118$ for a 120gb hardrive a good deal?

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:20 pm

Here is the info

Announcing the Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP; latest generation of hard drives from IBM's award-winning Deskstar family. The new family of drives incorporates both new and proven technologies to boost system performance. The Deskstar 180GXP provides the capacity and performance required to handle a wide range of advanced desktop and audio/video applications. Hitachi has standardized features in their desktop drives to supply lower acoustics, faster transfer rates and low-power utilization to make the Deskstar 180GXP drive ideal for non-PC, high-performance computing requirements.

Technology for capacity and performance

Three-disk design provides a higher capacity with 180GB at 7200rpm performance.
IBM-designed onboard processor provides faster speeds than the previous generation.
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) brings SCSI-like performance to ATA server applications.
Enhanced servo system provides fast, reliable head positioning. The superior areal density combines with the faster processor and streamlined cache buffer to enable award-winning performance for both the Deskstar hard drive and your system. Enhancements to the servo system and thermal monitor help to enable accurate data storage and retrieval. Combined together, these technologies enable popular capacity points and are designed to increase reliability.

Technology for reliability

Load/unload head ramps
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors
Differential read channel
Internal thermal monitor
Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
S.M.A.R.T Self Test
True-Track Servo
No-ID sector formatting

Fluid Dynamic Bearing motors provide improved acoustics over traditional ball bearing spindle motors. FDB motors will continue to be used more frequently in hard disk drive designs, particularly in applications requiring very high spindle speeds, high areal densities, and low acoustic noise.

The Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP matches the drive capacity and performance guidelines for Microsoft* Windows* XP- (40GB minimum and 7200rpm performance).

Capacity: 120GB
Seek Time: 8.5ms
7200RPM
2MB Buffer
Ultra ATA 100 Interface
1 Year Limited Manufacturer Warranty

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:42 pm

It this a high quality hard drive?

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:44 pm

yeah pretty much

Capacity: 120GB - nice!
Seek Time: 8.5ms - good
7200RPM - quick speed! provding you have a fast cable
2MB Buffer - yep
Ultra ATA 100 Interface - good
1 Year Limited Manufacturer Warranty - always handy, but then they rarely fail in a year

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:54 pm

its a good price.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:56 pm

I'll probally get it. Right now I've got a 30gb hard drive. With about 2gb free, 1.77gb free on XP partiton, and 577mb free on the 98 parttition. I thought I'd play Mafia later on, but I uninstalled it. Mafia take up about 1.8gb. I can probally free up enough to install Mafia but that means the hard drive will be pratically complety full. Now you see why I am in need of a new hard drive.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 3:48 pm

Are there any IDE cables that you can plug more than two devices into?

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 3:55 pm

Calavera wrote:Are there any IDE cables that you can plug more than two devices into?

you need more then just a 3 device cable. I think most IDE controllers can only handle up to 2 devices per IDE channel.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 3:57 pm

Is there any other way besides buying an IDE card?

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 4:26 pm

don't think so.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 7:03 pm

I guess I'll just copy everything to the new drive.

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 12:56 am

If you have firewire you can get an external hard drive case that any hard drive will plug right into. I have an external 180 gigger that I did that to, because I already had 4 hard drives in my computer.

butters · Post by **butters** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 4:49 am

Or just get one of those PCI things to plug in another IDE slot. They don't cost too much.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 7:37 am

Do you know where I could buy one at a reasonable price?

DrugAddict · Post by **DrugAddict** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 12:59 pm

$118 US isn't a good deal for a hard drive... I can EASILY get a 40 gigger at that price. (seen em go for that price but in Canadian!). Get the computer paper if there's one in your area.. very good thing to have.

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 1:24 pm

DrugAddict wrote:$118 US isn't a good deal for a hard drive... I can EASILY get a 40 gigger at that price. (seen em go for that price but in Canadian!). Get the computer paper if there's one in your area.. very good thing to have.

The spec of the drive that Calavera posted wrote: Capacity: 120GB
Seek Time: 8.5ms
7200RPM
2MB Buffer

I'd say it's worth it

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 4:48 pm

I don't get it. You can get get a 40gb harddrive fo $118 and you think thats a good deal. I can get a 120gb drive for the same price and you think it isn't a good deal.

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:19 pm

ok now that's confusing.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:22 pm

Calavera wrote:I don't get it. You can get get a 40gb harddrive fo $118 and you think thats a good deal. I can get a 120gb drive for the same price and you think it isn't a good deal.

I think he thought it was a 20gb..

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:48 pm

Thats probally what happened.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:00 pm

Most people say that you should split the drive into 20gb partitions. What is the real benefit of this?