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| 589719 | 2007-09-10 01:28:00 | Hey, Like I said in the last post I am building my first computer and I don't have quiet everything that I need for it yet. So far, I have my Full Tower Ultra Aluminus case and my 19" lcd 2ms monitor with my AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz with my Asus crosshair motherboard. I've been reading quiet a bit of articles online and I heard that getting two hard drives would probably be the best for proformance (One of the Os system and the other for data). Since I will be using this computer for gaming I also heard that 10k rmps would be a must have for it. Give me some feedback please :]. Thanks. |
Fratricide (12800) | ||
| 589720 | 2007-09-10 02:26:00 | You will certainly pay a fair bit more for you 10k rpm hdds. I would advise you to, instead, get two 320GB Sata2 (3.0gb/s) 16mb buffer hdds, and put them in a RAID array. Cheaper, more storage, and faster...? (not sure, anyone else!?!) How much storage space are you wanting anyway? more/less 500GB? |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 589721 | 2007-09-10 04:05:00 | I personally have no use of any more than a 160GB HDD. I'm thinking of buying 2x 80GB SATA-2 NCQ HDDs, but only for $10 more I can get 2x 200GB SATA-2 HDDs and set them to RAID0. 10K RPM drives are really expensive considering their capacity. The price of a 36GB Raptor can get you a 400GB HDD. They are, however, very fast and even better when 2 are set to RAID0 configuration. DemonHunter's suggestion sounds good to me. SATA-2 3.0GB/s 16mb cache HDDs are pretty fast from what I've seen. Set two of them in RAID0 and you've got yourself a sweet gaming machine. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 589722 | 2007-09-10 04:06:00 | Add as many drives as you want. I have 7 HDD's in this current box and space for more. I have 2 Promise Cards that add extra support for 4 more SATA and 4 more ATA 133 drives over and above the motherboard. 7200RPM drives should suffice. $ per Gb storage vs performance the 10,000 are still overpriced. |
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