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| Thread ID: 97651 | 2009-02-23 01:41:00 | Recommend a 500-750Gb HDD? | davehold (13001) | Press F1 |
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| 750459 | 2009-02-23 01:41:00 | Hi team, I am about to do a minor upgrade to my 3 year old system by adding an additional 2Gig of RAM and also want to add a second 500-750Gb HDD. Can anyone recommend a good, speedy drive to buy based on a balance between cost/speed. The specs of my system are... HP Compaq DC 7600 Convertible Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.20ghz 512meg RAM XP Pro 2002 SP3 80Gb HDD WDC 800JD-60SLA0 22" Viewsonic LCD Cheers Dave. |
davehold (13001) | ||
| 750460 | 2009-02-23 01:55:00 | Western Digital | pctek (84) | ||
| 750461 | 2009-02-23 01:56:00 | Umm...other bits?? (Bet this Q is gonna make me look dumb) | davehold (13001) | ||
| 750462 | 2009-02-23 02:04:00 | LMAO... knew it would make me look dumb (Asked a Q about his signature cos I thought he was recommending a model etc) | davehold (13001) | ||
| 750463 | 2009-02-23 02:24:00 | I would personally take out the existing 512MB RAM and replace with a 2x1GB kit. Mixing brands and specs are usually just fine but I don't like the idea of it. HDD - anything by Western Digital or Seagate....nothing else. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 750464 | 2009-02-23 06:11:00 | Western Digital are cheaper, and Seagate have been having issues lately. Get your new RAM to replace your current stuff. Like qazwsxokmijn says, mixing them (most issues are caused by different timings) can lead to problems. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 750465 | 2009-02-23 08:17:00 | Western Digital Hey, aren't you the always-recommend-Seagate advisor I remember..? So what happened? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 750466 | 2009-02-23 08:26:00 | Prob seagates recent stuff up. But personally I reckon both WD and Seagate is OK They've both had firmware/HD issues before. Seagate tends to fail less, but with their recent stuff up all the seagate flag wavers have switched to WD. I still reckon Seagates better:p |
Blam (54) | ||
| 750467 | 2009-02-23 09:47:00 | Hey, aren't you the always-recommend-Seagate advisor I remember..? So what happened? This happened: www.theinquirer.net But at least it was a programming error, not a mechanical failure, and is easily preventable with a firmware upgrade (provided your drive hasn't died yet) For my next drive I think I'll go with Western Digital. Reasons being price and the fact that the last one I bought is surprisingly quiet Everyone has and always will have issues. Just some issues are worse than others (IBM Deskstar) Even SSD/Flash has issues, which is why for all their faults, I'll still be using hard drives as my preferred storage media. They've been around for 53 years which is longer than probably most of the people on this forum |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 750468 | 2009-02-23 20:39:00 | HDD - anything by Western Digital or Seagate....nothing else. Do you claim to have enough experience to rule out Hitachi & Samsung or can you only remember 2 brands? |
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