PSD99 Wants A New Harddrive

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hi

im looking to replace one of my harrdrives its a 320 western digital

the choice is either to get a new IDE drive and DIRECTLY replace the harrdrive
OR
get an external harrdrive and make a copy of the exsisting drive

so in short im looking to backup all my data.


I just came across this one:
its at the top

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Samsung_IDE.html

its 400gb for £105
and its my FAV company SAMSUNG! they do the quiet stuff!!


so what do u all think?


should i get a new internal harddrive and make my 320gb the backup
or
get an external one and make that my backup?

obviously each method has advantages/disadvantages over each!

ie if i went for an external ill need 400gb at least it could cost more than an ide 400gb

also with option one i feel that directly replacing the 320gb with 400 would give me more capacity in the long run, as right now i have approx 40gb left.


id like to know your thoughts thanks

psd99
 
DONT (and i say this through personal experience) get an external hard drive. They are just too dodgy, not very reliable and can blow up in your face :nod:

Im not saying it will happen to you, but stick with internal hard drives:thumb::D
 
Dodgy?

Blow up in ya face?

Why the hell woudl they do that m8?

I have one, so do plenty of my friends. Never ever have I heard about one doing that!
 
Well to be fair, i got it from a second hand shop... which i thourghly regret now. You also gotta be quite careful with the things I accidently dropped mine a few times and it messed up the drive.

As i said chances are it wont happen to psd99, if he were to buy it, i was just giving my opinion on them :D
 
Michael118 said:
Well to be fair, i got it from a second hand shop... which i thourghly regret now. You also gotta be quite careful with the things I accidently dropped mine a few times and it messed up the drive.
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Never buy a second hand hard drive! :rolleyes:
 
You got no SATA ports mate?

If you want to expand why not buy a SATA card to fit into a PCI slot?
 
TriplexDread said:
You got no SATA ports mate?

If you want to expand why not buy a SATA card to fit into a PCI slot?
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yes mate morning

I do have a pci card with a sata slot
ive used this before when I had a 160gb maxtor sata drives
speeds were good wasnt sure if this outperformed my ide drive.
ne ideas?

point being id rather get an ide so i can directly replace the 320gb
but yes i do have one sata port but its on pci i dont think its that good tho! :(
 
cheers

TriplexDread said:
Hiya m8 good morning


Ebuyer selling big SATA's

1. What configuration are your SATA ports?

2. Do you have SATA II?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/sear...0&intCatID=4&strOrderDir=descending&intPage=2


or

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productlister.aspx?GroupID=1048

3. No biiig Sammys tho mate sorry


4.someone please tell me how to do that HTTP: shortcut text thingy please?
Click to expand...

thanks for links, am specifically looking for a samsung u ever had one of them be4?
i really RECCOMEND THEM!
so quiet can get the best nights sleep ever!


1. I dont quite understand this question. Ill try guess the pci card has one sata, one ata, 2 usb2.0 2 firewire ports on it.


2. i dont have sata 2 thaths for sure its an old car
in this case i dont see the point in getting a sata 2 drive.

3. samsung is my heart at the moment,


4. ive always wanted to know how to do that too1!!
 
I dont recall having any sammys m8 although I have on numurous occasions people mention how reliable and quiet they are especially the Spinpoints.

I have mainly Seagates in mine and a couple of Maxtors I think. I do need another drive but unfortuantely I need other stuff first lol.

Dont you just hate prioritisation
 
yer it sucks sometimes
so what do u wanta get then?

must admit dont mind seagate
but really hate maxtor

most of my drives are samsung and seagate
although i have two WD's

I dont really like WD either!

its all abt the S and S drives........
 
cool cool

yer i got a tagan 480w
was quite expensive but mind u i was desp at the time!

two companies i would NOT SUGGEST

1. QTECH damn these people burnt my motherboard STAY AWAY
2. JEANTECH almost burned my components blew up on me 3 times in total

i chucked the jeantech in the bin because it was dangerous
and cheekily i sold the qtech on ebay!!!!
 
cool cool

yer i got a tagan 480w
was quite expensive but mind u i was desp at the time!

two companies i would NOT SUGGEST

1. QTECH damn these people burnt my motherboard STAY AWAY
2. JEANTECH almost burned my components blew up on me 3 times in total

i chucked the jeantech in the bin because it was dangerous
and cheekily i sold the qtech on ebay!!!!
 
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