I'm buying a new harddrive

[dashiel]

I'm building an new computer which will be used for video editing.
I am looking for a harddrive around the 60 meg mark and will get an additional one at a later date.

I will have a Tyan s2460 mobo with 1.2 gig athalon xp processor (i don't know if you need to know that or not) running window xp pro.
what should i be looking for with a new hardrive?

[rangeral]

Mostly that its a 7200 rpm the faster the better also that its ata100 which most are these days. Western digital are good and Seagate will not recommend ibm or maxtor heard too many problems with them and return problems.

[Imperion1]

Um, a 60meg hard drive is rather small. Couldn't even install Windows 98 on it. lol
On the other hand, a 60Gig hard drive is quite a good size. ATA100 7200rpm.

I've heard about problems with Seagate, IBM, Western Digital, Maxtor, Quantum (which is now owned by Maxtor).

Nothing wrong with Maxtors. I currently have 3 of em right now. 13G ATA33 5400rpm, 30G ATA100 7200rpm, 40G ATA100 7200rpm. Haven't had a problem.
Most hard drive problems occur because of the user. Like not setting up the hard drive correctly, overclocking the computer by changing the fsb only which changes the clock speed for AGP, PCI, ram slots, IDE ports.
With the exception of the IBM hard drive, the one that everyone of the drives were made incorrectly and IBM was being sued for. Don't remember which one this is.
As for RMA, it depends on who you talk to. I've heard from people that Maxtor was great on this and Western Digital wasn't too good.

[vibe666]

I have a maxtor 40gig, but i didn't pay attention when i bought it and ended up with a 5400rpm drive instead of the 7200rpm i asked for.

make sure you check everything, and that you get what you ask for. check the markings on the drive say that its a 7200 drive before you put you hand in your pocket.

i never even bothered to check mine at all untill i had had it for a week and wanted to see what maxtor said about it.

checked the drive ID and went to their website and then it hit me.

DOH. stupid mistake I know, but it happens sometimes.

[dashiel]

Great, thanks.
Next question, USB or parrallel port? Does it make much of a difference?

Of course you're right i meant to say 60 gigs!

[dashiel]

and what about buffers?

[dashiel]

also just how much of a difference does going from 5400-7200 make?

sorry to split these questions up I was dying to get to upgrade to a full fledged "member":D

[vibe666]

i thought you wanted a main hard drive for your system?

USB & parallel are only external devices, and as far as i know you couldn't use one as your main HD anyway. not that you'd want to.

the speed would be terrible on USB and even slower as a parallel port drive.

a nice 60GB Maxtor ATA 100 drive (7200rpm) will do you fine.

[Imperion1]

The Buffer for a Maxtor 30G 7200rpm ATA100 and above is 2mb. I'm not sure on a 60G though.

[SEALTEAMTHREE]

The real difference between a 5400 and 7200 RPM drive is only a few milliseconds of seek time. On average, two drives of the same size and manufacture just one is 5400 and the other is 7200 have only 1.5 MS of seek time difference. Unless you can get your hands on a super-cheap 5400 RPM, go for the 7200. There is usually only a $15-20 difference between the two. Realistically, you won't be able to tell the difference between the two, even if one is right next to the other. There are other factors than drive RPM's when it comes to reading data: a ATA-66 @7200 RPM will read slower than a ATA-100 @5400 RPM, likewise a high speed drive won't crank the data off as quickly in a system with a slower processor or less RAM than a slow speed drive in a high speed system or with high amounts of RAM.