OFcGaming

I'm looking to buy a new hard drive but have no idea about them . Looking for something fast and quite . Any suggestions or tips on what to look out for?

Check this out. Its a Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA II drive. 7200RPM spin speed with a 32mb cache. Price is around the £45 mark for an OEM model.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =HD-142-SE

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Personally i'd go with the WD Caviar Green as you'll save some cash on powering it aswell as reduce heat/noise in your case.

If you want to bling your machine Slarty then go for a fast drive for your OS and apps. Something like this:

Raptor

I think there may be a smaller one out there (150gig?) but its still around the £150 mark. Nice!

For cost per gigabyte the Samsung F1 spinpoint drives are worth a good look.

1 TERRABYTE drive at £73.56 inc delivery! Fast too.

Get it here:- Ebuyer special

Depends what u want it for. If its for OS then I'm thinking about going solid state - pricey but very quick

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Qu ... nKey=11154
Quicker than HDD but slow for SSD

Try...

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Qu ... nKey=11154

OZ so should be faster - or buy 500Gb and wait for 6months for SSD prices to fall further - I'm gonna wait another 6months!

The sizes of these drives are getting a tad too large I think these days.

They take a while to format for starters.. lol

The above a super suggestions tho, so fill your boots. I prefer to keep my data "managable" on different drives incase they fail. Just bear that in mind.

what you want ti for slart?

like muddy said, if ya want it for OS and apps and want some speed performance increase the go for a raptor or VelociRapto as they are called now.

if ya want storage then no need for spending the extra money and go with any of those drives above.

for mcclanes issue of fault tollerance, like we were speaking about the other day you could go for a RAID solution and get 2 identical drives. but like i said, need to make sure ya mobo can supposrt it. what mobo do you have?

setting up raid is pretty simple. ill help ya if ya wanna go down that path. so you could go for HW's £45 500gb x 2. RAID 1 would mean you would still only get 500GB even with 2 drives but if one were to ever fail then you wouldnt loose any data. basically RAID 1 = Mirror

I have to say im a huge fan of Maxtor drives
Example: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141470

Use them in all servers etc.