Any suggestions on a good fast HD?

[Grant_H]

Being that my hard drive is just about the only part I have not upgraded since i built my computer a couple years ago, it's about time for a new one (to many bad sectors and it just seems real slow). Anyone have any suggestions on a good fast HD that will not cost me to much $$$. I have EIDE interface.

Also, I have a question pertaining to what determins the speed of a HD

is it determined by:
Seek Time, Data Transfer Rate, Buffer Cache, RPM?

Basically what is the most crucial factor determining the speed of the HD?

[obiron]

Grant_H,

this might give you some of the info you seek:
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20011015/index.html

[The village idiot]

Maxtor 40 GB on sale for $50USD at Staples. Also 120GB on sale for $80USD same place.

[g_shocker182]

Village Idiot and Grant_H,

http://vcdhelp.pricegrabber.com/

/\ Awesome deals on HDs /\


If you want an extremely fast HD go with (these features are damn expensive) 10K+ RPM EIDE or SCSI.

[Grant_H]

How does this HD sound I found it for $77.00, It seems like it should be nice and fast, I think!

Capacity: 80 GB
Connectors: IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin Header
Access Time: 9 ms
Interface: IDE (ATA/EIDE/ATAPI)
Internal/External: Internal
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
System Type: PC
Transfer Rate: 150 MBytes/sec
Cache Size: 8 MB

[SLICK RICK]

Looks good to me. But I guess it all depends on what you are going to be using it for.

SLICK RICK