HD for A7N8X Deluxe

[IceCanuck]

Need some advice on a hard drive for my A7N8X Deluxe board, which supports IDE ATA133, and SATA. This system will mostly be used as a desktop, games, email, office, etc...

I have my eye on the "Maxtor 80G ATA133 7200rpm 8M 6Y080P0 Hydraulic" which is selling for around $180 (Canadian).

From what I understand about my motherboard, I should be getting a hard drive that supports ATA133, and has 8M of buffer cache. Basically, I'm looking at the best/fastest 80Gig ATA133 hard drives and pricing them up. I know that there are some SATA drives out now, but I haven't seen any in Canada (plus they don't seem to be any faster). Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[jlanka]

AFAIK there aren't any drives with BOTH ATA133 and 8MB cache. WD has 8MB cache drives and Maxtor has ATA133. The general consensus seems to be that 8MB cache is a better performance boost than ATA133. So I've been buying WD 8MB cache drives.

There's a rumor that WD will be announcing SATA drives at 10,000 RPM. I'm going to hold off on any drive purchases until the dust settles on that.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[IceCanuck]

What do you mean that "AKAIK there aren't any drives with BOTH ATA133 and 8MB cache". From what I can tell, the Maxtor "L0" models have a 2MB cache with ATA/133, the "P0" models have a 8MB cache with ATA/133, and the "M0" models have a 8MB cache with SATA/150.

The drive that now interests me is the Maxtor 6Y080M0 which is a 80G drive that supports SATA/150, has a 8MB cache, and has a rotational speed of 7200RPM (but which I can't find anywhere).

I'd love to wait for some 10,000RPM drives to come out, but I don't have that option

 

[jlanka]

thats exactly what I meant

AFAIK = As Far As I Know. Not the gospel truth. Just my knowledge.

Thanks for the updates on the recent availability of the faster/bigger cache drives. I guess I haven't been keeping up with things as closely as I thought. Good luck with your purchase.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[IceCanuck]

Heh, sorry...didn't mean to sound snitty. For some reason I was thinking that AFAIK stood for "as far as I am concerned". Yeah, just ignore my stupidity.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

yes... there is the Diamond max 9 series of drive
ata133, 8mb cache, and possibly Fluid bearings.

<b>My Computer is so powerful Sauron Desires it and mortal men Covet it, <i>My Precioussssssss</i></b>

 

[fiask0]

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