Going to buy new Hard drive?

[flierbill]

Hi everyone, I am going to buy a new hard Drive instead of buying a SCSI controller to work with the two SCSI drives I have
I can spend up to $80.00 bucks.

please suggest one! and I want to make sure my BIOS will work with the new big drive.


Bill

[Omardeth]

need to know what kinda system you have and what the motherboard is to know how big a harddrive you can have .

[flierbill]

TekRam P6B40-A4X i440BX win98se 256mb ram
Award PCI BIOS, support ACPI, DMI, Green PC, Plug-and-Play,
Boot from CD-ROM, SCSI, LS-120, and ZIP devices
Symbios SCSI BIOS.

Bill

[Jeordiewhite]

How about
WD WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE 80GB 7200RPM $73http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=1&submit=Go&description=WD800 BB

[John Prophet]

Code: 92923224 Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache hard drive $109.84 - $15 in link - $30 rebate = $64.84. Item 678808 You must select in store pickup to see lower price.
$30 rebate Exp 9/6/03

rebate http://rebates.teg-online.com/office...asp?sku=678808

office depot

see http://www.techbargains.com/

Its a maxtor 120g follow the instructions at the techbargains site.

Maybe doubtful if that motherboard will support this big a drive. Maybe better with an 80g or something. Or else you may have to get a controller card to allow the bigger size. I think the 160g and above usually come with cards.

if you arent familiar with rebates..be SURE, ABSOLUTELY SURE to fill it all out correctly and DOUBLE SURE to make copies of everythign, upc, rebate forms, receiept etc...cuz they will try to rip u off, lol.

JP

[flierbill]

Hi everyone, I have to hold off buying that hard drive, I just got laid off from my job, I will be online more now

Bill

[no1_vern]

Originally posted by flierbill
Hi everyone, I have to hold off buying that hard drive, I just got laid off from my job, I will be online more now

Bill

ow, ow!!
Thats bad news my friend. I hope everything goes well for you and that you get a new job quickly.

[flierbill]

Well I got a good job making more money so I might just start a new prodject.

Bill

[Fishtales]

Bill,

Consider getting two or more smaller HDD's for the following reasons:
1.) Backing up a 120 gig drive can be a pain and is expensive if you have a bunch of data.
2.) If it crashes, you lose everything you haven't backed up and everything will need to be reloaded if recovery fails.
3.) Using multiple smaller drives eases the pain of #1 & 2 above.

I like two or more 40 to 60 gig drives.

FishTales