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| 132319 | 2003-03-31 06:38:00 | Serial ATA needs a PCI card if you doh have one of the few awesome mobo's. S-ATA is also pricey like $100 more than the ATA 100/133. They also do not perform that much better. Some perform less than normal ATA's. Refer to www.tomshardware.com |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 132320 | 2003-03-31 08:02:00 | >I thought there were issues with the early Seagate Barracuda IV's?? Every HDD that has failed on me has been a "early Seagate Barracuda", hey maybe i've just had a bad run. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 132321 | 2003-03-31 08:30:00 | > Serial ATA needs a PCI card if you doh have one of > the few awesome mobo's. > > S-ATA is also pricey like $100 more than the ATA > 100/133. They also do not perform that much better. > Some perform less than normal ATA's. > > Refer to www.tomshardware.com sorry, but i dont hold tom or any of his moron staff in high regard. |
whetu (237) | ||
| 132322 | 2003-03-31 08:41:00 | In the last year I have lost two 40 GB Maxtor 5400 HDD and one 40 GB Seagate IV 7200. I backup daily (business use) therefore its not a major issue. I use Ghost to reload a fully configured and updated image on any new drive. All PCs have a second HDD for backup, with periodic data backups to CD. Its a concern that drives these days seem less than reliable, but then they are very cheap. I don't think its confined to any one brand on the market today. My main PC now has both HDD on removable caddies for further flexibility (and to make future HDD failures easier to fix) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 132323 | 2003-03-31 11:05:00 | > > Serial ATA needs a PCI card if you doh have one of > > the few awesome mobo's. > > > > S-ATA is also pricey like $100 more than the ATA > > 100/133. They also do not perform that much > better. > > Some perform less than normal ATA's. > > > > Refer to www.tomshardware.com > > sorry, but i dont hold tom or any of his moron staff > in high regard. > Easy there, don't bust a blood vessel. |
BIFF (1) | ||
| 132324 | 2003-03-31 12:27:00 | I'm not biff, I'm just saying that I have no respect for Tomshardware whatsoever. I could just have easily gone on a long winded rant on why tom and his minions are fools but I chose not to, I simply expressed my opinion and left it at that. If you guys want to believe what tom and co tell you, fine, that's your choice and I respect that, just respect my decision to look elsewhere for far better content. | whetu (237) | ||
| 132325 | 2003-03-31 12:50:00 | Where whetu? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 132326 | 2003-03-31 13:21:00 | Well MY next drive will be ANOTHER Seagate. I have had experience with Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate. Maxtor drives seem slightly faster and give a two year warranty but I have only had problems with WD drives and Maxtor. Both manufacture in my opinion good hard drives and well within my tolerances for failure. I haven't had a Seagate drive fail [YET] and my first Seagate 1 Gig drive is still running. That drive is in another computer I built and not on the computer I currently use. That drive would be about seven years old now. Just me from real world experience. BTW... I use Toms' Hardware Guide to check various bits of Hardware before I go buy. I've always found that site to be a good source of information to start with but also check Forums like this one for others' opinions. Before I even buy a Motherboard I download the Manual from the manufacturer and see that it suits. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 132327 | 2003-03-31 23:48:00 | > Where whetu? > > Cheers > > Murray P well take hard drives for example, I'll go to StorageReview first. For cpu cooling, Dansdata and Frostytech. For audio, 3dss.com Other sites to look at are sharkyextreme, anandtech, amdmb, hardocp, overclockers, bit-tech, blargoc.co.uk, overclockers.com.au.... the list goes on, but each of those sites have, on top of their own archives, a news page which link to other articles/reviews, so you can get a lot of diversity of opinion, and you can also build a pattern of what to expect. Google is a valuable tool for locating older reviews/articles. For forums, I frequent OCNZ - forums.overclockers.co.nz (where I am a moderator) and OCAU - forums.overclockers.com.au (where I read but dont post much) Both have great communitys, with a lot of helpful people, and a lot of helpful information. and ALL of them are better than toms in one way or another. As far as this post is concerned, it's about getting as wide a diversity of opinion as possible, and you wont get that by looking at one site alone. |
whetu (237) | ||
| 132328 | 2003-04-01 00:23:00 | Storage Review shows the S-ATA Cuda V drive by Seagate does not perform as well as some ATA-100's like IBM and Western Digital. Same concl by Tomshardware. In NZL I need to buy a PCI S-ATA card and the S-ATA HDD cost least $100NZ more than the ATA-100. storagereview.com |
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