what to get what to get

[ninja fetus]

My hard drive pooped out on me for no apparent reason. Western Digital. So Im going to need to get a new one. What is a great hard drive brand that is also cheap. I gotta work for my new hdd washing cars and being the lazy bum i am working isnt my thing.

 

[Big B]

Western Digital is usually pretty good, but even they have bad drives. I'd go with Maxtor or Seagate if WD doesn't float yer boat.

 

[ninja fetus]

thanks B

 

[Sniper]

doesnt anyone like Samsung?

 

[Waffle]

thought they made dishwashers...

 

[extreme4377]

If you want native SATA, go with Seagate, otherwise I love WDs. Maxtors are sweet drives too

EDIT: fixed a typo

 

[ninja fetus]

I ended up Picking a WD 120GiG. cmon, 120 gigs for 40 USD! And i also pickedup a shnazzy antec smartpower 350watt power supply...

 

[Big B]

Antec is a good choice

 

[ninja fetus]

it was funny, i was going to buy an aspire power supply, it was black aluminum with an acrylic cover and two LED fans...UV cable sleeves and UV molex..but the guy was like, dude dont get this it sucks balls. its 500watts peak, and it has really unstable rails. the antec is true 350watt, and it blows the sh*# off this aspire

 

[ninja fetus]

ive noticed a tremendous speed increase, is this normal?

 

[harrack52]

It's normal in the event that before you changed your psu, your system was slower than it should.

 

[ninja fetus]

well...you wanna see a pic of it? LOL!

 

[ninja fetus]

wait mayeb not, brother took the digicam and went far away, maybe in a few days.

 

[Big B]

Nothing a bat to the kneecaps can't fix. :p


j/k

Unless I don't need that type of power, I won't use anything less than 300W, usually 350W. I do run my file server off a 250W, but then it's usually not doing too much other than sitting there. The next time I build a new box, I plan to buy a new PSU, since I'll be looking at a system overhaul then.

 

[ninja fetus]

your duron is soundin a little outdated there, i mean thats pretty bad coming from me.