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Quantam Firebell Harddisk is slow. which hard disk is better and fast.

1. My Hard disk is slow, I have 733 Mhz system but i am not satisfied with the speed. I have afraid i may loose if hard disk stops working.

2. I want to get a new Harddisk Round about 6 GB and i installed windows and other related software in this primary harddisk. keep this slow hard disk as secondary. well this will improve the system speed or not. ( The previous hdd is not worse but i am not satisfied.

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sda100

-- coral47, the ATA rating is only transfer speed from the drive's buffer to memory. A 6Gb drive is that old, it physically won't even get near 33Mb/s. It's the physical speed of the drive that may be holding things up.

Steve :)

pgm554

If his system supports a 733 PIII ,then it will support up to a 128 GB drive (AT /33/66 or above).

You can't buy a new 6 GB drive any more,only refurb.
Drives are so cheap these days (80GB new@$49.00) ,why would you even bother with a 6 GB?
Get the biggest you can afford,and forget about the 6gb drive.

sda100: Basically true, the numbers are the maximum burst rate.
But they (ATA-66+ drives) also have faster read/write, seek, and substained transfer rates. Which makes them faster than PIO or ATA-33 drives.
I have an ATA-66 10gig Western Digital drive with W2K-SP4 on an AMD 1000 Athlon mobo, that is reasonably perky.

Thank you much. : )