Which HD is faster?

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mrmcdawg

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So it's my 21st Birthday, and my mom said I could buy a HD. So ofcourse I'm gonna be nice and pick the cheapest, most bang for the buck HD, right?

So I was thinking SCSI or SATA......

I've been reading a little, and I'm not sure the pros/cons of each. Here were the two models I was looking at:

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,537,00.html
seagate's ST373307LC

and

http://store.westerndigital.com/product.asp?sku=2469119
74 GB WD Raptor® Enterprise Serial ATA, 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache

So I have two questions:
1. Which one is faster?
2. If I buy the Seagate, I will have to buy a SCSI card? Does SCSI imply you're doing Raid?

What are the requirements for each HD?

Here's my Mobo... Asus P4C800 Deluxe

Thanks
 
for SCSI you need a SCSI controller, normally this comes as a SCSI card. SCSI doesn't need to be in RAID. The SCSI drive is faster but the SATA one will be less expensive
 
Praetor said:
You also dont suffer from insert-cd-and-your-entire-machine-locks-up-as-the-IDE-interface-attempts-to-cope-with-it syndrom :D
Click to expand...

this is amazingly true. i had the insert-cd-and-you-entire-machine-locks-up-as-the-IDE-interface-attempts-to-cope-with-it-syndrome

and guess what? it never worked...*sighs*

so now i have the most crappy 10gb ide EVER that windows is installed on...lol
 
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