SATA Hard Drive

2 Questions:

1) I want to buy a SATA HD, and I will most likely buy it OEM. It is SATA II (3.0Gb/sec). I need to buy an SATA cable, yet all of the cables I can find online say they are for SATA 150 hard drives. Where can I get cables that will transfer at my 3.0 Gb/sec rate?

2) There is a $20 difference between an 8 MB Cache and 16 MB Cache. Is the 16 MB worth the extra $20? Is it that big of a difference?

I'm mostly going to have movies and MP3s on this drive, it won't be my boot drive. Do I even need to worry about the cache size?


THANK!

 

The size of the cache in relation to performance depends on the drive.

On some units it can make a difference, whereas on others not.

In my opinion, one of the best drives currently is the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 with 16MB cache.

Very fast and quiet drives at a reasonable price.

The fastest drives are ones that use Native Command Queing (NCQ).

As far as SATA cable, you can get SATA 2 cables just about everywhere.

Do a google or froogle.

 

Alrighty thanks..

some people are telling that any SATA cable will do SATA II speeds... so im confused about that. oh well, I'll find out