Samsung Hard Drives

[dachay2tnr]

I may be in the market for a new hard drive for my audio computer. The existing one is starting to make occasional clicking noises, and I could use something with more capacity anyway. This is the OS drive, not the audio drive.

What is the word on Samsung hard drives? I saw an 80GB Samsung Spinpoint at newegg for around $60.

Also, any particular reason I should go SATA over IDE? My mobo will take either (although there is a second IDE drive for audio already in the machine).

Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[thajeremy]

I think the SATA drives are more efficient...

 

[BigRay]

SATA drives are definitely faster, more efficient. I use SATA drives for OS , grafix, and program files. For storage i USE IDE drives.
differences:
Speed (150mbps (SATA) vs 100/133mbps (IDE)
2) Air flow (large IDE cable vs thin SATA)
3) Hot swappable (SATA)(You still have to reach in and pull the power and data connectors off and dismount the drive, it is just possible to plug them in and out without having to shut down the PC)

teddy

 

[dgatwood]

I may be in the market for a new hard drive for my audio computer. The existing one is starting to make occasional clicking noises, and I could use something with more capacity anyway. This is the OS drive, not the audio drive.

What is the word on Samsung hard drives? I saw an 80GB Samsung Spinpoint at newegg for around $60.

Also, any particular reason I should go SATA over IDE? My mobo will take either (although there is a second IDE drive for audio already in the machine).

SATA is basically a gimmick. They fixed a few of the fundamental flaws of ATA (specifically, the inability to route it outside the case). Beyond that, it has a higher maximum throughput than parallel ATA, but no drive on the planet comes anywhere close to hitting that limit except when transferring data from cache. With good prefetching algorithms, the practical benefit ranges from negligible to nonexistent, though the hard drive companies' marketing departments would love you to believe otherwise.

Here's how I decide whether to buy serial or parallel ATA.... Look at the price. Buy whichever is cheaper, assuming all other factors are equal. Otherwise, buy whichever one has the fastest RPM and lowest seek/settle times.

 

[shackrock]

my samsung drive just crapped out. sucks. it was a 160gig, with lots of shit on it. I was able to get it running one more time to take what i needed off of it. pissed me off though.