[Discussion] Selecting a hard drive

[Bill Nicholls]

I don't know if your MB can handle SATA, but that would be my first 
choice. Otherwise, PATA will do the job, but a bit slower.

For my choice, I select Hitachi SATA because of their reliability, and 
the Hitachi test utility that is free. Also, their SATA drives have both 
the current power connection, and the new SATA connection, either one 
will work. This is really handy if your PS does not have any sata power 
plugs.

Last I checked, the sweet spot for SATA was at 320 GB for $75, just over 
23 cents a GB.

BillN

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> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:44:58 -0400
> From: bokeny at earthlink.net
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> I have an Asus A7V333 mother board in a full tower with 400w+ power
> supply.  This computer has two 9GB IBM SCSI and four Western Digital IDE
> or EIDE 30-40GB hard drives.  I would like to replaces them with two
> ~200GB hard drives.  (One for mirroring)   Besides the SCSI and IDE
> there are many prefixes to hard drive now that make no sense to me.  I
> don't think I can afford SCSI, so I need recommendation to the
> alternatives. I have 20-30 WD hard drives from 250MB to 20GB.  This came
> from replacing drive do to capacity at the place I used to work.  None
> was replaced due to failure.  (Luck of the Hungarians :-))  I am open
> for brand names if everyone hates WD.
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> Zoltan Bokeny 
> bokeny at earthlink dot net
> Fayetteville, North Carolina
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