Eide Harddrive?
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: KXM
This seems REALLY cheep for a hard drive. Is this a normal Hard drive?
I have a dell. $100 for a 120GB seems too cheep. What is EIDE?
Samsung
Info...
SAMSUNG 120.0GB 5400RPM ATA EIDE UDMA-100 120GB ATA 100 OEM
(Part - SAM-120-54)
Price: $101
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Ship 1 : $4.99 Flat Fee Commercial
Updated:3/23, 9:21AM
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Posted by: leecheskicked
enhanced IDE is an improvement on normal ide, faster transfer rate if your board supports it, still works as normal even if it doesn't. but $100 bucks seems way cheap even for spoilt american consumers in UK it would be $200+
Posted by: Nobody1234
Enhanced IDE will work with just about every modern PC. That drive will be fine as a second drive for data and backups.
If you intend to have only that drive in your system try to find one that is 7200RPM.
Posted by: Soul814
im pretty sure all hard drives are compatiable w/ every computer... lol
Posted by: Nightwolf
Yes, unless you have a really old computer EIDE should work fine. The reason it's so cheap is because it's only 5400rpm. You can get a 7200 for only $20 more at Comp-U-Plus (I just bought this one):
http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?s...37gf&id=1000369 (http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?sid=2h20uqkk76537gf&id=1000369)
Posted by: Soul814
www.newegg.com
sooo cheap there
Posted by: KXM
THNX all... God, I love this board... EVERYONE is very helpful.
Posted by: Supernatural
5400rpm is good enough. 7200rpm has no noticeable advantage.