Help. Need a new Hard Drive

[Zhaoman]

Yeah that looks great, should chew through ur windows start up

[Koolpc]

Thanks guys for all your help and advice

[looney]

So the Seagate is a good one to go for then? This one:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache ST3320613AS

Yep thats the one you want, the one that ends with 13AS.

As for boot time, if i'm honest with you, i dont see any difference in boot time from my old rig or new rig, I actually created a 'rant' thread on another forum baout it. But most of it was my ignorance, cos I thought getting a sata 2 would mean superfast speeds, cos there advertised as 3.0 Gbit/s, when in fact they dont even run at those speeds, my runs on legacy ide mode, which is the fastest way, only benefit i have seen is in general use, like transferring files and opening programs etc, its fast, but cant really say the same for boot speed, as boot speed has other factors to it. But overall it's a good drive, quiet and fast for your usual stuff, the vista rating thing gave it a 5.7 score iirc when i tried out vista, having it on raid would really boost speeds.

heres a benchmark of it by someone else: http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...ml#post1405040

here my benchmark:

[Koolpc]

Still a fast drive to get though?

[looney]

Still a fast drive to get though?

check those benchmark i posted, its still a fastd rive.

[narz]

The description on ebuyer for the Seagate (ST3320613AS) strangely misleads by saying on the description:

Designed with up to four platters and the only second-generation perpendicular recording technology in the industry

[Koolpc]

I'm not good at reading benchmarks.

[looney]

The description on ebuyer for the Seagate (ST3320613AS) strangely misleads by saying on the description:

lol never noticed that, alot of the products are mislabelled, cos they just write the blurb of the manufacturer, i'm guessing that one is the blurb for the 7200.11 series as a whole.