Hard Drive Suggestions

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:09 pm

I bought 2 maxtor maxline 3 300 gb sata 150 drives, 5 year warrenty. like 150 each or somthing

jonnyb · Post by **jonnyb** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:18 pm

Chris wrote:here is another question. If I wanted to hook all 3 HDD's (my original, DVR, and this new) to my computer, what do I need to do? I only have 2 connectors that I can see in there. Do they make a cable that allows you to connect 3, that is just plugs in?

how many optical drives do you have?
if you only have one, there should be an open slot on the IDE cable. on the motherboard, there are two IDE cable connectors, one is usually blue, and the other grey. the IDE cables have two connectors on them. which mean, if you only have 1 optical drive (CD/DVD) then you can just hook em all together. (the HDD and the CD/DVD can go on the same IDE cable.

as for the USB card, the belkin is fine.
as for the HDD, bam. that one is the same drive you linked, only cheaper. (consider shipping too)

maxtor, western digital, and seagate are all reliable HDD makers.

and when considering HDDs, look at RPMs, and Buffer size.

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:55 pm

jonnyb wrote:how many optical drives do you have?
if you only have one, there should be an open slot on the IDE cable. on the motherboard, there are two IDE cable connectors, one is usually blue, and the other grey. the IDE cables have two connectors on them. which mean, if you only have 1 optical drive (CD/DVD) then you can just hook em all together. (the HDD and the CD/DVD can go on the same IDE cable.

as for the USB card, the belkin is fine.
as for the HDD, bam. that one is the same drive you linked, only cheaper. (consider shipping too)

maxtor, western digital, and seagate are all reliable HDD makers.

and when considering HDDs, look at RPMs, and Buffer size.

Amen. Don't forget to look for low seek and read times too. Watch sunday sales at Best Buy/Circuit City/etc. You can pick up 160's and all for like 50 or 60 bucks.

As for IDE cables, there is only master and slave, so two ports per motherboard connection.

As for Belkin, overall they are decent with good prices. The only thing I'd avoid from them would be mice. I had one, the worst mouse I have ever owned. As for their routers, I personally don't like them. When you get advanced with them, they don't tend to have enough features and can be buggy. I've had a few D-Link routers, never any real problems. Linksys was always flawless for me.

Good idea on waiting to upgrade. I'm holding off for the X2 64's to drop in price.