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| Thread ID: 88315 | 2008-03-23 07:02:00 | HDD reccomendations? | a helpless random (13059) | Press F1 |
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| 651941 | 2008-03-23 07:02:00 | hi my pc specs are AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2.5GHZ) 2GB DDR2-800 512MB GDDR4 ATI Radeon HD2600XT Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H MoBo 80GB WDC (Temp) Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit as seen in signature. as u can see i need new HDD but not sure on what hdd to go for. im running vista with steam and 10 biggish steam games and BF2 and COD4. im not lookin at spending much $. If you have any reccomendations (size or type or specific HDD or whatever else) then they are all welcome, Thanks |
a helpless random (13059) | ||
| 651942 | 2008-03-23 07:07:00 | Seagates are fairly inexpensive and have a 5-year warranty. Ascent have 250GB (ascent.co.nz) HDs, SATA, 16MB cache for ~$105 each. My next rig will have 3 of them :) You can get up to 1TB ones from SG I think... If you can, buy a copy of XP and load that on there too. It is much faster than Vista and you can run it off a separate drive (your old 80gb one). It seems quite easy to set up a dual-boot between XP and Vista.apcmag.com Follow that (except don't worry about 'shrinking' the HD partition as you're installing it onto a different physical drive). and you should be sweet! A good use for that spare HD as well!! EDIT: For the dual-boot, follow instructions from "Now install Windows XP". :) |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 651943 | 2008-03-23 07:08:00 | I just got myself one of these: www.ascent.co.nz And am very happy with it. It is very quiet and fast :) |
LiquidSolidity (1589) | ||
| 651944 | 2008-03-23 07:23:00 | I would go for Seagate. I have two 200 Gb seagate drives and bought a one Terabyte drive yesterday. Do you have a SATA or IDE controller or both? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 651945 | 2008-03-23 07:37:00 | ok, so what size do you reckon? 250gb seems good, then i could set up dual boot, vista on 250gb and xp on 80gb. | a helpless random (13059) | ||
| 651946 | 2008-03-23 07:42:00 | ok, so what size do you reckon? 250gb seems good, then i could set up dual boot, vista on 250gb and xp on 80gb. How full is your 80 ATM? And how much data do you want to have on it (ie have you got stuff stored on external drives you want to put onto it)? |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 651947 | 2008-03-23 07:47:00 | ATM my 80gb has bout 10gb left but i hav held back on putting stuff on it and hav about 100gb of stuff from other pc and laptop thats on my external, i need to put that on. but there isnt much else that i need to install(maybe 10gb more) and im also looking at getting crysis(thats why i left about 10gb) | a helpless random (13059) | ||
| 651948 | 2008-03-23 07:50:00 | ATM my 80gb has bout 10gb left but i hav held back on putting stuff on it and hav about 100gb of stuff from other pc and laptop thats on my external, i need to put that on. but there isnt much else that i need to install(maybe 10gb more) That's ~180GB. A 250 should do fine. But on the other hand if you're going to want to get more storage then get a larger capacity. You may run into problems activating Vista on the new 250GB drive, because I think the license is tied to the hard drive, not the processor/mobo etc. Ringing MS should rectify that easily enough though. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 651949 | 2008-03-23 07:51:00 | Buy what ever size you want/need... Me, I am getting 2 1TB HDDs this week :D |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 651950 | 2008-03-23 07:53:00 | Where are you getting crysis from? I need it? :) | Alexhughes79 (6949) | ||
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