advice on hard drive + memory

8 Apr 2005 1:13 PM

Christo

i basically want some advice on two products

Crucial Ballistix PC4000 DDR Memory

and

Wwestern Digital Raptor 10k RPM SATA HDD 74GB

i have read some bad reviews about the WD hard drives, saying that they pack
in after a few months and start crunching etc.

anyone any experience with these drives when they aren't being used in a
RAID of any type

as for the Crucial Ballistix Memory, i have every faith it is going to be
top quality and work great but does anyone have any experience with it?

does it do what it is meant to and is it better than buying standard RAM?

Cheers

Christo

8 Apr 2005 2:21 PM

Veritech

not sure about the HDD, i know maxtor got a problem, but i've heard good
things about WD, and i build all my new systems with em(used to be maxtor
kid, still got two drives now, running fine i might add). but the raptor is
like the gem of their consumer range so it would suprise me if it goes a
wiry

as for the memory, unless your overclocking, or benchmark crazy, ram is ram,
whether is cheap or pricey with gold plated heat spreaders, it does the same
job, and with modern DDR400+ the differences are tiny, save the cash and
just buy more of it
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"Christo" <chris@ no spamming juststuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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>i basically want some advice on two products
>
> Crucial Ballistix PC4000 DDR Memory
>
> and
>
> Wwestern Digital Raptor 10k RPM SATA HDD 74GB
>
> i have read some bad reviews about the WD hard drives, saying that they
> pack in after a few months and start crunching etc.
>
> anyone any experience with these drives when they aren't being used in a
> RAID of any type
>
> as for the Crucial Ballistix Memory, i have every faith it is going to be
> top quality and work great but does anyone have any experience with it?
>
> does it do what it is meant to and is it better than buying standard RAM?
>
> Cheers
>
> Christo
>

8 Apr 2005 5:18 PM

S.Heenan

Christo wrote:
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> i basically want some advice on two products
>
> Crucial Ballistix PC4000 DDR Memory
>
> and
>
> Wwestern Digital Raptor 10k RPM SATA HDD 74GB
>
> i have read some bad reviews about the WD hard drives, saying that
> they pack in after a few months and start crunching etc.
>
> anyone any experience with these drives when they aren't being used
> in a RAID of any type
>
> as for the Crucial Ballistix Memory, i have every faith it is going
> to be top quality and work great but does anyone have any experience
> with it?
> does it do what it is meant to and is it better than buying standard
> RAM?

Do you plan to overclock the RAM past 200MHz ? If not, standard Crucial
PC3200 is fine.

As for the WD Raptors, they are fast, especially when striped on a hardware
controller. They can fail as suddenly as any other hard drive. Get in the
habit of making frequent backups or risk losing the whole shebang.