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Postby kemplen » Thu Oct 09, 2003 5:25 am

... have filled my drive up!
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Re: new drive?

Postby Iroquois » Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:24 am

I've used both Maxtor and Western Digital and they both work fine. If your computer has internal SCSI or Firewire connections, you may want to go with that but ATA is good too. You'll want at least  7200rpm. Hard drives are pretty cheap now so get one with a decent size, 80GB or more for all thoes FS aircraft.  :)  
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Re: new drive?

Postby Daz » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:44 am

maxtor is pretty good i run a 40 gig maxtor and a seagate 80 gig baracuda and have had no problems with them- like orenda said go for 7200 at least to get best performance. incidently how big is your HD at the moment this will help so we are not suggesting stupendous amounts of disk space when u only need like 10 gig or something but if its a 40 gig and its filled up go for at least 80
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Re: new drive?

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:59 am

Beware I.B.M. / Hitachi drives, Some dodgy 120gb drives are about from these (actually the same!) manufacturer. - Hitachi now produce I.B.M. drives.... My brother in law's 2 dead IBM drives are testament to this!

I have an 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.
Its nice & fast loading, but a little slow installing i.e. writing.....
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Re: new drive?

Postby Jared » Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:54 am

Seagate barracuda drives are working rpetty good for me right now...

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Re: new drive?

Postby kemplen » Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:36 am

.... have only got a 6 and a 12gig at present! .... have got an 80gig seagate in mind, .... I shall be getting it on thursday now, thanks for the responses, I,m going in the right direction!
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