New harddrive

Millsie

Millsie

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Hey, i am going to buy a new 320 gb hard drive would this be OK?? Western Digital Caviar 320GB SATA 7200rpm 8MB hard drive


Ive already got a 160gb hard drive and that works fine... What kind of file system should i use?? Like which setup would work the most effectively??
I play many games...

Thanks for reading this and any help will be appricatied
 
do you have a sata port? it looks like a hdma size. where as a ata is a rectangular and has a 2 by 15 or 16 wide. however it is very good.
 
Umm yeah I think I do, because I just looked on the HP's site and it said

Hard drive
160GB SATA
7200 rpm

So I must
 
What makes NTFS so good?
I think that my 160GB hard drive is in NTFS because when I right click property it and says "File System:NTFS"
 
brianmay27 said:
do you have a sata port? it looks like a hdma size. where as a ata is a rectangular and has a 2 by 15 or 16 wide. however it is very good.
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What the hell are you talking about?

Millsie said:
What makes NTFS so good?
I think that my 160GB hard drive is in NTFS because when I right click property it and says "File System:NTFS"
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NTFS is pretty much the only file system utilized today, unless for some reason you still need to run a version of windows older than 2000. It's the fastest, the most up to date, and allows for the biggest file sizes and hard drives.
 
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ok it will work, but ntfs is good because it can have bigger files, fat32, the bigest file is 4 GB. so it is the best so far. on the topic, does anyone know the bigest file ntfs can handle?
 
brianmay27 said:
does anyone know the bigest file ntfs can handle?
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2 Terabytes.

brianmay27 said:
sata vs ata. it is not easy to describe sata
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What is HDMA? And you mean it's hard to describe what SATA looks like? Not really... it's just 6 flat pins. And ATA is 40 pin... 2 rows of 20 not 15 or 16.

EDIT: I guess you mean HDMI, but that's not really a well known interface good for reference.
 
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Faa 2 terabytes thats small as **Cough**

So is it easy to put the file system as NTFS on my new Harddrive? If it doesn't have it?
 
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Millsie said:
Faa 2 terabytes thats small as **Cough**

So is it easy to put the file system as NTFS on my new Harddrive? If it doesn't have it?
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Your hard drive won't come with any file system... you'll have to format and partition it, and NTFS will be the default setting.
 
PohTayToez said:
NTFS is pretty much the only file system utilized today, unless for some reason you still need to run a version of windows older than 2000. It's the fastest, the most up to date, and allows for the biggest file sizes and hard drives.
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You're forgetting about Linux And Mac.
 
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