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DVD RW & HDD Storage devices undecided...recommendations??
I'm nearly at the stage of finalising my parts for a new system, but need
some recommendations on the following storage devices or another model I haven't thought about Firstly a DVD burner (-/+ RW drives): Narrowed down to the Liteon 811S (8x), the LG 4061B or the Pioneer 107 (8x). Which one? Secondly are two 120GB 7200 8MB SATA drives for use in a RAID 0 array and one IDE 120GB ATA133 8MB drive used as the main boot drive. I can't decide for the SATA drives between the Maxtor, Seagate or Western Digital . For the IDE drive I was thinking between the Hitachi and the Maxtor. Any suggestions? While I need advice on the above decision mainly I'm happy to hear any opinions or suggestions on the rest of my system as follows: Asus P4C800 E Deluxe Intel P4 3.2C 800 Sparkle SP8835-PT Graphics Card 2 sticks of 512MB 3500 Kingmax RAM (or 3200 Kingston) 120GB HDD (undecided model) 2 x 120GB SATA HDD - RAID 0 (undecided model) Antec 1080AMG case Pioneer 16x slot DVD STAudio DSP24 Value soundcard (from my old system) Thanks for any advice... Matt |
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MT wrote:
I'm nearly at the stage of finalising my parts for a new system, but need some recommendations on the following storage devices or another model I haven't thought about Firstly a DVD burner (-/+ RW drives): Narrowed down to the Liteon 811S (8x), the LG 4061B or the Pioneer 107 (8x). Which one? Secondly are two 120GB 7200 8MB SATA drives for use in a RAID 0 array and one IDE 120GB ATA133 8MB drive used as the main boot drive. I can't decide for the SATA drives between the Maxtor, Seagate or Western Digital . For the IDE drive I was thinking between the Hitachi and the Maxtor. Any suggestions? Any particular reason why you want to use your slower disk as the system disk and the faster RAID 0 as storage only? Normally you want the fastest disk configuration as your system drive. Personally, I'd use either the RAID or get one of the WD Raptors as the system disk in a system costing this much. |
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MT wrote:
I'm nearly at the stage of finalising my parts for a new system, but need some recommendations on the following storage devices or another model I haven't thought about Firstly a DVD burner (-/+ RW drives): Narrowed down to the Liteon 811S (8x), I love liteon for cdrws the LG 4061B You mean the 4081B? Either way, I've had a look at LG's websites and they're support there doesn't seem very good. Not sure about now, but even after these drives were being sold in retail shops they STILL didn't have them listed as even existing on their web sites (both in Australia and USA). There were some other bits of oddness at the LG websites, too. or the Pioneer 107 (8x). The LG website dodginess, and my very nice Pioneer multiregion stand alone DVD player, I went with the Pioneer 107. I'm not disappointed at all. One of the best computer component purchases I've made. The Pioneer site is great, and they've got a loyal customer base because of the high quality of their drives. Which one? Secondly are two 120GB 7200 8MB SATA drives for use in a RAID 0 array and one IDE 120GB ATA133 8MB drive used as the main boot drive. I can't decide for the SATA drives between the Maxtor, Seagate or Western Digital . For the IDE drive I was thinking between the Hitachi and the Maxtor. Any suggestions? While I need advice on the above decision mainly I'm happy to hear any opinions or suggestions on the rest of my system as follows: Asus P4C800 E Deluxe Intel P4 3.2C 800 Sparkle SP8835-PT Graphics Card 2 sticks of 512MB 3500 Kingmax RAM (or 3200 Kingston) 120GB HDD (undecided model) 2 x 120GB SATA HDD - RAID 0 (undecided model) Antec 1080AMG case Pioneer 16x slot DVD STAudio DSP24 Value soundcard (from my old system) Thanks for any advice... Matt -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo |
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WD SATA Raptors (10,000 RPM) in RAID 0 for system (they are definitely
fast) - 120 GB IDE drive for storage and backup. I'm using the Raptors (2 X 36GB) RAID 0 in an AMD64 3200 system. Very satisfied. Have you looked at the Plextor 708A for a dual format DVD and CDR/RW? Here's a link to a review if you want to take a look at it: http://www.gotapex.com/reviews.php?r...dvd/index.html Fitz |
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Good point Barry. My main reason was simply because of the extra 145GB space
(compared to the WD Raptor) and the fact that it was cheaper. But, you make a good point. I think I'll take your advice and get the 10k rpm 36GB Raptor drive for my system and main software drive. This should surely be enough space for WinXP, Office and music and movie video editing software and then I still have 240GB more space for data on the RAID 0 SATA drives. Thanks for your help... Matt "BarryNL" wrote in message ... MT wrote: Any particular reason why you want to use your slower disk as the system disk and the faster RAID 0 as storage only? Normally you want the fastest disk configuration as your system drive. Personally, I'd use either the RAID or get one of the WD Raptors as the system disk in a system costing this much. |
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MT wrote:
Good point Barry. My main reason was simply because of the extra 145GB space (compared to the WD Raptor) and the fact that it was cheaper. But, you make a good point. I think I'll take your advice and get the 10k rpm 36GB Raptor drive for my system and main software drive. This should surely be enough space for WinXP, Office and music and movie video editing software and then I still have 240GB more space for data on the RAID 0 SATA drives. Thanks for your help... Matt "BarryNL" wrote in message ... MT wrote: Any particular reason why you want to use your slower disk as the system disk and the faster RAID 0 as storage only? Normally you want the fastest disk configuration as your system drive. Personally, I'd use either the RAID or get one of the WD Raptors as the system disk in a system costing this much. the raptor's rule: apparent speed similar to 2x7200rpm drives in raid 0. they're available in 76GB now, but 36GB is *plenty* for an OS drive. ric h |
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