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cyrnel · 03-17-2005, 10:16 PM

Not building many servers these days so I'm not the word on drives. The Seagate 160's I've used were measurably faster in both access and transfer than WD and Maxtor, in that order. All were SATA 7200RPM 8MB cache on the same 754 AMD 64 board (DFI LanParty). I have a Hitachi too, but didn't when I was testing. Better feel-good from the Seagates so far. YMMV.

Absolutely, get the DVD burner. Dual layer dual format drives go for $50 or less if you watch Officemax/Officedepot/Staples. The box brands are random but inside you find Benq, Liteon, or NEC most of the time. Remember you'll likely replace it in a year with Blu-Ray or whatever 100+GB format becomes the new thing.

Edit: Don't worry too much about 12 or 16x writing speeds (vs 8x). The media for high speed single layer or any dual layer is unrealistic and may not get much better before it becomes old.

03-17-2005, 10:16 PM	#16 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Not building many servers these days so I'm not the word on drives. The Seagate 160's I've used were measurably faster in both access and transfer than WD and Maxtor, in that order. All were SATA 7200RPM 8MB cache on the same 754 AMD 64 board (DFI LanParty). I have a Hitachi too, but didn't when I was testing. Better feel-good from the Seagates so far. YMMV. Absolutely, get the DVD burner. Dual layer dual format drives go for $50 or less if you watch Officemax/Officedepot/Staples. The box brands are random but inside you find Benq, Liteon, or NEC most of the time. Remember you'll likely replace it in a year with Blu-Ray or whatever 100+GB format becomes the new thing. Edit: Don't worry too much about 12 or 16x writing speeds (vs 8x). The media for high speed single layer or any dual layer is unrealistic and may not get much better before it becomes old. Last edited by cyrnel; 03-17-2005 at 10:21 PM..