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Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a great Christmas!
I'm interested in upgrading my Hard Drive. At the moment, I have a Weestern Digital 80Gb 7200 drive. It's not bad, but I've found that it's getting filled up a little too quickly.
I have seen a Maxtor 250Gb SATA drive for only £180 on the net and since my new PC supports SATA, I thought I might go for one of them for my next drive.
Does anyone here use SATA drives? Are they any good? Did you have any problems installing them and finally, are they quiet?
Thanks
I'm interested in upgrading my Hard Drive. At the moment, I have a Weestern Digital 80Gb 7200 drive. It's not bad, but I've found that it's getting filled up a little too quickly.
I have seen a Maxtor 250Gb SATA drive for only £180 on the net and since my new PC supports SATA, I thought I might go for one of them for my next drive.
Does anyone here use SATA drives? Are they any good? Did you have any problems installing them and finally, are they quiet?
Thanks
Bah they're already on about SATA2...
Thanks guys. Since there isn't too much difference as yet, I think I'll stay put - maybe upgrade to a new non-SATA drive.
We'll see anyways. Thanks again.
We'll see anyways. Thanks again.
I would only bother getting a SATA drive if you really are one to notice the slight difference in speed. They are not advanced enough yet. My motherboard on two of my computers supports them but I choose not to waste my money at the current time.
Miserableman wrote:
> The SATA drives available at the moment are barely any faster than the
> current crop of PATA drives (the WD Raptor being the notable
> exception).
I would get a raptor but i can't justify the price for such a small amount of storage.
> The SATA drives available at the moment are barely any faster than the
> current crop of PATA drives (the WD Raptor being the notable
> exception).
I would get a raptor but i can't justify the price for such a small amount of storage.
I just installed 160 Gb Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 yesterday.
It seems quite quiet and the noise is not heard over my fans.
Problems installing it... well I had a wee bent bit on my case that I needed to straighten with a pair of pliers... you didn't mean like that did you?
Diamondmax Plus 9 has both normal Molex power plugs and the new SATA power plug. I just used a molex.
I was installing XP onto the drive just after a format in a new PC. Had to load drivers during the setup by hitting F6 and installing what XP thought was SCSI controller drivers. No matter, once drivers were loaded XP setup great.
Oh and I had to make sure my BIOS was set to check SATA when booting.
It seems quite quiet and the noise is not heard over my fans.
Problems installing it... well I had a wee bent bit on my case that I needed to straighten with a pair of pliers... you didn't mean like that did you?
Diamondmax Plus 9 has both normal Molex power plugs and the new SATA power plug. I just used a molex.
I was installing XP onto the drive just after a format in a new PC. Had to load drivers during the setup by hitting F6 and installing what XP thought was SCSI controller drivers. No matter, once drivers were loaded XP setup great.
Oh and I had to make sure my BIOS was set to check SATA when booting.
The SATA drives available at the moment are barely any faster than the current crop of PATA drives (the WD Raptor being the notable exception). You will pay a bit more money to future-proof your drive, although I can't see them removing PATA connectors from motherboards in the near future.
There not going to be any quieter as there just normal hard drives. SATA is basically a new smaller cable that gives burst rates of 150Mb/s instead of the maximum 133Mb/s from normal hard drives. They are a bit faster than normal hard drives, and as your probably going to upgrade you might as well get a SATA as you can support it. I have SATA on my motherboard but I have 2 120Gb Maxtor 8mb cache 133 drives, as SATA drives werent really available when I upgraded. I dont think you will notice too much difference between SATA and 133, but as your upgrading you might as well spend that bit extra and get the faster drive.
The only problems I no are to do with the SATA conversion of old IDE drives. Maxtor drives were really bad at supporting the SATA conversion. What I mean is that with the motherboard you might have got a SATA conversion box, which allows you to plug in old IDE drives and convert them to SATA. Maxtor drives kept failing on this, so I could have used a converter for mine, but didnt due to this. But of course these were IDE drives and not SATA. As your getting a proper SATA built one you wont need a converter and you shouldnt have any problems.
The only problems I no are to do with the SATA conversion of old IDE drives. Maxtor drives were really bad at supporting the SATA conversion. What I mean is that with the motherboard you might have got a SATA conversion box, which allows you to plug in old IDE drives and convert them to SATA. Maxtor drives kept failing on this, so I could have used a converter for mine, but didnt due to this. But of course these were IDE drives and not SATA. As your getting a proper SATA built one you wont need a converter and you shouldnt have any problems.
Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a great Christmas!
I'm interested in upgrading my Hard Drive. At the moment, I have a Weestern Digital 80Gb 7200 drive. It's not bad, but I've found that it's getting filled up a little too quickly.
I have seen a Maxtor 250Gb SATA drive for only £180 on the net and since my new PC supports SATA, I thought I might go for one of them for my next drive.
Does anyone here use SATA drives? Are they any good? Did you have any problems installing them and finally, are they quiet?
Thanks
I'm interested in upgrading my Hard Drive. At the moment, I have a Weestern Digital 80Gb 7200 drive. It's not bad, but I've found that it's getting filled up a little too quickly.
I have seen a Maxtor 250Gb SATA drive for only £180 on the net and since my new PC supports SATA, I thought I might go for one of them for my next drive.
Does anyone here use SATA drives? Are they any good? Did you have any problems installing them and finally, are they quiet?
Thanks