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Samfazzer

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hey the names sam , i just made my account good 30 seconds ago

i have a build of
Amd Phenom X2 555
a Gigabyte Motherboard ( which name i cannot remember )
2x2 GB Corsair Ram
and a geforce gs 8600
but my hard drive failed . im currently borrowing a mates spare one that he has almost filled with wow videos . but it works so i not complaining .. but he wants it back now and i need a new hard drive .

i have only about £30 to spend on a new hard drive
but i want a good one with a fast rate ect .

is it possible to get a hard drive that good for that cheap ?
and is it possible to get any bigger ram strips for my computer . my motherboard will only support up to 8 gb

thanks for your help
Sam
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-101-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=

It is the fastest 7200RPM drive you can get right now. It it rivals the 10k RPM drives, which if you look, are going for 3-4x the price for half the capacity.

Yes you will be able to upgrade your memory, however we will need to know what motherboard and what memory you have (speed and timings at least), then an answer can be given.

You can find out using a program called CPUz, which can be downloaded from here

ftp://ftp.cpuid.com/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.57.1-setup-en.exe
 
I own the SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD322GJ/U hard drive. I have been using it for about two months and I love it. I get up to 147 megabyte per second read speeds and notice a definite improvement in Windows start up times.

I would highly recommend the hard drive.
 
+ 1 with Aasti's hard drive, and 2048Megabytes, what program do you use to test the read speeds on your HDD? I have HD Tune and get upto 142MB/s transfer (don't know whether read or write)
 
Aastii said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-101-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=

It is the fastest 7200RPM drive you can get right now. It it rivals the 10k RPM drives, which if you look, are going for 3-4x the price for half the capacity.

Yes you will be able to upgrade your memory, however we will need to know what motherboard and what memory you have (speed and timings at least), then an answer can be given.

You can find out using a program called CPUz, which can be downloaded from here

ftp://ftp.cpuid.com/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.57.1-setup-en.exe
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How can it do? Really with a 16mb cache? I don't think it's faster than a 10,000 rpm. Get us some proof.
 
Samfazzer said:
hey the names sam , i just made my account good 30 seconds ago

i have a build of
Amd Phenom X2 555
a Gigabyte Motherboard ( which name i cannot remember )
2x2 GB Corsair Ram
and a geforce gs 8600
but my hard drive failed . im currently borrowing a mates spare one that he has almost filled with wow videos . but it works so i not complaining .. but he wants it back now and i need a new hard drive .

i have only about £30 to spend on a new hard drive
but i want a good one with a fast rate ect .

is it possible to get a hard drive that good for that cheap ?
and is it possible to get any bigger ram strips for my computer . my motherboard will only support up to 8 gb

thanks for your help
Sam
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If you need to know that name of the board, you can restart and press the 'pause' key after it finishes counting the ram or you can go to Start -> Accessories -> System tools -> System information or Right click on My computer, then click Windows Experience Index, then click View and print details, it should say the motherboard under Model.
 
Person1234 said:
Get a Western Digital Blue 500 gig. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Caviar-Internal-WD5000AAKS/dp/B000Q82PIQ
Seagates and Samsungs aren't great.
Wouldn't get it from amazon, but it's the same price in most places.
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Person1234 said:
How can it do? Really with a 16mb cache? I don't think it's faster than a 10,000 rpm. Get us some proof.
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Firstly, you can use the mutli-quote button, it is just next to the "quote" button. Check all of the posts you want to reply to and then either click reply to thread, or click quote on the final post you want to reply to, and it will put all of the quotes in the same post, like this one.

Regarding the first quote - Samsung have some of the fastest and most reliable drives available. The F3 drives runs rings around the vast majority of other 7200RPM HDD's, WD included.

Seagate, again, have some great drives. Granted, some aren't as quick as your WD or Samsung drives, but their .12 drives are still very good pieces of hardware.

The only brands I would say stay away from are Hitatchi, though really only their DeathStars, and I'm not a big fan of Maxtor either, though the one system I had with one in never had a single problem, until the motherboard went, not the hard drive. I'm actually still using that very same drive, 7 (I think) years on, as storage in this system right now. It does run warm though, hotter than either of my 7200RPM drives in here right now (Samsung F3 500GB and WD Caviar Blue 320GB), and at 5400RPM, not surprisingly it is slower, but for storage is great.

The Raptor's have faster access times, which isn't surprising given their higher RPM, so for boot drives they would be better, however the F4's destroy them in read/write times, as they do with the Seagate momentus XT drives, which are hybrid HDD/SSD's. It isn't all about the cache and it isn't all about the RPM. For the proof you want:

HD Tune benchmarks:

Samsung F4: http://www.voodoo.dk/billedarkiv/samsung.spinpoint.test/spinpointf4_single_01.jpg

WD velociraptor:
http://www.desktopreview.com/shared/picture.asp?f=321

Passmark:

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html

you have to look for the product codes:

600GB WD Velociraptor: WD6000HLHX

320GB Samsung F4: HD322GJ

Just swap the 600 in the WD to 300 if you want the 300GB drive, or any other number for other capacities. You will see it consistantly is hgiher, even though it only has 16MB cache
 
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