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Geek Culture / Hard Drive Question

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code spinneker
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Posted: 25th Dec 2006 21:14
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Hi there long time no activity but hey its christmas and I'm programming. Anyways I just wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions for a second hard drive. On my home computer I have an 80gb Seagate hard drive
Seagate
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9MS 3.5LP BARRACUDA
And Its filling up fast. With all the new software I bought myself for Christmas I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a good second hard drive thats relatively inexpensive, as in less then 100$. I just want something to put more stuff on. Something that I can install anything new on now that my hard drive is pretty much full.
Thanks for any help guys.

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 25th Dec 2006 22:50
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I like Western Digital
Others will say Maxtor, yet others will say add another seagate.
It's up to personal preference, and system specs, and your budget.
Have a look on pricewatch.com or the like to get a price idea.



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code spinneker
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Posted: 26th Dec 2006 03:59
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kk thanks cattle, by the way sorry for the weird structure of my posts but I only had about 5 hours if that of sleep last night and I'm a bit of a train wreck but I want to know for tommorow. Oh and one more thing.. If I get a second hard drive and install it can I make it so that the second drive can run installed programs and do everything my primary does? sorry if this is a stupid question but I haven't installed a new hardrive in about 10 years and the last upgrade was from 2gb to another 2gb and I think that the technology has changed a lot since then.

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 26th Dec 2006 11:49
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I only like to use Western Digital also. Forget about calling it a secondary drive... make your new one the master and the 80gig the slave. You can easily get a 200gig for 70 bucks.

Yes. When you install stuff you can make it go to any drive you want.
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Grandma
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Posted: 26th Dec 2006 13:29
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Yeah, i'm a Western digital person myself, stopped bying seagates after one of them failed me after just 1,5 years.

Comp : 1024mb Ram, 3.0ghz, GeforceFX 5800, 1,1TB storage
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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Dec 2006 03:35
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I'd go with WD or Seagate, I use both.

320GB WD - $90
250GB WD - $70
500GB samsung - $150 (speed ok for storage, not so much as a main drive) Maxtor has 500gb for same price also.

Seagates are typically only a few dollars more than their WD counterparts.

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Raven
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Posted: 29th Dec 2006 08:50
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I'd say it depends mostly on what you want it to do.

Western Digitial (WD) and Hitachi (IBM) are built for business applications, like servers or client terminals. Machines that have very high useage. Basically built to last, but you won't see them winning any performance reviews as due to this reliability and stability they sacrifice performance.

Seagate (especially thier new line) is build for home and mobile users. This is because they're designed for fairly heavy useage, but with features to cut-down on the drive spin times, and the new series has a cache that dumps immediate operations to it allowing for much faster hibernation and wake-up times.

Maxtor and Fujitsu are cheap, and good for light users. No real performance, no real reliability.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 30th Dec 2006 09:14
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Which would you say creates less heat and less noise?

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Pricey
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i got a 250GB western digital for £70 last year, and its lovely and quiet. =)

:: 3Ghz Pentium 4 / Hyper Threading, 1024mb RAM, 250GB HDD, 256mb Radeon 9600XT Graphics ::


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CattleRustler
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Posted: 30th Dec 2006 15:02
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yeah WD's a pretty darn quiet.
I have two 7200 rpm sata wd's in my case and they are whisper quiet



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Phaelax
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Posted: 1st Jan 2007 22:08
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anyone know what the noise level is like on a Raptor?

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1tg46
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I just recieved a 320GB Hammer hard drive that seems to better and more well equiped than my western digital 120GB Hard Drive. A few features that I like with this brand (or at least this hard drive):

1) Quiet
2) You can switch the power on or off on the back of the drive
3) You can switch the built in fan on or off on the back of the drive
4) One button backup
5) Firewire and USB (To bad I don't have firewire )

Even though I got this as a christmas present I still believe it is around $100-$150.

Regards,
Thomas

My CodeProject username: Thomas Stockwell
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