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I'm looking for a new Hard Drive after my current HD space went down to an impressive 0.8Gb...
Looking at a couple of Hard Drives on eBuyer, I'm quite confused by the differences in prices. One is £30 for 40Gb, others are £45 for 80Gb, and I saw one for £50 with 200Gb.
How much of a differance does the RPM make?
How much of a differance does the Cache make?
And what's the difference between Serial ATA and IDE drives?
I'm looking to buy an internal one, and stick it in one of those case thingies, so its like an external one, isn't that the cheapeast/best way to do it?
I'm looking to spend about £50 on the HDD and the case-thingy for it, while hoping to get anything above 80Gb, if possible.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thenkew!
Looking at a couple of Hard Drives on eBuyer, I'm quite confused by the differences in prices. One is £30 for 40Gb, others are £45 for 80Gb, and I saw one for £50 with 200Gb.
How much of a differance does the RPM make?
How much of a differance does the Cache make?
And what's the difference between Serial ATA and IDE drives?
I'm looking to buy an internal one, and stick it in one of those case thingies, so its like an external one, isn't that the cheapeast/best way to do it?
I'm looking to spend about £50 on the HDD and the case-thingy for it, while hoping to get anything above 80Gb, if possible.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thenkew!
I don't know how RPM or cache space affect the price, but I assume that the higher those values, the more expensive the drive will be.
As for the difference between Serial ATA and IDE (aka Parallel ATA) is the way in which data is transferred from/to the hard drive. To the end-user, this makes no difference at all except that SATA is slightly faster, but not much.
As for the difference between Serial ATA and IDE (aka Parallel ATA) is the way in which data is transferred from/to the hard drive. To the end-user, this makes no difference at all except that SATA is slightly faster, but not much.
Right, even more confuzzled now...
One on eBuyer is 160Gb for £45. That's properly confused me. Why is it so cheap?
About to put in a large-arsed order with eBuyer, as soon as Iknow what HDD I want :)
One on eBuyer is 160Gb for £45. That's properly confused me. Why is it so cheap?
About to put in a large-arsed order with eBuyer, as soon as Iknow what HDD I want :)
I'm looking for a new Hard Drive after my current HD space went down to an impressive 0.8Gb...
Looking at a couple of Hard Drives on eBuyer, I'm quite confused by the differences in prices. One is £30 for 40Gb, others are £45 for 80Gb, and I saw one for £50 with 200Gb.
How much of a differance does the RPM make?
How much of a differance does the Cache make?
And what's the difference between Serial ATA and IDE drives?
I'm looking to buy an internal one, and stick it in one of those case thingies, so its like an external one, isn't that the cheapeast/best way to do it?
I'm looking to spend about £50 on the HDD and the case-thingy for it, while hoping to get anything above 80Gb, if possible.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thenkew!
Looking at a couple of Hard Drives on eBuyer, I'm quite confused by the differences in prices. One is £30 for 40Gb, others are £45 for 80Gb, and I saw one for £50 with 200Gb.
How much of a differance does the RPM make?
How much of a differance does the Cache make?
And what's the difference between Serial ATA and IDE drives?
I'm looking to buy an internal one, and stick it in one of those case thingies, so its like an external one, isn't that the cheapeast/best way to do it?
I'm looking to spend about £50 on the HDD and the case-thingy for it, while hoping to get anything above 80Gb, if possible.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thenkew!