In real life .. doesn't appear to be any significant advantage except use in future systems.
Re failure...not a good sign but good to be aware of.
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Hello. I'm looking for a new hard drive, and after browsing newegg, I've decided I want to get in on the SATA bandwagon. My hardware:
Asus K8N
AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.6GHz
Kingston 512MB
The motherboard's SATA port has a transfer rate of 150 MB/s (SATA I, right?). So that rules out the faster SATA II. I could get one of those to look to the future, but it's not necessary. My power supply even has a couple of SATA connectors. My problem: I have no clue which drive I should get. The drive should ideally be about $90, 250GB, have 8 or 16 MB cache, decently silent, and a fairly quick seek time.
Two models I was looking at:
Western Digital
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144701
Seagate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065
The thing is, both of them seem to have a high rate of drive failure. I read through most of Seagate's reviews, and skimmed through WD's, and both of them kept complaining about the drives either being DOA or failing very shortly after purchase.
Do any of you know of any drives that are solid and meet my specs?
Thanks for any help, have a great day!
-Christopher

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