Where can I find.....

[QuietMike]

I am looking to buy a new hardrive around 40-80gigs and I was wondering if anyone new where I could find comparisons. Or if anyone knows of any ggod ones that would be great too. Thanks.

[gse]

buy several smaller drives and set up on
raid 5. You will get speed, disc space and redundancy. I wouldn't go for single huge drive

[QuietMike]

Would a single hard drive really matter if I am only really using it for storage on my desktop? Not a server or anything.

[sandman]

http://www.pricewatch.com the site lists prices form 1000's of sites on everything you need for your comp http://adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[sandman]

40 gig $118 plus shipping http://adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[QuietMike]

thanks

[QuietMike]

I shit, I am finally a Big Jerk.
Another great great reason to get drunk tonight....hehe http://adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[QuietMike]

Shit....umm I found the hardrive I am most likely to get (maxtor 80gig). Only one problem though. Right now all of the drive bays on my computer are taken up. So I think I have a plan but I don't know if it will work. I figured I would take my floppy drive out and install the hardrive in that 3.5" bay. Then, make an image copy of everything on my current hardrive and put it on my new hardrive. Then uninstall my current hardrive and put the new one in its place and also put the floppy back in its place. Would that work???? I have never installed or replaced a harddrive before.

[bitz]

why not just get an external hardrive or a zip drive?

[sandman]

Buy a pci ide controller they are like $40 and you can add more devices then http://adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[QuietMike]

bitz - I have an external zip250 drive but its 2 slow and small. External hardrives are 2 slow. I want around 40-80gigs on a fast hd.

Sandman - I'll check out those pci ide controllers you where talking about.

Thanks a lot everyone for te comments. I really apreciate it. http://adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[magnatique]

first off, you don't need a bay for your drive to be in a good place...

usually, you'll have 2 spots in your case where you can mount the drives WITHOUT beeing in the cd-rom_like bay....

best is to get a new bigger case dude...
I've got this HUGE full tower, and all my bay are used LOL http://adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/tongue.gif


guy, check http://www.storagereview.com
for the best reviews and comparisons..

Be careful THOUGH.... with big drives, come big LOSS :-)

the best IDEA IMHO is to get a 80 gig drive...
and to put say your current main drive of say, 20gigs, and to put it in raid with 20 gigs of the 80 gig drive...

THAT way, you'll have 20 gig of data that is almost 100% safe from any HD failure... and still have 60gig of less important storage...

obviously, the best would be for you to buy a scsi card, and get 3 80 gigs scsi drive, and build this kick ass scsi raid, but heh, we're not all full of cash http://adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[gse]

When it comes to hardware you most always get what you pay for. Get a cheap shit
from unknown supplier and most certainly will pay bundle in a long run.
For just desktop and storage solution, that's not demanding applications. I'd just go with
separate box connected on network. Or would use bigger case and build raid, wouldn't go
with ide, it's shit, always go with scci unless you care less about performance.

For the servers, that's hell more demanding stuff. For dns and mail boxes I go with simple solution 3 drives raid level 1 and backup drive (just stay away from OnStream it's shit)
For webservers I go with the best: raid cards from AMI ( http://americanmegatrends.com ), scci drives from IBM, cpu from AMD, those are are twice faster than PIII. And backup drives from seagate, I use scorpion 40 DAT drives, those kick asses. But all this expensive like fuck. However, the reliablity that's what counts in the long run. My webservers has been running for 6 month with 100% uptime now. So again you get what you pay for.
Took me lot of time and mistakes to learn this stuff, just wanna pass along my experiences.

[ragnar]

check some auction site or something like that if you're lucky you can buy a big harddrive wich is fast and cheap

ragnar