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Old 10-31-2006, 01:28 AM   #1 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 10-31-2006, 01:32 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Unless you have SATA ports (doubtful, with a Socket A board) nothing will improve your gaming.
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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.
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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.
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Old 10-31-2006, 02:43 AM   #5 (permalink)
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u can always buy a sata/raid card if it doesnt have any sata ports.
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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.
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I am buying this one:
http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...610&SID=139554

Is that good/will it work with my hard drive?
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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...
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I just want one CD/DVD Drive.... So this will work?
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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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