New Hard Drives ?

Hi I've been looking for a new hard drive for use with windows 7 when it arrives,
I'm looking for boot drive just for install files for games and OS so as fast as possible but I don't really want to spend a lot of money... I would love to buy a velociraptor 150 GB but I don't have £130 to spend I was wondering what the fastest of the lower costing drives are ? if any one can point me in the right direction it would be good.
Thx a lot Feak

My System:- Asus Crosshair, AMD64 X2 6000+, OCZ 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 800MHz,
GeForce GTX 260,Seagate ST3500630AS, DVD-RW

 

What is your budget and how much space do you need?

I would say a 500 GB SATA 7200rpm is good for somebody on a budget.

 

Hi
thanks for the fast reply, I'm looking for the below £60 mark if possible... and looking only for like 150GB.
I have a 500GB drive for storage, I'm just looking for a fast boot and programs drive ideally WD VelociRaptor something really fast but don't have that cash so I want cheep speed and I'm wondering if there is any thing about ?
Thx feak

 

Well you are going to have to go 7200 RPM has you are on a tight budget. Nothing is as fast as that for the price.

You can get a 1TB 7200 RPM hard drive for your price range.

EDIT:

Didn't see you had a hard drive. If you want something fast I would say to save up and SSD drive prices will go down in time.

 

You maybe able to get a Solid State Drive (SSD) just purely for the OS, games and apps (32GB for example) for around 60 pounds. You will have to shop around a bit as there are huge differences in them at the moment. If you could list some UK PC suppliers I maybe able to help. They decent ones run circles around SATA/PATA HDD's.

 

So using a currency converter we can note that 60 pounds=$95.06USD at this current point in time:

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=60&From=GBP&To=USD&image.x=45&image.y=7&image=Submit

For ~$95USD we can note there are several choices for SSD at 32GB sizes:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Sort=4&Nav=|c:4147|&Recs=30

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&SubCategory=636&N=2010150636

Let's say that an OS is about 10GB, that leaves 22GB for games/apps which is plenty and DATA all on the storage HDD. You can search for SSD shootouts and so far it seems Intel has the fastest.

 

Well a bit more digging and I have noted that Intel X25-M Solid State Drive keeps topping reviews. It is available in an 80GB size and you have Intel outlets (can probably go "direct to public") in the UK:

http://www.intel.com/buy/components/ssd/embedded.htm?sSKU=SSDSA2MH080G1C5&fmlid=1

http://www.intel.com/intel/location/uk.htm

Source from the manufacturer, cut out the middle man and save money.

 

Hi, thinking you are all right about going SSD. was hoping to get something fast n cheep so I don't have to reformat for windows 7. I really don't wanna just install over the top of this install, I definitely need a fresh install its just going to take years to re download all my stuff. I don't know if 32gb would be any where near enough tho my game files come to over 100 GB, lol although I don't need most of those on my boot drive most are mmorpg's I log into just to say hi... well my Christmas list just got started my GF will be so happy thanks lot for the input all.

 

Only keep your current files on the SSD, erase and set-up any game files as you go. Let's face it we can only play 2-3 games at a time.