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Should I keep this hard drive?

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neozengar   07-25-2009 at 07:22:04 AM

I am building a new budget computer that is mainly for the use of internet and school work. I have this from my old PC :

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822144122

Size is not very important to me and I was wondering if I switch to this:

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136074

Would I see a very significant difference in program loading and for general computer usage? I really appreciate your help.


Message edited by neozengar on 07-25-2009 at 07:22:46 AM
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jitpublisher   07-25-2009 at 03:23:14 PM

Yes, you will see some difference. Huge, no, but a difference yes.

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   07-25-2009 at 07:54:20 PM

I suspect (and I have absolutely no evidence for this) that you'd see a bigger performance boost just by having a freshly installed, non-fragmented OS on your old disk than if you were to copy your old image to the new disk.

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neozengar   07-26-2009 at 03:09:57 AM

Thanks for the heads up. Currently, I have this w800jb but my I have been people selling the SATA version of this hdd for 10 bucks on craigslist, would there be big differences in the IDE and SATA version of this model? Thanks.

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INSPECTOR71   07-26-2009 at 11:34:18 AM

neozengar wrote :

Thanks for the heads up. Currently, I have this w800jb but my I have been people selling the SATA version of this hdd for 10 bucks on craigslist, would there be big differences in the IDE and SATA version of this model? Thanks.


Yes the sata will perform alot better.

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Duesouth   07-26-2009 at 06:42:31 PM

you will definitely see a big difference, hmm like 2 seconds boot time but the main difference is the transferring of files from one sata to another sata. ie you might save like 1 minutes on a 1 gig file.

sata is worth it over eide.
sata 1 1.5 gb/s
sata 2 3.0 gb/s
eide 100mb /s
eide 133mb/s

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mindless728   07-26-2009 at 07:23:31 PM

actually the AAKS drive should be a good deal faster, i think it is a single platter driver (the first WD 640GB with 2 platters is an AAKS)

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neozengar   07-26-2009 at 09:24:21 PM

thanks for the suggestion. I am leaning toward to aaks now for about 50 bucks.

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