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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: kwfine on December 02, 2006, 11:33:57 PM

Title: same capacity, but of different price
Post by: kwfine on December 02, 2006, 11:33:57 PM

In a window shopping, I saw some HDDs with same capacity, brandname, rpm,
but they are of different prices.

1. Maxtor IEEE1394,7200rpm, 300GB: US$ 200
2. Maxtor Serial ATA,7200rpm, 300GB: US$ 70
3. Maxtor UDMA100, 7200, 300GB: US$ 97

Could someone tell me what makes the differences in the price?

The second item seems very resonable. Should I take it?

Title: Re: same capacity, but of different price
Post by: 2k_dummy on December 03, 2006, 05:08:15 AM

1. Requires firewire connection
2. Requires SATA connection and power connector
3. Standard IDE drive, should work in any machine

Title: Re: same capacity, but of different price
Post by: patio on December 03, 2006, 10:17:34 AM

If your MBoard supports it i would take what's behind Door # 2...

Title: Re: same capacity, but of different price
Post by: kwfine on December 04, 2006, 01:27:43 AM

Quote

1. Requires firewire connection
2. Requires SATA connection and power connector
3. Standard IDE drive, should work in any machine

Which has faster data transmission rate: USB 2.0 or firewire ?

Title: Re: same capacity, but of different price
Post by: GX1_Man on December 04, 2006, 03:46:10 AM

USB 2 is much more common these days and is as fast.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/articles/pcnotes.htm