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Old 01-06-2006, 12:09 PM   #1
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Im building a new system and was looking at what hard drive to buy and found a relatively cheap and high rated seagate on newegg

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Old 01-06-2006, 12:28 PM   #2
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Seagate make great quality drives. You should have no problems with that one.

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Those components look good so far. What about a case, PSU, optical drives, etc.?
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case is a coolermaster centurion, umm optical drives are coming off this old rig since im making this into a pc for my mom I have a sony something or the other dvd burner and 2 liteon drives as well.
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Old 01-07-2006, 05:42 PM   #5
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ehhh... 4 dollar difference you can get a 250GB WD Caviar 16mb cache, SATA 3.0gb :P It works fine, using it right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144701
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Old 01-08-2006, 09:31 AM   #6
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Im building a new system and was looking at what hard drive to buy and found a relatively cheap and high rated seagate on newegg
That's a very good hard drive...5 year warranty too.

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Old 01-08-2006, 01:23 PM   #7
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Can't wait for the parts to arrive on Tuesday (hopefully), but I have faith in UPS
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