Its interesting to note that whilst all the Hard drive manufacturers are reducing their warranties to just 12 months from 3 years that Samsung have upped theirs to 3 years. In PCpro magazine they rated the Spinpoint series very highly and only a tad slower than the Hitachi /IBM offerings with the bonus that they are very quiet. The 160gb Ultra ATA disc sells for �83 plus vat here in the UK. www.simply.co.uk sells them and www.samsunghdd.com has all the spec There is little speed benefit in SATA just yet although the hot swappable facility may prove useful to some.
Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "ian reynolds" < Subject: [PRODIG] Raid on pc > Dear list, > > Wanting to make a raid for swap files on an xp pro machine > > I have two options as I am on a budget > > Buy another western digital 80gb drive (as I have one for storage) to > make a udma 100 raid using a pci raid card. > > Or buy two small 18gb scsi drives and get a scsi raid card (don't know > which scsi raid card exist) > > Or buy a serial ata 150 raid card and two small sata 150 drives. > > Any suggestions on model numbers at all please. > > cheers > > Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
