I want to upgrade my hard drive to

[cshajkur]

I want to upgrade my hard drive to a larger size and faster access to get better performance out my older system. I recently found a sale on hard drives which appear to be a good buy. Its a Seagate St118202LC, 18.2GB,SCSI, 10,000 RPM 4MB Buffer, Hard Drive for $16.00 found here:

http://www.softwareandstuff.com/hd_st118202lc.html

The size is fine for my use given the fact that I now have two smaller Hard Drives 10.3GB and 13.6GB respectively. Would the hard drive previously mention provide me with slightly better performance with a system with the following specs: Gateway G6-400MHz, 384MB Ram, CD-Rom/DVD, CDRW, Zip drives, with 10.3 and 13.6 GB hard drives, 56k modem, TV Tunner, STB Video tuner 10/100 Net card, Motorola Cable Lan modem.

Will this hard drive provide me with slightly better performance with the system I described? Any advice would be appreciated.

I realized that my system is old and it but it works fine

 

[wolluf]

You realise that drive is SCSI (not IDE) - so you'd need a SCSI interface too. If you're thinking of putting 98 on it, then should be a slight performance increase as drive will be faster than your current IDE ones (all things being equal!).

PS. I don't know if you need any special drivers for SCSI drives with 98 - but I'm sure someone here can tell you.

 

[sgtjwhite]

I have a SCSI card(3940) w/3 9gb 60 pin config. You have to make sure your SCSI card is for a 80 pin config. The reason it is on sale is the 80 pin config (somewhat rare). You might want to look at EIDE interface. I currently have 2 ide drv and 3 scsi drv

P.S. Make sure you have the correct scsi card for that drv!

Later...

 

[cshajkur]

Hey Guys,
Sorry I took so long to respond but I was caught in a hurricane and left in the dark for the last five days. Thanks for the response. I did not realize that a SCSI card was needed to run this hard drive. I don't have a spare PCI slot available. Besides I prefer to keep it simple. My current configuration is set up to accept 40 or 80 pin IDE cables. I will instead invest in the purchase of a 20 or 40GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive. How important is the HD buffer size?

 

[wolluf]

Not very on your system IMO (its too old to be able to take full advantage of newer drives)