Psycho Sniper said:
Is it bad when your PC cant start due to not being able to detect your HD or OS (and yes, I already know my HD is failing :p )
Does anyone know anything about new HDs ? I’m probably going to get one real soon..........
2 suggestions:
Western Digital 120GB Special Edition It's of course, Western Digital (reliable, long-lasting, fairly high performance) but also (loud, power-consuming, hot). This is my suggestion if your motherboard does
not support SATA.
Seagate "Barracuda" 160GB SATAVery quiet, better performance than aforementioned WD one, lower power consumption, but far more importantly: SATA-150
Native Command Queing This will last you years into the future with satisfactory performance, but, as I said before, it requires SATA on your motherboard, (If I remember, NCQ is linked to the Southbridge, and thus the chipset, so if SATA is not on the motherboard[if you were using a converter], then NCQ could not work, or perhaps not even the drive.
Oh, and to finish off the thread title, it's bad when your computer starts up and smoke creeps out of the top. Yes, I've watched this happen.
Ratty said:
Well, I think it might be bad, yes.
As for new hard drives... well, depends on what motherboard you have and how much money you can spend. If your motherboard doesn't support Serial ATA, get an UDMA/133 HDD, but make sure it has 8 MB cache. If it supports SATA, get a SATA HDD, also with 8 MB of cache. Of course, make sure your new hard drive has speed at least 7200 rpm. If you don't mind paying a lot of money for a new drive, then buy Western Digital Raptor, the best hard drive ever. It's a SATA HDD, of course, it comes with 8 MB cache and its speed is mind-boggling - 10,000 rpm. With Raptor you will definitely feel an improvement in your system's overall performance.
I apologize for my harsh language, but....
Damnit ratty, this is exactly the kind of thing that has my #$%#ing grandmother with a P4 3.2E right now. That is: the lack of consideration for the use of the computer. A little old lady doesn't need a 3.2, I don't need (nor would accept, even if you paid me to) a Celeron, and Psycho doesn't need a raptor. Even more so, price notwithstanding, the barracuda will be far more useful. Unless he's wiling to have 2 or 3 raptors in his system, he won't have enough space (for comfort) to last him for years to come. Remember, his HDD just died, he isn't looking to have a performance drive for just system files and games, he needs one for everything. \
Once again, I apologize for my harsh language.
