New hard drive help

[mascan42]

I'm adding a second hard drive to my computer, and I wanted to know if this one is any good . . . any tech guys want to help me out here?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1265028&Tab=0&NoMapp=0

[XMScott]

Seagate / 250GB / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-100 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive

Sounds great. Seagate make a great product, and thats a damn good price

Happy Pirating :p

[roche]

I would look for one that was ATA-133

[zagman76]

I think that's a pretty good HD. $79 for 250GB is a pretty good deal - is it just going to be for storage?

If your MoBo supports ATA-133, I'd go with one of those drives, but if it doesn't, then jump on this one!

[stevethrower]

Or if you have SATA (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-20,GGLG:en&oi=defmore&q=define:SATA) even more gooder....

[Smoke]

ATA-133 isn't an accepted standard, ATA technically stops at 100, and only Maxtor (last time I checked) supported 133. The drive you've selected is fine, the 8MB cache is good.

Is your current drive full?

[RandomNY]

250 GIG of POORRNNN11..... hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ppooorrrnnnn(in my best HOMER SIMPSON)

[Smoke]

250 GIG of POORRNNN11..... hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ppooorrrnnnn(in my best HOMER SIMPSON)
You mean it's all on one hard disk instead of a RAID and cross indexed onto DVDs? I don't know what I'd do if I lost my Kyla Cole collection.

[mascan42]

ATA-133 isn't an accepted standard, ATA technically stops at 100, and only Maxtor (last time I checked) supported 133. The drive you've selected is fine, the 8MB cache is good.

Is your current drive full?
Yeah, 2 years ago I thought I'd never use up 70GB, but now more than half of that is taken up by pron and O&A stuff. I figure I'll keep my applications on the 70GB C drive, and put my O&A, pron and games on the new, larger one.

[Smoke]

Or you could just clone the drive over so you don't have to shuffle anything around. That's how I backup my stuff, I buy a bigger drive and clone it, and put the older one in storage. 80GB doesn't go onto DVDs easily.

Fortunetly my work has 30+ unused Ghost CDs so we could hook ya up wit one.

[jpc165]

Go for the 400gb drive. Thats my next purchase.

[stevethrower]

Or get one of these...

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10610 (Got a 1 TB one)

Had to buy one for our file server... as the internal 1/2 terrabyte raid was getting full:(

Yada yada Firewire 800... running on a Windoze 2000 server I built... yada yada in hind sight should have put linux or unix... but I am a dumbass.