5 drives: WD,Maxtor,Seagate Tested - Page 3

RichBa5tard · 16th April 2003, 13:48

Quote:

Originally posted by jmke
I have 2x 120gb-2mb versions of the DiamondMax Plus 9, they are used for storage and fast as hell

only consider the 8mb cache if you tend to use it as a system drive or to install games onto it.

if you want a place to store home made movies or music, then the 8mb cache version wont be worth the extra money.

true

even 5400 rpm drives are good enough if only used for storage.

Main aspects you should consider for drives used as storage is price/gb, noise & reliability.

Bosw8er · 16th April 2003, 13:53

Hombres,

1) if you have an old 20 GB and an old 13 GB disk
2) if you buy a brand new 80 GB disk which is a lot faster than your old hd's

.. on which HD are you going to install the OS ?

Go with the 8MB version or buy a second hand drive for storage purposes.

jmke · 16th April 2003, 14:02

let's just hope he makes his system parition smaller then 6gb otherwise making a ghost-image can become quite.. impossible

16th April 2003, 13:53	#22
Bosw8er [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,711	Hombres, 1) if you have an old 20 GB and an old 13 GB disk 2) if you buy a brand new 80 GB disk which is a lot faster than your old hd's .. on which HD are you going to install the OS ? Go with the 8MB version or buy a second hand drive for storage purposes. __________________ "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

16th April 2003, 14:02	#23
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 78,416	let's just hope he makes his system parition smaller then 6gb otherwise making a ghost-image can become quite.. impossible __________________

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