Thread: What SATA HDD for Windows 7?

Quote: Originally Posted by gamesaregood Was wondering how much difference the upgrade would make when compared to what your coming from I would advise against the WD Caviar Blue 320GB 16MB, its an old drive now and although would be an improvement there is so much better out there.... why not just get the 500GB Samsung F3 if you don't need the space and want better value? Well the difference in the upgrade is a dual boot setup up so i...

Ok sounds good although tbh I can't really see why you will need to keep windows XP as well... unless you have some really old 16bit application which your looking to use? I've been very impressed so far by how compatible and easily everything has worked with windows 7 X64.

why not just use the XP mode under Windows 7. I used to keep a backup of the older OS simply because I was too lazy to back up the files and such but ended up simply copy all the files to the new HD and don't use the old one any more. I think it's because the new os has all I need and the driver and programs all works fine.

It'll be a while before that happens however when it does we should have some nice SSDs with lots of storage. Running a couple 1TB SSDs in raid 0 would be sweet.

Quote: Originally Posted by Anledai Well i've had a thought and i really can't be bothered to spend £60 on a 1TB 32MB, so i think i might saved myself £35 and just get a WD Caviar Blue 320GB 16MB. At the mo i have got Windows XP SP3 on a WD Caviar SE16 250GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB. Why do you ask? Sorry Anledai about getting to this so late. Had to take care of some family issues that arose over the past couple weeks. As for your...

Get a Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB and use the Seagate tool to shrink it to 300gb and you have a drive for half the price of the velo****tor, but just as fast and more space Andy

It'll be a while before that happens however when it does we should have some nice SSDs with lots of storage. Running a couple 1TB SSDs in raid 0 would be sweet.

Quote: Originally Posted by Anledai Well i've had a thought and i really can't be bothered to spend £60 on a 1TB 32MB, so i think i might saved myself £35 and just get a WD Caviar Blue 320GB 16MB. At the mo i have got Windows XP SP3 on a WD Caviar SE16 250GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB. Why do you ask? Sorry Anledai about getting to this so late. Had to take care of some family issues that arose over the past couple weeks. As for your...

why not just use the XP mode under Windows 7. I used to keep a backup of the older OS simply because I was too lazy to back up the files and such but ended up simply copy all the files to the new HD and don't use the old one any more. I think it's because the new os has all I need and the driver and programs all works fine.