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| Raven |
Posted on 03-03-2008 12:55
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I need a new hard drive for my steam (cant install steam on same drive as windows p****** about) As my one currently cannot keep up with tf2 and freezes and dies x) so i need a quick, small size (5og  and cheap hard drive where can i get one gurus... Thanking yoos 
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| Bios |
Posted on 03-03-2008 13:00
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£25 and you can have a 36gb WD raptor  10,000rpm SATA drive, cant remember how old it is though, would have to look when im home  |
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| Tinger |
Posted on 03-03-2008 13:37
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Do you want PATA or SATA ? A few SATA's http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produc...tID=325630 150g raptor with bf2 for free http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produc...tID=158952 or a 120 GB Hitachi 0Y30013 Deskstar 7K160, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produc...tID=774473 For not much more an 500 GB Maxtor STM3500320AS DiamondMax 22, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ |
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| Clever Idiot |
Posted on 03-03-2008 14:09
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/product...y=priceAsc http://www.overclockers.co.uk/product...y=priceAsc http://www.ebuyer.com/search/?intStor...catUID=379 http://www.ebuyer.com/search/?intStor...atUID=1090 ide and sata , or local shop minus the deilvery charge often as cheap to help ya local shop + if owt goes wrong place to return it to. though bios is recycling old kit and a 10000rpm drive is always a nice idea just never afford one
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| Bios |
Posted on 03-03-2008 14:17
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Posts: 60 Joined: 28.02.08 |
strange i just posted and then everything disapeared and firefox fubared..anyway ill type it again: Ive got a load of 36gb SCSI drives though i doubt those would be much use to anyone im upgrading my hard drives soon (might even order some new ones now actually) my old ones wont be worth much so you can have an 80gb hitatchi 7k250 drive free if you like reita |
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| Clever Idiot |
Posted on 03-03-2008 14:26
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Posts: 538 Joined: 30.07.06 |
feels the free loving <3 |
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| Bios |
Posted on 03-03-2008 14:37
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Posts: 60 Joined: 28.02.08 |
this threads put me in a money spending mood, damnit >_<
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| Raven |
Posted on 03-03-2008 14:42
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Thank yoos i shall have a look into them (ur all clever men xD)
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| Cold |
Posted on 03-03-2008 16:48
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samsung spinpoints are benchmarked as generally being the fastest and quietest hard drives @ 7200 RPM EDIT: hmmm... had a look at some benchmarks, and it seems hitachi may indeed be faster, maybe i misinterpreted whatever article I read (could have been best performance/price ratio) Edited by Cold on 03-03-2008 19:48 |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 03-03-2008 17:43
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Quote cold wrote: samsung spinpoints are benchmarked as generally being the fastest and quietest hard drives @ 7200 RPM I really though WD & IBM-Hitachi had faster units last time I had a read at storage review will have to go have a read again..oh to be old & out of touch
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| Locke |
Posted on 04-03-2008 03:36
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Avoid Hitatchi at all costs. I've had two, both have failed. Western Digital = most reliable HD's around. |
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| FuZz |
Posted on 04-03-2008 08:15
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Quote Locke wrote: Avoid Hitatchi at all costs. I've had two, both have failed. Western Digital = most reliable HD's around. Seconded.  |
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| Flying |
Posted on 04-03-2008 16:26
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Quote Locke wrote: Avoid Hitatchi at all costs. I've had two, both have failed. Western Digital = most reliable HD's around. My laptop has a Hitachi drive in it. Never will I buy one of those! EVER! Mine has a constant high pitch tone unless I run a program to generate constant harddrive usage (which is what I run constantly). I have got Maxtor, WD and Samsung and am very satisfied of these three brands. Control yourself Take only what you need from him |
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| Don Pedro |
Posted on 04-03-2008 17:15
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just bought a samsung hd501ll thats the spinpoint t 500gb after reading loads of reviews. bloody quiet, fast, 3 year warranty(not as good as WD 5years) and v.low power consumption when idle. its one of the cheapest around as well.. |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 04-03-2008 17:29
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on the IBM front I do indeedy prefer the WD..out of six ibm have owned two have died.. had my first WD failure two weeks ago(1in6) & its the one thats has stung the most as it was part of a raid 0 array & i hadn't chance to copy the data over to my other array before it failed(its only 6 months old & hasn't even been near my overclocked rig ) Flying you do not that IBM drives have an accoustic mode which lowers performance very slightly but does make them a lot quieter..use the IBM feature tool on a bootable disk Bios do you eat drives for breakie..the SCSI you speak of are they from failed arrays where by the partner drive has failed & both drives have been pulled? edit: sorry for the wacky double posting in this thread i have edited the first post! Edited by sick-lizard on 04-03-2008 17:32 |
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| Tinger |
Posted on 04-03-2008 17:39
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Posts: 315 Joined: 13.08.07 |
:uhoh: I have never had a hard drive fail :uhoh: |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 04-03-2008 17:53
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The 2 drives I have had fail, really annoyed the hell out of me as they were in boxes that weren't trashed. In comparision the drives I would have expected to fail still run fine even though I have screwed the nuts out of em runnig the bus etc well out of spec..grrr |
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| Bios |
Posted on 04-03-2008 18:41
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Posts: 60 Joined: 28.02.08 |
i have 4 SCSI discs, 2 80gb discs, 1 36gb raptor thats my spares pile in my PC i have 2x 160gb WD RE2s + 1 300gb storage drive its all the joys of being an IT Tech, you accumulate alot of stuff you dont really need....it just sounds good i keep meaning to buy a PCI-Express SCSI Raid card so i can use these scsi drives but whenever i think about it i buy something else instead :x |
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| Cold |
Posted on 04-03-2008 19:42
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Posts: 774 Joined: 28.08.06 |
hey Bios, think you can get me some free kit? |
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| Bios |
Posted on 04-03-2008 19:56
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Posts: 60 Joined: 28.02.08 |
trust me the only stuff i can get free is quite low end/budget type stuff apart from the occasional bit like SCSI drives out of old servers that arent going to be used, got some 24port dlink switches but there just regular cheapo ones
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