P2B 7200rpm hard drive?

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helen rando

I have a P2B with a slow, finicky hard drive. I would like to replace it
with a a new 7200rpm 80G drive. Does the p2b support this speed?
Thanks.
 
Hi;

Yes you can use a 7200 rpm HD on your
P2B.but you can't take advantage of the
ATA 100 transfer rate on that Board.

Arnold

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helen said:
I have a P2B with a slow, finicky hard drive. I would like to replace it
with a a new 7200rpm 80G drive. Does the p2b support this speed?
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And what exactly does the rotation frequency of a hard drive have to do
with the mo/bo...? Sure you can, and I'd recommend dropping in an
additional PCI UDMA100 controller for a new drive. This way, the
capacity limit will depend entirely on the controller or rather its BIOS
(the Promise Ultra100 TX2, for example, ships with an old BIOS that
supports hard drives of up to 128 GiB, but with the latest one and
current drivers from the Promise website it'll take larger ones too),
and you'll get rid of the UDMA33 bottleneck. As to the hard drive
itself, the current Samsungs aren't bad - quiet, not too warm, and
rather speedy as well. Seagates and HGSTs are quite good, too. What I'd
rather not buy ATM is Maxtor and WD drives.

Stephan
 
Ben said:
Why?
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Maxtor: Well, the DM+9 has a bit too high a failure rate for my taste,
and WD apparently isn't able to get the bearings quite right - even the
new FDB equipped models are supposedly still whining noticeably (less
than the BB models, but still more than with what the competition has to
offer).

Stephan
 
PS: The 74 gig WD Raptor is another matter entirely - but that isn't a
7200 rpm drive.

Stephan
 
=|[ Stephan Grossklass's ]|= said:
Ben said:
Why?
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Maxtor: Well, the DM+9 has a bit too high a failure rate for my taste,....
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Im very happy with my Diamondmax but dont like to hear of this failure
rate. Its only hearsay Ive found though. If anyone knows of hard~ish info
on the apperent phenomenon that would be useful.
For performance, quiteness, price and availablity Id recommend them, but
its true that the web reports of failures put some doubt in me.
 
My Maxtor 40g 7200 has been running strong and daily (almost 24/7) for
almost exactly four years along with my P2B!
Not sure how long it is supposed to last, so I try to keep a new replacement
handy since they seem to be so inexpensive lately.

later,
dave

Creeping Stone said:
=|[ Stephan Grossklass's ]|= said:
Ben said:
Stephan Grossklass wrote:
What I'd rather not buy ATM is Maxtor and WD drives.

Why?
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Maxtor: Well, the DM+9 has a bit too high a failure rate for my
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taste,....

Im very happy with my Diamondmax but dont like to hear of this failure
rate. Its only hearsay Ive found though. If anyone knows of hard~ish info
on the apperent phenomenon that would be useful.
For performance, quiteness, price and availablity Id recommend them, but
its true that the web reports of failures put some doubt in me.
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