After a 750gb internal hard drive cheap places?

[spirez]

As above, kelkoo reckons the cheapest is £130 but i'm sure i saw them for less when i was slightly innebriated the other night!

Anybody know which sort will be compatibile with my motherboard? I've got an Asus K8V-X according to the box but i'm not big on all this SATA business etc etc!

Cheers

 

[b3nje]

eeewww

what speed?

UDMA133, SATA (RAID)

 

[Final Maxim]

http://www.ciao.co.uk/ASUS_K8V_X__5784554

so its sata.

why 750gb? just curious.

you can pick up 500gb for under £60

 

[spirez]

lol, wha'ts eewww b3nje?! I don;t have a clue about speeds. Fast would be nice

FM i might get a 500 then. Was after a 750 initially so that i could back up my 320gb external plus have enough space to not have to upgrade for a while.

Wonder if i have enough space for two 500s?!

 

[Final Maxim]

ah just over £60 it was.

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/113428

might be able to get it cheaper from somewhere else

 

[BenWall]

ah just over £60 it was.

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/113428

might be able to get it cheaper from somewhere else

I have two of them

 

[spirez]

OK, here's a slightly different question.

How would i go about replacing the current 120gb drive with a 500gb drive?

That way i could have two.

Could i install one, then install the OS etc on it and run it from there, then replace the 120gb with another 500?

 

[Oggy997]

Id install the 500GB on along side the 120GB one (or £120GB) and use Accronis True Image to ghost (clone) the hard drive.

Then format the 120GB one and use it as storage.

 

[Final Maxim]

OK, here's a slightly different question.

How would i go about replacing the current 120gb drive with a 500gb drive?

That way i could have two.

Could i install one, then install the OS etc on it and run it from there, then replace the 120gb with another 500?

well ide just hook up this new harddrive as a slave (set the jumper on the back to slave).

use this 500gb as your storage drive, then when your ready for your second harddrive you could just swap any files you want over from your 120gb to your 500gb, plug in your new 500gb as your new master and do a fresh install of windows.

loads of ways of doing it, upto you really

 

[Oggy997]

OK, here's a slightly different question.

How would i go about replacing the current 120gb drive with a 500gb drive?

That way i could have two.

Could i install one, then install the OS etc on it and run it from there, then replace the 120gb with another 500?

well ide just hook up this new harddrive as a slave (set the jumper on the back to slave).

use this 500gb as your storage drive, then when your ready for your second harddrive you could just swap any files you want over from your 120gb to your 500gb, plug in your new 500gb as your new master and do a fresh install of windows.

loads of ways of doing it, upto you really

Good point, probably cleaner and smoother this way

 

[spirez]

Cheers dude, i'll go9 with the 500.

By the time i've filled it i'm sure the bigger ones will be a lot cheaper too.

 

[TimR26]

Keep the 120gb for the o/s, then have another drive for storage and programs. Then they can run without needing to go thru the o/s so your system will be alot faster.

 

[Mike_182]

Got 4 150Gb disks in Raid stripe here cost me around £80 for the lot and goes like the b****cks...

 

[spirez]

Are Seagate beter than Samsung?

I saw this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/130454

Know it's only a few quid cheaper but i'm a student now!

 

[Mike_182]

Personal preference is Seagate but the SpinPoint drives aren't bad. Only real big one to look out for is the IBM/Hitachi DeathStar

 

[spirez]

lol @ deathstar.

Some of the revies on that Seagate suggest it's quite noisy. Have you found that?

And what's a raid strip?

 

[Mike_182]

RAID Stripe is where RAID is configured for performance as opposed to redundancy. The big 3 are Mirror (exact duplicate of the data on both disks), Stripe (the data is 'striped' onto the disks increasing theoretical performance) and RAID 5 which is a bit of both - Data is striped on all drives apart from one parity drive (basic description - it is a little more complex!) and it requires at least 3 disks. This gives it performance advantage and the ability to rebuild itself should one of the drives fail.

I dunno about noise - I tend to use Seagate at an enterprise-level where noise isn't a concern when you've got 8 15,000rpm fans as well!!