RE: New PC Build (slightly OT)

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

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I'm using the 100Gb Maxtor drive and although you're right about it being a 5,400 rpm drive I would suggest buying two and striping data across them ... the data rate (sustained) to and from the drive is high enough anyway but a pair (or even 4) striped will give you a lot of extra bandwidth to be safe.

 

As I said earlier I like the 5,400 rpm drives as they run cool - 7,200rpm drives run pretty hot and that can't be good for them - the higher spindle speed also seems more likely to induce resonances in the PC case!

 

I plan to buy another three so I can use four configured as a striped array giving about 372Mb as a single drive when I get back to work.

 

Phil

 

Anybody recommend a decent 100GB (ish) hard disk? Was going to get the Maxtor at Scan, but its only 5400rpm.....  I'm planning to use it for games and PVR stuff with probably ShowShifter

ATI All in Wonder Radeon - looking for compromise between gameplay and PVR-ness...... unless anyone can suggest something better.....? (someone suggested possibly getting a Geforce 3 and having a seperate PCI tv in/out etc card - I'll be recording from sky digital so svideo in and out with no ariel should work.......????)

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