WTB: 300GB or more internal IDE hard drive

[snyper77]

I am in the market for some more hard drive space. Looking for a good deal on a 300GB or higher capacity IDE internal hard drive. Looking for 8.9ms seek time or faster. Thanks.

[MeNiS]

here you go....seagate 320GB for $60 with free shipping:

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/5321968

[snyper77]

I have looked on 5 different sites that have this hard drive and I can't find seek time, write time, nothing. Help please. :)

[tchan]

Look on newegg.... (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2+50001305+40000014&Manufactory=1305&SubCategory=14&SpeTabStoreType=1)

[P51Mstg]

As an owner of hard drives of all kinds and sizes, you can rest assured that the slow downs are not really dive related in most cases.

Speed comes from using a FIREWIRE 800 interface (a card you drop in your PC) which off the top of my head allows about 2X as much data to flow in to your machine over a USB 2.0. It also comes from maxing out the RAM in your computer (amazing increase in speed).

Personally I have about 1 TB (1000 Gigs) in the computer I use for applications and "scratch" storage (temporary stuff I'm working on). I also have 2 Lacie 2TB external drives (Firewire) I store Pics on and another older Maxtor 1TB external (USB 2.0) that I store stuff from the web on. I also have another of each one to back up those drives. When I do a backup, I remove the backup drive and put it in a safe place.

Another HUGE ONE is a FAST GAMING type video card. Mine has like 640Megs of RAM on it and you can blur the screen by flipping through RAW files as fast as you can hit the arrow keys (as opposed to waiting 10 seconds for them to load).

Of course another thing is processor speed. TWO Dual Core Processors will make your machine scream too.

On the New HD, I suggest an external case (a decent one too, spend like $25 not $8 on it; which gets you a better power supply, a longer cord, better cooling). That way when some internet bug eats your computer some time in the future, you can unplug the drive and plug it into a new machine. Also Instead of 320Gig, might as well go for 500+ now. Price isn't too much more. You can never have enough space.

Personally I buy a LOT of stuff from GEEKS . Com. They have drives and cases to put them into. It takes about 3 minutes to assemble one. They keep getting easier every time..........

If you need help PM me. Have a good day.

Mark H