Hard drive

[undyingking]

I need to get a new hard drive for my PC. I've not bought one for around 3 years, and that mfr (Maxtor) doesn't even exist any more... any of you bought one recently, or otherwise kept up with devpts? Who's good these days?

Internal drives mostly seem to be SATA now, which am I right in thinking isn't back-compatible with my ATA motherboard? But maybe I should be considering an external one instead -- how practical is it to use such as an actual working drive, rather than just for backup etc?

Any thoughts / recs / etc welcome!

Comments

[chrisvenus]

Is this a main system drive or just an additional storage space one?

Personally I'd be thinking about getting a SATA card for my computer and getting an internal drive. That will, I'd have thought, give better performance than a USB connected one. That having been said I'd also advise checking your motherboard to confirm whether it has SATA connectors on it or not. I don't think having ATA connectors on it necessarily means it doesn't have SATA ones.

Not really got any recs for brands at at the moment though, sorry.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

It's to be a subsidiary system drive as it were, ie. it won't be running Windows or apps, but it will have a load of working project files that are being worked on in a 'live' type way.

Good point, I'll check the motherboard for secret SATA¹ connectors! Although it's six years old and was pretty cheapie then, so I wouldn't expect it.

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1 It gives you 5MB worth of data, but you don't know who it came from.