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What Hard drive do I add?

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My emachines(W3107)AMD Sempron 3100+ 1.8GHz
2GB of Patriot Signature Line ram PC3200 400MHz
100GB(7200rpm,2MB cache) hard drive
16 x multiformat DVD+RW drive
I want to add another hard drive my emachine had a spot for another drive in he front.What should I get?What brand?How many gb's?100GB?160GB?200GB?


Thanks for your help,Clint
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Post by Dragon_Cooler »

Depending on size i would go with the WD250 w/16mb cache if oyu need more space. if not i would look at a raptor drive.
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Thanks Dragon_Cooler
Hey I'am originally from Houston,Texas
Born and raised there
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Post by Dragon_Cooler »

i bet its a big temperature change from where are now huh???

Again as far a drive goes i swear by Western Digital. I will get nothing else. But with name brands its like the differance between Ford and Chevy.
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Trust me it gets just as hot up here as it does down there, the difference is that we also get all the cold :P

So now for drive.... listed in performance top higher, bottom lower

WD Raptor 150GB
WD Raptor 74GB
Hitachi 250GB and up
WD 250GB and up with 16mb
Maxtor 250 and up with 16mb
Seagate 200 and up (5 year warranty)

Make sure its at least a 7200RPM drive and you should be good with any of these choices.
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Okay,cool.Yeah,I only prefer 7200rpm
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Post by Yapa »

When I built my friends gaming rig last year, I decided to put 1 32GB Raptor 10,000RPM as the windows / swapfile drive. This way ur system runs very fast and swap file access is good.

Keep all ur games, programs, files etc on a sata 200+GB drive with at least 8mb cache.

This is what Ill do one day to my pc when budget allows.

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So by this I assume it is easy to have one drive with your OS on it and you just tell your games etc to install on a secondary drive?? Or do you have to have RAID for this to work? also can you do this with one IDE and one SATA drive??
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Merlin wrote:So by this I assume it is easy to have one drive with your OS on it and you just tell your games etc to install on a secondary drive?? Or do you have to have RAID for this to work? also can you do this with one IDE and one SATA drive??
When your installing a game, it defaults to "C:\Program Files\"
You can change it so it installs to "D:\Program Files\" instead.
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I recommand the Seagate 320 SATA II 16BM Buffer NCQ & Perpedicular recording drive. I have one an it's dead silent and very fast over 65MB/s at big file transfers
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