I don't know anything about how good the drive is, but the price is a bit special, I think!
It's an 80GBte Seagate ST380020A, for £79.97 (inc VAT, but haven't checked to see about any carriage charges)
Speed - 5400RPM
Seek time - 8.9ms avg
Interface - Ultra ATA/100
http://www2.novatech.co.uk/NOVATECH/EWspec.html?c=SEG-U6800
I'd be deeply surprised if it wasn't fine for most editing task with DV cards, and at £1 per GByte, seems pretty decent value.
Bob C
or how about a 7200rpm for 75?
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=30616
yep, its an IBM, so for those not comfortable with big blue
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=27554
the 7200 Maxtor comes in at just on £90
Gordo
Blimey!
Scan's deal of the day today includes
IBM 120GXP drives (ATA100, 7200) - the 80Gb version costs 67UKP ex VAT (78.43 inc).
Nice drives.
http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/index.htm
Hi,
The dollar has dropped a little lately; this must help with hardware prices?
Jim Bird.
The only thing i would beware of is the guarantee??? I brought the same drive from both worldspan and Aria, the worldspan has 3 years the aria 1 year.They both died within 4 weeks of each other, worldspan are replacing one, the bin has the other!!!
Dominic
I bought the 60gb version of the Seagate drive that Bob mentioned above a few weeks back for the same price and it's proved to be ok, a little slower than I was expecting on Raptest but well within the recomended speed.
For £25 more you can get the WD800JB with 8MByte cache. It beats most 7,200 rpm drives (even some SCSI drives), is quiet and runs cool. See the review at: http://storagereview.com/
£105.75 incl. VAT (carriage free) from DabsDirect (£20 less than span.com). Looks like a winner to me. The 120GB model was highlighted in April's CV (Page 9).
Dave
Dear Bob,
How about a 120Gb Hard-drive for £100 !
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/k.asp?ck=1&r=1&action=info&s=ut&p=18435&AvdID=1&CatID=9&GrpID=1
Kind regards all.
quote:Originally posted by Stuart B-M:
Dear Bob,How about a 120Gb Hard-drive for [b]£100 !
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/k.asp?ck=1&r=1&action=info&s=ut&p=18435&AvdID=1&CatID=9 &GrpID=1Kind regards all.[/B]
just ordered one ( credit card has another dent in it )
will report it's usefullness when i get it and try it out.
Well the drive is fast ...... connected to a highpoint ata133 pci card with bios , this drive moves very fast .....
only weird thing is every 1/2hour to 1 hour interval , there is a wirring noise from it, not that it has caused any problems , just interesting sound to hear.
so far only 45 gb full of video files and data throughput still very high.
[This message has been edited by Gary MacKenzie (edited 23 July 2002).]
I received an email from Western Digital yesterday announcing the launch in July of a 200GByte/7200rpm drive.
No idea of pricing as yet.
Bob C
Stuart, Gary, this looks very good. I have a GXP120 80GB drive and it is very quick and silent. I like my Maxtors but they do sound like a chain saw when they are busy. I must raid the piggy bank and add some storage,
Cheers, JOVE
I guy here at work (who bought a DV camcorder and now wants to edit) is considering buying a 120Gb drive.
I told him that his mobo may not support it (it's a fairly recent Pent3 800M) but are there any OS issues with Win98SE supporting this kind of size ?
Adam
quote:Originally posted by buckers:
I guy here at work (who bought a DV camcorder and now wants to edit) is considering buying a 120Gb drive.I told him that his mobo may not support it (it's a fairly recent Pent3 800M) but are there any OS issues with Win98SE supporting this kind of size ?
Adam
it's more a motherboard bios problem, but many large drives come with software that 'lies' to the bios.
or buy a ata133 addon card with bios and that will be fast and support large drives.