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Thread ID: 61251 2005-08-30 02:08:00 Upgrading your hard drive ironman (6770) Press F1
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1357207 2005-08-30 14:30:00 Whatever you buy make sure it has seagate on it, there is probally nothing wrong with the other brands but from my experience seagate drives are quiter and have a 5 year gurantee Rob99 (151)
1357208 2005-08-30 19:38:00 Good morning
I am also in the process of upgrading the HDD and wonder about the choice I have. This is my motherboard:
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (18 x 133)
Motherboard Name Albatron PX865P (Pro) / PX865PE (Pro) / PX865PEL-800 / PX865PE Lite (Pro)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale i865PE
System Memory 1536 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (03/01/04)
Till now I was mainly looking at Westrn Digital?
Is it really so that Seagate are quieter? My machine is loud enough allready!
Any suggestions(I thought of getting a 200GB drive)

Gion
notechyet (4479)
1357209 2005-08-30 19:44:00 I have just got my new machine with the samsung drive (Samsung 160GB IDE UDMA/100 8MB 7200rpm) on the other page. Its so quiet that you can barely hear it over the fan - which is called "super quiet" in the instructions. I am more than impressed.

The machine just snaps alive when you turn it on. Although the Athalon 64 3500 gig chip probably helps :)
netchicken (4843)
1357210 2005-08-30 19:56:00 Thats funny, coz I was given (as a present) an 80GB "super quiet" Samsung (yes it was brand new, not second hand), that makes more noise than my 3 year old Seagate.

The Samsung now sits waiting for a use (probably as part of a file server, or for backups) while I got a new 'quieter' Seagate 80GB.

I would definately go for the Seagate
Myth (110)
1357211 2005-08-31 00:05:00 Hey thenks everyone for your help. By pure co-incidence a mate of mine told me yesterday that his 200G drive needed to be re-formatted so he could re-load windows. We put it in my pc and it recognised it first time, no sweat!
The drive is a, you guessed it, Seagate 7200 8Mb. Works perfectly. Now I know what I am going to buy! :)
ironman (6770)
1357212 2005-08-31 01:16:00 www.etccomputers.co.nz
$158 incl gst
bartsdadhomer (80)
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