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Old 08-03-2005, 05:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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in a hard drive wat would b the most important to get, there r 16mb chaceh but none with 10,000 rpm and there r 10,000 rpm with only 74gb and 8mb cache,

i dont know if i should b looking at higher rpm or higher cache or higher gb

these r only 2 of the ones i was looking at tell me wat u think of them...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148068
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144423

and now i just found this one it llooks good but only 74gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144160

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i would go for the second one cause they are both 7200 and the second one has 16 mb cache and its a little cheaper
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note that yes the Western digital drive does seems better, with better cache, seek time, and price. It is however SATA, and the other is IDE. Are you sure your board is compatible with SATA
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