Harddrive question

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I have no problem with the new WD type hard drives, BUT I'm a Seagate user, for it's reliabilities, and they are pretty quick. You should be looking at HD's with 16mb buffer, which makes a little difference, but either way, that's a decent price of $40 dollars brand new. I would grab it if I was you because of the price vs. performance
 
Haven't used WD's SATA drives, but have used and am using their ATA100 drives. I've had zero issues over the last 5 years with WD drives.

I'm using a brand new 300GB WD drive (ATA100) for audio right now with the 8 meg cache, and it's performing just fine in use with Sonar.
 
The WD SATA's, depending on which one you get, are one of the best & fastest in the market. Like the 10K & 15K versions, are unbelievably FAST, but come with a high price tag on higher GB versions. The 76gb version (i think it's 76), has 10K rpm, but only comes with SATA150, but it's blazing fast, I can just picture running raid on it.
 
just got a 320gb 32mb cache 7200 sata WD drive (300mb/sec transfer rate). Silentpcreview said WD caviars and seagates barracuda are the queitest and best on the market.

EIDE has a 10mb cache limitation to its technology so it blows, not to mention that if you so much as touch the ide cable the damn filaments break and cause massive slowdowns in performance and system crashes. rpm's been maxed out, next step is cache, so you might as well go high.
 
bewildered said:
EIDE has a 10mb cache limitation to its technology so it blows, not to mention that if you so much as touch the ide cable the damn filaments break and cause massive slowdowns in performance and system crashes. rpm's been maxed out, next step is cache, so you might as well go high.
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Hmm. I'm using 8 meg cache WD drives and I'm happy with the performance. The new 300 GB drive I bought for audio is working great with Sonar. I guess this is a YMMV situation.
 
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