Hard Drive Dillema

martyvice · 10-31-2006, 01:28 AM

I am not sure if I should buy a new harddrive for the system I am building, I am thinking about using the hard drive from my old system.

My harddrive in my current system is: 120GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA hard drive

If I do decide to get a new one what is the difference beetween these two?

http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...972&SID=139554

http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...166&SID=139554
And which one is better..... Or should I consider a different one?

The space on my current one (120 GB)is plenty for me, but would it increase performance in gaing at all?

Burgerbob · 10-31-2006, 01:32 AM

Unless you have SATA ports (doubtful, with a Socket A board) nothing will improve your gaming.

**The_Other_One** · 10-31-2006, 01:35 AM

I hard drive won't do anything more than make things load faster. Though things can get a little skippy if you run out of physical ram and you're using a good bit of your swap file. However, I doubt you'd notice much of a difference between most any speed hard drive.

Your old drive is fine for a new or old system. There's no reason to upgrade unless you need more space or something.

PC eye · 10-31-2006, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Other_One

I hard drive won't do anything more than make things load faster. Though things can get a little skippy if you run out of physical ram and you're using a good bit of your swap file. However, I doubt you'd notice much of a difference between most any speed hard drive.

Your old drive is fine for a new or old system. There's no reason to upgrade unless you need more space or something.

I presently run two 250gb ide drives compared an older build with a single 120gb ide there. The same games and apps only saw a performance gain when going to a newer cpu and increase from 1gb to 2gb of available ram. It's more of a combination of things that will actually begin to see this. You can throw in a WD Raptor 150gb SATA running at 10,000rpm and still not see any increase in performance if the rest of system is left unchanged. More ram, a faster cpu, and an updated video card. are all important things there.

kof2000 · 10-31-2006, 02:43 AM

u can always buy a sata/raid card if it doesnt have any sata ports.

PC eye · 10-31-2006, 08:23 AM

What make and model board are you buying for the new build? The specifications will tell you right off what SATA support it has. Just about all new boards out have SATA/RAID capability.

martyvice · 11-01-2006, 12:53 AM

I am buying this one:
http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...610&SID=139554

Is that good/will it work with my hard drive?

**The_Other_One** · 11-01-2006, 01:07 AM

It has one IDE channel. The only problem with this is that you can only have one other CD/DVD drive unless you use something SATA...

martyvice · 11-01-2006, 01:26 AM

I just want one CD/DVD Drive.... So this will work?

PC eye · 11-01-2006, 06:23 AM

You will lose the opportunity to later addon of a dvd rom or burner trying to run the 120gb as the primary. The model there is more of a SATA not ide type board. If you are determined to use the ide drive and still leave room look at a few other models. They still have 4 SATA drive capability along with support for RAID arrays.

10-31-2006, 01:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
martyvice Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Red Deer, AB, CA Posts: 191	Hard Drive Dillema I am not sure if I should buy a new harddrive for the system I am building, I am thinking about using the hard drive from my old system. My harddrive in my current system is: 120GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA hard drive If I do decide to get a new one what is the difference beetween these two? http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...972&SID=139554 http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...166&SID=139554 And which one is better..... Or should I consider a different one? The space on my current one (120 GB)is plenty for me, but would it increase performance in gaing at all? __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 2.08 GHz 1 GB Ram 120 GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA hard drive ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP 512MB

10-31-2006, 01:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Burgerbob Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Private Island Age: 18 Posts: 2,515	Unless you have SATA ports (doubtful, with a Socket A board) nothing will improve your gaming. __________________ MY Computer AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition, Zalman 9700 4096Mb Patriot Viper, ASUS M3N78 Pro 750GB Seagate HDD, eVGA GeForce 8800GT w/Akimbo Antec Three Hundred Logitech MX Revolution, UltraX Media Hanns-G 19in 5ms EEEPC 4G, 1GB RAM, 4GB SD card

10-31-2006, 01:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,368	I hard drive won't do anything more than make things load faster. Though things can get a little skippy if you run out of physical ram and you're using a good bit of your swap file. However, I doubt you'd notice much of a difference between most any speed hard drive. Your old drive is fine for a new or old system. There's no reason to upgrade unless you need more space or something. __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

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11-01-2006, 12:53 AM	#7 (permalink)
martyvice Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Red Deer, AB, CA Posts: 191	I am buying this one: http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...610&SID=139554 Is that good/will it work with my hard drive? __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 2.08 GHz 1 GB Ram 120 GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA hard drive ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP 512MB

10-31-2006, 08:23 AM	#6 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	What make and model board are you buying for the new build? The specifications will tell you right off what SATA support it has. Just about all new boards out have SATA/RAID capability.

11-01-2006, 01:07 AM	#8 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,368	It has one IDE channel. The only problem with this is that you can only have one other CD/DVD drive unless you use something SATA... __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

11-01-2006, 01:26 AM	#9 (permalink)
martyvice Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Red Deer, AB, CA Posts: 191	I just want one CD/DVD Drive.... So this will work? __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 2.08 GHz 1 GB Ram 120 GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA hard drive ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP 512MB

11-01-2006, 06:23 AM	#10 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	You will lose the opportunity to later addon of a dvd rom or burner trying to run the 120gb as the primary. The model there is more of a SATA not ide type board. If you are determined to use the ide drive and still leave room look at a few other models. They still have 4 SATA drive capability along with support for RAID arrays.

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