Here's my situation, I have 2 320 GB 3.0GB/s Seagate Barracuda SATA2 HDD's installed in my main rig. Unfortunately I was stupid enough to not have done my research prior to picking them up as if I did I would have known to stay away from the 7200.11 firmware versions as I've read there not exactly reliable.
Well, one of these two drives was a system drive and it has now failed completely. There have been signs of this becoming an issues for many weeks now with registry errors, driver issues and most recently, software related issues/bugs.
I'm quite sure this is not the work of a Trojan or some other type of nefarious or rogue program.
I'm now faced with the task of replacing this drive but I'll be replacing it with 2 separate drives as I was stupid enough to have some games on it too such as my entire Steam platform.
My questions are:
- Any recommendations on a good system drive (C:\)? I want this drive to be a smaller drive and I DO NOT want to partition it, it will ONLY be a dedicated system drive.
- What is a good reliable HDD for gaming?
- Do I need to take into account aiming for a larger Cache 16MB - 32MB?
As mentioned above I'm a gamer but my rig is not exactly current so I'm squeezing it a bit to get all I can from it. My specs are as follows:
- Intel Conroe E6600 2.4 Dual Core CPU (overclocked to 2.7)
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS @ 640MB DDR2
- 2 x 1 GB Kingston DDR2
- Antec NEO HE 550 Watt PSU (504 Watt nominal)
- Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS
- Windows XP SP3
Incidentally, I live in New Westminster BC (Canada) so I'll be shopping either
NCIX or
Atic.
Also, I'm obviously a bit leery of Seagate now for obvious reasons so unless you're very confident in your selection, please do not recommend them.
I'm hoping to pick up a new drive in the next few days because working off this old backup will drive me closer to insanity with each passing moment.
Thanks for your help.
Ken
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