2.0 motherboards run in raid 0.
My question is what is the real world difference between the following drives apart from capacity?
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
I am looking for fast and quiet drives, I don't like to hear them chattering away.
Additionally, I can find no mention in the manual for my motherboard (listed above) about maximum capacities of hard drives, anyone know if the NF7-S can run drives of any size or is there a limit?
Thanks for your thoughts, PeterT