hard drive question

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mikey4865

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im ganna be building a GAMING COMPUTER FROM SCRATCH AND I AM NOW LOOKING INTO WHAT HARDDRIVE TO BUY I STILL HAVENT PICKED OUT A MOBO YET LOL

so how do these look?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1271627&Tab=2&NoMapp=0

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1271630

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1487962

well how do they look? woudl they be good for a gameing computer with an AMD athlon 64 processor 4200+ and a geforce 7800 and a 680 watt psu
 
kof2000

kof2000

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Binary Coder

Binary Coder

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yes go for two western digital raptors and run them in RAID 0. And if you need more room get something like a 200gb Seagate Barracuda. The raptors will make your system run very smoothly.
 
Cromewell

Cromewell

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why is it that people think you need raptors and raid 0 to have a fast gaming computer? A 7200RPM drive is more than sufficient speed.
 
Binary Coder

Binary Coder

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yes it is but if this guy is wants the best then he will probaly want two raptors running in a raid aray. I find my 7200rpm barracuda more than enough.
 
kof2000

kof2000

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also like compress files like winrar win zip with bigger files ands file recovering with par/par2 is HELL faster i get +200mb/sec as to previous one drive. 400mb + 200
 
Praetor

Praetor

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why is it that people think you need raptors and raid 0 to have a fast gaming computer
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Because not all condom manufacturers have the same level of quality control and accidents do happen. ;)

yes but the transfer rate and the rpm of the drive also makes a difference
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Actually Cromewell is still right .... at roughly 5MB/s sustained xfer of an optical drive ... the HDD isnt an issue :)
 
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