Hi everyone,
I live in New Zealand at the moment, but in a few months time am moving to the US to live with friends for a year. A side effect of that... it's a great excuse to build a whole new PC My current one is old (2ghz AMD, 80gb HDD etc). Anyways, the first part I've been looking at is the hard drive, and reading around here it seems these might be good choices...
74gb Western Digital Raptor WD740 SATA (10,000 RPM) - About US$175
300gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS SATA - About US$249
I'd use the Raptor, split in partitions for my Windows XP, Programs, Swap File and Scratch Disks. The Barracuda would be for everything else.
What do you think? I'm a bit worried about noise because my current PC was built for low noise, but I'm ready to sacrifice it some for speed. Also I just heard it's good to put those type of things on the Raptor, is that right?
Thanks so much for all your help!
I live in New Zealand at the moment, but in a few months time am moving to the US to live with friends for a year. A side effect of that... it's a great excuse to build a whole new PC My current one is old (2ghz AMD, 80gb HDD etc). Anyways, the first part I've been looking at is the hard drive, and reading around here it seems these might be good choices...
74gb Western Digital Raptor WD740 SATA (10,000 RPM) - About US$175
300gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS SATA - About US$249
I'd use the Raptor, split in partitions for my Windows XP, Programs, Swap File and Scratch Disks. The Barracuda would be for everything else.
What do you think? I'm a bit worried about noise because my current PC was built for low noise, but I'm ready to sacrifice it some for speed. Also I just heard it's good to put those type of things on the Raptor, is that right?
Thanks so much for all your help!