My MB only supports SATA 150 but the drives are more popular/cheaper in SATA 300. What I've seen on other forums is I can put a SATA 300 drive in my computer but the "Hot Plug" feature of the 300 will not work and I won't get the performance of the 300. That's fine with me.
I've had 2 maxtors fail in 2 years, although I had each for over 4 years.
Should I go with
Maxtor
WD
Hitachi
Seagate
Samsung

5/14/2006 10:04:31 AM

fuck sata

get you a nice scsi raid controller

and go with scsi

5/14/2006 11:08:20 AM

i've got 2 Seagate Barracuda SATA drives and i couldnt be happier. the performance is very nice and is perfect for me for gaming.

5/14/2006 11:25:54 AM

I've got a SATAII Barracuda 300 gig, it's a very nice drive. Seagate seems to have a very good reputation these days.

5/14/2006 11:36:16 AM

i've got two sata hitachi (ibm) deskstars, they're a huge improvement over the maxtor i had before

[Edited on May 14, 2006 at 12:45 PM. Reason : sata not scsi]

5/14/2006 12:45:30 PM

i run mostly seagate drives, but i'm also running a hitachi and have used them often in the past...either one of those brands are excellent IMO...i've never cared for maxtor or wd

5/14/2006 1:31:13 PM

Quote :

"get you a nice scsi raid controller and go with scsi"

I would but cost is an issue. I can't get a SCSI controller and 2 80 gig drives for less than $100. Plus, my system is a little out-dated with XP 1500+ and 512 MB of DDR 266 ram.

5/14/2006 3:25:46 PM

I'm thinking of getting a 160 GB seagate as well for a dell Dim. E510. Will I need to get a SATA control card as well?

5/17/2006 1:53:14 PM

ive got 2 samsung sataii 250gb drives in raid 1. pretty cheap on newegg when i got them. they have jumper settings to make them run at sata 150.

5/17/2006 2:22:29 PM

I bought the 80 GB seagate for $50. Should have been here today but oh well.

5/17/2006 6:17:07 PM

Running to WD 80 gig SATAI drives in Raid 0.

Stats on HD tach are:

Average Read of 92.0 mb/s
Burst 221.0 mb/s

5/17/2006 8:17:13 PM

Running two Hitachi 160 gig SATAII (on SATAI controller) drives in Raid 0.

Stats on HD tach are:

Average Read of 102.1 mb/s
Burst 246.0 mb/s

Just so you know I'm not making it up (also for the raptor thread)

Standard 80GB SATA 7200rpm: (my fastest hdd prior to RAID)


Western Digital 74GB SATA 10000rpm Raptor


RAID 0 (2x160GB hdd's):


[Edited on May 17, 2006 at 9:54 PM. Reason : .]

5/17/2006 9:51:01 PM

Using Seagate SATA 7200.8 250GB HD with NCQ. Works excellent and quietly.

I don't see why you wouldn't buy a Seagate these days based purely off warranty. (5 yrs)

5/18/2006 12:19:34 PM

^^ The raptors seem to be scoring really shittily except for random access. Really doesn't seem worth the cost.

[Edited on May 18, 2006 at 12:40 PM. Reason : ]

5/18/2006 12:37:36 PM

^^^ i want to try that program when i get home. i did raid 1 instead of 0 because i'm tired of drives failing and losing all my stuff, but i want to see how fast it is.

5/18/2006 1:06:47 PM

Can someone tell me the difference between SATA I and SATA II? thanks

5/18/2006 3:31:52 PM

the difference is in the bus speeds. SATA I runs at 150MB/s while SATA II runs at 300MB/s. SATA II is backwards compatible with SATA I as well.

5/18/2006 3:41:54 PM

^ Thanks

5/18/2006 3:53:03 PM

i chose RAID 0 because i have an external drive for my automated backups, otherwise i'd use RAID 1 for storage

also the Raptor has a 12% boost in average read speed, and trust me that random access time makes a difference in loading times (not necessarily transfer times), significantly more dare i say than my RAID drives (though my RAID drives can transfer faster, they cannot necessarily load faster)

oh and the raptor is warrantied for 5 years same as any seagate

for reference as well that first hard drive i referenced is a fairly new Maxtor 80GB w/ NCQ (6B080M0)

[Edited on May 18, 2006 at 5:36 PM. Reason : .]

5/18/2006 5:32:17 PM

i have a 1.21 jiggawatt server that has over 8 trillion macrobytes on it

5/18/2006 8:10:46 PM

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2205174&CatId=525


is this good


id like to get one that is external, quiet and under $100

5/18/2006 8:22:04 PM

looks fine

just read up on tigerdirect's rebate reputation

(i've had all mine filled but still)

[Edited on May 18, 2006 at 8:44 PM. Reason : .]

5/18/2006 8:44:10 PM

yeah i heard about that before



any other suggestions for a similar product/combo

5/18/2006 9:49:10 PM

http://www.slickdeals.net/#p7531

Outpost.com has Seagate 300GB Serial ATA hard drive for $99 shipped free. These come with 5 year warranty, 16mb cache and support Serial ATA 300. Thanks google222

They also have Seagate 400GB IDE/ATA retail kit hard drive for $130 with free shipping and no rebates.

5/19/2006 4:05:59 PM

My drive came yesterday. After I realized I was using the wrong jumper pins (1.5 hours) I got it up and running. Loaded Windows XP and grabbed my backups from about a year ago. Tried to load them and it said I needed to use dos. So I reboot with the backup DVD-1 in and it autoloads to a restore (nero). After it's finished it reboots and tries to load XP. But I'm guessing this is my old backup (old MB and old P-IDE HD) and it overwrote my entine drive. Windows wouldn't start so I did a repair install of XP with raid drivers disk. Got me into windows. Now I notice my 80 GB drive is listed as 40 GB with another 40 GB unallocated.

WTF, am I stuck, have to reformat and startover of can I grow my partition somehow? I tried to use the seagate disk utility and it said no partitions were growable.

Oh and I ordered a new HD board for my old dead HD, hoping I can recover some more.

5/19/2006 4:24:40 PM