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what is the best drives to use for an A7N8X-DX?...want to pick up a pair and
just want some opinions
 
what is the best drives to use for an A7N8X-DX?...want to pick
up a pair and just want some opinions
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I'm rather partial to Maxtor and Western Digital drives
personally...especially the pair of WD 80GB drives me and my roommate
picked up at Circuit City for $90 each, which will ultimately be $60
each once we do the paperwork for the $30 rebates on them.
 
I've owned, over the past several years, 5 Western Digital HDDs from
2.1 to 80 gig. I've never had a problem with any of them and they're
all still going strong. Just my $0.02 worth.
 
dino said:
what is the best drives to use for an A7N8X-DX?...want to pick up a pair
and just want some opinions
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Best in terms of what?

I thought the Best Drive was the WD Raptor, 'cos it's the fastest around,
but it ain't big. I think they have a 3year warranty too.

Ben
 
dino said:
what is the best drives to use for an A7N8X-DX?...want to pick up a pair and
just want some opinions
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There was several recent threads about reliability problems with
Maxtor drives. Personally, I've had one start to go bad and Maxtor
replaced it. So, I've had one failure in 6 drives that I've bought
from them. I stopped using WD drives because there was a documented
incompatibility between the WD drive and the Abit motherboard (KT7A)
that I had before my ASUS board. Anyway, I just replaced my 80 GB
Maxtor with a 200 GB Maxtor and it seems to work just fine.

arnie
 
dino said:
what is the best drives to use for an A7N8X-DX?...want to pick up a pair and
just want some opinions
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ATM, I am using a Maxtor 120Gb (8Mb cache) SATA and a WD 120Gb (8Mb cache)
PATA drive on this mobo - both have 3 year warranties.
 
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