NOFX April 2, 2008 Share NOFX Member April 2, 2008 Looking for a good deal on a hard drive. My main drive is dying. Anyone have anything? I think I may pick up a 150 Raptor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters April 2, 2008 Share stutters GC Alumni April 2, 2008 if you're looking for a simple storage drive, newegg has a 640gb for $120. if you're looking for a hiperf main drive, wait for cujo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly April 2, 2008 Share dragonfly Member April 2, 2008 I bought a WD500AAKS (wd 500 gb drive) and it basically feels as fast as my 2x250gb sata2 drives in raid 0. I'd buy another one if I needed it in a heartbeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo April 2, 2008 Share anonymo Member April 2, 2008 I bought a WD500AAKS (wd 500 gb drive) and it basically feels as fast as my 2x250gb sata2 drives in raid 0. I'd buy another one if I needed it in a heartbeat. I'm using one of those as my main storage drive (and page file) and can't complain. Although make sure you have a newer motherboard...my Asus KT8 while it supports SATAII doesn't support it full speed (300Gb/s) and I had some serious driver issues with it (all a testament as to why you don't buy Asus mobos). Heck at $99 it's a steal ($94.99 at newegg) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly April 2, 2008 Share dragonfly Member April 2, 2008 (edited) I bought a WD500AAKS (wd 500 gb drive) and it basically feels as fast as my 2x250gb sata2 drives in raid 0. I'd buy another one if I needed it in a heartbeat. I'm using one of those as my main storage drive (and page file) and can't complain. Although make sure you have a newer motherboard...my Asus KT8 while it supports SATAII doesn't support it full speed (300Gb/s) and I had some serious driver issues with it (all a testament as to why you don't buy Asus mobos). Heck at $99 it's a steal ($94.99 at newegg) Got mine for $84.99 CAD from ncix.com, no PST and cheap shipping We Canadians rock. I did have to install a driver to get XP to recognize it as a drive, but after that it's been a wonderful drive. Edited April 2, 2008 by DarkArchon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack April 2, 2008 Share bushwack Member April 2, 2008 I bought a WD500AAKS (wd 500 gb drive) and it basically feels as fast as my 2x250gb sata2 drives in raid 0. I'd buy another one if I needed it in a heartbeat. I'm using one of these drives too and happy with it. Newegg had them for $99 free ship last week I think. The 500gb drive might be a better deal if you don't need that extra room like me. My last drive (2 months ago) was 250gb and I dont think it ever got half full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo April 3, 2008 Share Cujo Member April 3, 2008 the new 640gb drives look nice. a raptor is still the best if you don't need the space. this is unrelated but one thing i saw the other day guys is someone had a ssd drive as pagefile. makes awesome sense but they're very expensive and still mostly unproven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX April 3, 2008 Author Share NOFX Member April 3, 2008 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...LENT-_-20609241 I went with the raptor, but when you mentioned ssd I found this. This would be pretty sweet, its only 8 gigs though. You could throw XP on there and a few games. Should work fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest April 3, 2008 Share lousiest Member April 3, 2008 Wow.. SSD. Can't wait for the day these become the norm and prices become more affordable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo April 3, 2008 Share anonymo Member April 3, 2008 the new 640gb drives look nice. a raptor is still the best if you don't need the space. this is unrelated but one thing i saw the other day guys is someone had a ssd drive as pagefile. makes awesome sense but they're very expensive and still mostly unproven. They're coming along quite nicely. While each section (byte?) on an SSD can only be written to a certain number of times (usually around 100,000) a special writing method spreads data across the whole "surface" (plane? array?) of the drive. Supposedly with this method of writing to flash based drives, their expected life cycle is pushed well beyond that of a spinning drive, something I know was a big problem with SSD when we first saw them pop up last year. Now with Intel and STMicroelectronics making NOR flash we should hopefully see them (NAND and NOR) in more and more devices (like Zunes...the only thing I could think of) which will hopefully speed the process of mass producing SSDs for the consumer market. If you need more than 64gb on your SSD, your wait is over as a new 256gb SSD was just announced. Cujo, pick me up one will you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX April 3, 2008 Author Share NOFX Member April 3, 2008 Well guys, Im getting one of those drives in soon for work. I'll be putting Fedora 8 on a 4 gig SSD drive. I'll let everyone know how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZesteR April 3, 2008 Share ZesteR Member April 3, 2008 http://www.slickdeals.net/?permadeal=12120#direct_deal_12120 Samsung 750gb hdd for $122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoot April 3, 2008 Share shoot Member April 3, 2008 How about this SSD 832gb SSD It's only cost as much as a car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher April 3, 2008 Share Preacher Member April 3, 2008 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...ctCode=10007193 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZesteR April 3, 2008 Share ZesteR Member April 3, 2008 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...ctCode=10007193 Ya should click on my link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo April 3, 2008 Share Cujo Member April 3, 2008 hmm, an 8gb ssd would be perfect for my pagefile... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL April 4, 2008 Share dwEEziL Member April 4, 2008 Or you could just use Linux and not have a pagefile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo April 4, 2008 Share anonymo Member April 4, 2008 hmm, an 8gb ssd would be perfect for my pagefile...Oh lolOr you could just use Linux and not have a pagefile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX April 4, 2008 Author Share NOFX Member April 4, 2008 (edited) Or you could just use Linux and not have a pagefile. Doesn't your swap partition have the same functionality as a page file? Well, I take that back. Linux will not use your swap unless you run out of RAM. I know windows hits the page file when I have 1.5 gigs free... In the case of linux, I would probably throw my swap partition on an ssd. Edited April 4, 2008 by NOFX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL April 4, 2008 Share dwEEziL Member April 4, 2008 (edited) The only time my swap gets used on Linux is when the mem is maxed out or when a particularly crappily coded app is in use. Other than that, I have heard of many people who don't use one at all. Having started life in the Windows Camp, I still tend to configure a swap just in case it's needed. Edited April 4, 2008 by dwEEziL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo April 4, 2008 Share Cujo Member April 4, 2008 i agree that i hate the idea of pagefile. for some reason windows requires it. i tried getting rid of it back in the xp days and it just isn't possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo April 4, 2008 Share anonymo Member April 4, 2008 lol...hating on pagefiles?I was under the impression low-priority data (mostly Windows stuff like fonts and crap) is usually found in the pagefile to free your RAM for actual applications or in the event you run over your physical limit?Can you set specific applications to load into the page file rather than into RAM? i agree that i hate the idea of pagefile. for some reason windows requires it. i tried getting rid of it back in the xp days and it just isn't possible. wha? yes it is. just set it to none. don't go over your ram limit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack April 4, 2008 Share bushwack Member April 4, 2008 Why does everyone hate pagefiles? I don't think it matters now a days with our massive harddrives. Oh noes my 500 gig drive is being robbed of 2 gigs, the humanity! In reality I think it has something to do with stability of the OS so that when a proggy crashes it doesn't bring down the whole system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher April 5, 2008 Share Preacher Member April 5, 2008 I actually max mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly April 5, 2008 Share dragonfly Member April 5, 2008 I'm going to invent a way to use a DVD-RW drive as a pagefile drive. That way you can use 2 at once (if you have 2 dvd burners) and never ever have to use your hdd for pagefiling!!! Man I'm a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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