Hard drive choice

Vu Pham vu
Wed Mar 7 11:51:55 PST 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:00 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> OK, my fancy new MB has arrived, a Gigabyte GA-7VT600.  Oooooohh!
> Now I need some drives.  My old drives were SCSI but the list has 
> convinced me that trying to use my old SCSI drives and controller might 
> be a waste of time, but I'd like to have some very reliable hard drives 
> and maybe be able to use device names like my SCSI drives (sda, sdb, 
> etc.) and be able to use several drives.  So are SATA drives what I 
> should use?  I like Seagate drives because they have been reliable in 
> the past and they have been very good about warranty replacements.
> Any suggestions so I can go down to Fry's and blow off half the afternoon?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/05/understanding-hard-drive-performance/
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/index.html


Vu





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