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| Thread ID: 50996 | 2004-11-08 10:41:00 | 2Mb or 8Mb hd buffer? | heni72847 (1166) | Press F1 |
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| 289449 | 2004-11-08 11:35:00 | If it was me I would get the 8mb cache drive. I actually have three 8mb cache drives in my machine. One WD 36Gb Raptor and two 7200rpm hard drives totalling 316 Gb in total. I could go into some technical details about why 8mb is better and faster but I'm tired. So see if you can find something at a review site such as Anandtech. Oh you might notice 8mb cache drives are the 'premium' drives and have a longer warranty e.g 3 and 5 years compared to 1 for 2mb cache models. |
alphazulusixeightniner (185) | ||
| 289450 | 2004-11-08 11:39:00 | I expect near 100% returns on all the drives i have sold with 5 year warrenties,my guess is they will start trickiling back in within a year,and snowball at about 3 years....hopefully after that people will have forgotten where they purchased them from... | metla (154) | ||
| 289451 | 2004-11-08 11:46:00 | > I expect near 100% returns on all the drives i have > sold with 5 year warrenties,my guess is they will > start trickiling back in within a year,and snowball > at about 3 years....hopefully after that people will > have forgotten where they purchased them from... > Metla, I havent read the fine print on my seagate partner docks, yet. Is the "5 year" warranty "Transferable"? and if not, is this part of the marketing game? D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 289452 | 2004-11-08 16:04:00 | > Yep,But in the grand scheme of things very few people > have a raid configuration . > That true metla? I thought having it in raid 0 was common, or a something to speed your harddrive up to 40% faster or something . If that is true, then wouldn't heaps of people be getting it? Or does it not really make much of a difference? |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 289453 | 2004-11-08 18:52:00 | >>Yep,But in the grand scheme of things very few people >>have a raid configuration. >> >That true metla? yes. only geks run raid 0. office servers tend to run 0+1 or 1 or 5. most home pc users wouldn't know what raid was if they tripped over it ;-). don't forget most pc's are of the workstation supermarket type (ie onboard graphics etc). also one of the problems with raid 0 is if one drive fails you lose all data. as far as 8meg drive or not, i would see what drive is the fastest first. storagereveiw.com is a good site. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 289454 | 2004-11-08 19:03:00 | the 8mb buffer hdds usually have a 3 yr warranty while the 2mb ones have 1 yr warranty. should be worth spending the extra $10 just for that. | viper (6375) | ||
| 289455 | 2004-11-08 19:10:00 | >the 8mb buffer hdds usually have a 3 yr warranty while the 2mb ones have 1 yr warranty. should be worth spending the extra $10 just for that. Thanks, I must remember that |
45South (4769) | ||
| 289456 | 2004-11-08 19:59:00 | i looked at the specs mentioned at the shop and went to the hd's official website and tired to find the drive . . . ended up being this: Seagate Barracuda 7200 . 7 Plus ( . seagate . com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,580,00 . html" target="_blank">www . seagate . com) just like you guys said it has a Three-year warranty which the same drive with normal buffer didn't even if performance doesn't increase that much . . . the warranty should be worth i i guess . . . thanx for all your helpful replies |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 289457 | 2004-11-08 20:30:00 | It depends on manys things such as the motherboard you have, spin speed of the drives, head speeds, etc. Given everything being equal however the 8MB buffer drive will outdo the 2MB buffer drive any day of the week in any configuration. Yep and I do have those combinations so it has been tested that the 2MB buffer drive is slower especially when the data starts to get mixed around the drive. Of course you can DeFrag but $10 for 6MB extra is nothing. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 289458 | 2004-11-08 20:31:00 | Seagate's web page for that drive seems out of date. Their support pages advertise a 5 year warranty on all 7200.7 effective July 2004. Ascent have 5 yr on all Seagate. You would think that they'd know as in NZ it is the retailer's job to chase the warranty. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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