FYI: If you don't have any already and you buy an OEM SATA drive the cable will probably not be included. So you will need to pickup a SATA cable for each OEM SATA drive. Otherwise, the performance boost going from PATA/IDE to SATA II is your biggest bang for the buck option performance wise at this point, IMO.
Edit: Screws too - pirate them from old computer....
Go SATA II young man!
Sounds good. any way who wants a slow drive. I ran the test again with most background programs closed went much better.
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For $80-some, the Western Digital Black 1TB drive is a steal. If you want cheaper, go with a Western Digital Blue series, but don't use the Green series as other pointed out. Seagate is also a good choice, but I'd avoid other brands.
I've got a 1TB WD Caviar Black and am very happy with it's performance. I too was interested in the 2 platter 640...but the price difference between the 2 wasn't much at all. I'm getting just over 90MB/s in HDTune with this drive and I don't find it to be particularly noisy. It is a bit warmer than my previous Seagate drive...but with a single hard drive in my rather large case and great airflow...heat really isn't much of a concern.
Hi guys I am new to your forum I like it so far lot's of good info I am running 6 pc in my house on W7 RC it is a lot better than vista IMO. This rig is running W7 RC 64BIT I would like to change to W7RTM If I could fine a good download for it. Ok guys here is some benchmarks on W7 RC with raid 0 set-up with OCZ vertex SSD 120gb in raid0 on a AMD platform and it is very fast boot time 22sec
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