Recommended hard drives?
 

I have to get my hard drive replaced, as I described in a recent thread, because its on its last legs and will only last a week or so. I've backed up all my stuff now so its time to start over...
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I only know a few manufacturers: Maxtor, Raid, Hitachi, Samsung....

the size will be around 100-160gigs depending on the cost of course.
It doesn't have to be top spec, just enough to do its job well and not cost a fortune

Could anyone recommend me some internal drives?

Both my drives are Western Digital and come highly recommended by me.

If youre computer supports SATA, here is a 160GB for $70 on the WD site, you'll probably find it cheaper at other sites but the WD site is a good start
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=137

How can I tell if my pc supports SATA, is that down to the motherboard or power supply specs??


my power supply is 400w
P4 - 3.00 ghz
Ati 850xt 256mb Radeon
2gigs DDRam
Asus P4S800-MX Motherboard
Aopen 52x Combo cd/dvd drive

Sata connection on the motherboard

[img]http://img.ezguide.co.kr/spec_img/boa/GA-81PE1000MK-SATA-Port-O.jpg[/img]

Sata power connector

[img]http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data/articles/2004/1192/tutorial-sata_power_conn.jpg[/img]


Looking at the asus site, that mobo doesn't support sata though

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?mode ... 2=12&l3=42

yeah it definately doesn't. Never seen that bright orange connector on it....

So I'm guessing I need an IDE drive then? or ATA, or SCSI? I'm pretty sure my current HD is an Maxtor IDE...

Found some here:
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Akuma mentioned Seagate are good..

Any ide drive will be fine.

Wicked, cheers for all your help dudes, I'm looking for Seagate Barracuda IDE drives now........installation should be quite straightforward I hope. Just unscrewing and taking out the old one, replacing with new..........things can't go wrong surely happy:



btw, I admit I've never partioned any of my hard drives before, I'm going to try that so I can keep all my programs and my windows files seperate. I'm sick of being a hard disk noob, time to experiment rock:

btw the SATA connectors can be black too. check under the device manager and see if it says or has anything about a SCSI / Raid Controllers. if not IDE is fine

Deffo not SATA on my board.


Just bought a 120gb Seagate Barracuda IDE drive, twas £37 delivered beer: