If i am going to upgarde my pc i will upgrade my hard drive first.. I dont understand what sata and raid are so i will stick with ATA can u tell me a good make want a 160GB Thanks guys

Well SATA and RAID will be much faster than a standard ATA connection, but if you still want ATA i can understand.

I like Western Digital, have been using them for eyars. Seagate is also a brand i trust, they seem to be the pioneers in the hard drive world.

Other people are also Maxtor fans. But jsut so you know, you will get responses from people stating, "i had a [insert brand name here] for 2 days and it fried on me. WORST BRAND EVER DON'T BUY!" this is to be expected. Just stick with name brands and dont be intimidated by other peoples horror stories.

I was told Western Digital makes terrible drives that fail in less than a year. I have owned many WD drives, and not a single one has died on me. I've been using this 80GB one for well over a year and its in tip top shape

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I have a Serial ATA (SATA) drive which is a Maxtor 9 160gb and is very good. Bought it for about £70's if i remeber correctly a few months back and cant fault it. If your motherboard supports SATA then go for this, as faster and the newest interface at the moment (as far as im aware) so best to try and keep with the technology! ;D

Hi everyone i got a copy of Pcwizard someone told me it was good to tell u wats in your PC. So i downloaded it and found my motherboard number.. Then serached my motherboard..
here are the specs.. Can u tell me whats the best drive i can buy for this motherboard?


Form Factor ATX

Compatibility PC

Chipset SiS648

Compatible Processors Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium 4

Front Side Bus Speed 533 MHz
Convenience Features
Storage Controller Type(s) DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) x 2

South Bridge Chip SiS963

Integrated Input/Output Ports USB 2.0 x 6 • Serial Port x 1 • RJ45 Lan Port x 1 • PS/2 Mouse x 1 • PS/2 Keyboard x 1 • Parallel Port (ECP/EPP/SPP) x 1 • Game/MIDI Connector x 1 • Floppy Port x 1

Expansion Slots AGP x8 x 1 • PCI x 6
Processor
Socket Type Socket 478

Max supported CPUs qty 1
Memory
Max Supported RAM 3 GB

Memory Type DDR SDRAM

Number of Memory Slots 3 x 184 Pin DIMMs

Supported RAM speeds 333 MHz
Audio / Video
Video Interface AGP 8x

Audio Output Sound Card

Integrated Audio ADI 1980

Audio Input Microphone Jack • 1 x Line In
Communication
Networking Type Network adapter
Other Features
Chassis Type Not available

Package Qty 1

Other Features Chassis intrusion detection • Hyper Thread Technology Ready

Fans 2 x 3-pin fan headers
Dimensions
Depth 9.65 in.

Width 12.02 in.
Warranty
Warranty 3 Years
Miscellaneous
Bios Type 2 Mbit Flash EEPROM with Award BIOS

MPN P4S8X-X

Product ID 20726005

Bios Features Plug And Play BIOS • WfM2.0 • DMI 2.3 • PCI 2.2 • SMBIOS 2.3

Power Configurations Wake On Ring Header • Wake On LAN Header • Suspend to RAM • Wakeup from Keyboard/Mouse • Suspend to Disk (Hibernate)

Regulatory Approval FCC Class B

From what i understand from your posts and what is here i can get a ATA drive 133 ultra max? Is that right? Its all French 2 me lol

I would go with the line of Western Digital's ATA 7200 rpm hd's, they are nice and fast and seem to be the most stable (all brands of HD's can be defective and crash because they are so intricate in their mechanisms) and not having cacheing problems since you are intimitated with SATA and RAID. But, SATA is not as alien as you may think and very, very fast, the connector just looks different.

I have fitted a lot of Maxtor HDD all different sizes i havnt had any truble yet with them well so fare lolÂÂ!

To Be quite honest most good companies are the same..

So any drive by Seagate- maxtor- Western digital- Toshiba- Samsung or Quantum will be very good. It is important to buy a good brand and make sure you get the cover from the shop u buy it from... Also the shop that you are buying from can give you some good advice on what product is best for you. If you can understand SATA then this is what i would go with as ITEK said its not so hard 2 understand and its a different connection... here is a good place to get SATA and SAS explained http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...index.htmlÂÂ! Thanks Digi Life! Loz

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Brand should not matter much.....but stay away from anything labeled "generic"...that would be fake crap stuff.

As to SATA and ATA, they are just connection types, like SCSI or whatever else. RAID it a Redundant Array of Independant Drives, and it refers to a setup of drives that can do many different things. (only for 2 or more HDDs)

This is pretty much what everybody else said, isn't it? : Oh well, what the heck ;D

Thanks for the info... peeps. I decided after reading etc. to go with a SATA drive. Will let you all know what i got when i buy it... Can you all send me pics and info on drives also will a SATA drive work with my mobo?? Thanks again Kraggy

good choice!!!

yeah

if it were me, i would go for a 160GB Maxtor, And Run It with your old hard drive as a slave, but that is just me. ;D