help with new hd

im kinda a newbie so can u tell me if the 200gb is really 200gb or 20gb because the price ranges dontreally make sense.





for example: seagate barracuda 7200.7 sata 200gb 7200 rpm





if u could reply it would be helpful thanks.

A harddrive labeled 200GB will give you ~190GB of space to use and you can usually find one to buy for around ~$100.

i no that was a dumb question but i had to make sure thanks a lot.

um i was also wonering if it would be better to get two 200gb or 1 200gb and 1 lets say 70gb harddrive.



pros cons if there is any





thanks

Well if you decide to buy more than 1 drive.... Remember your computer is only as fast as your slowest IDE. Meaning if you buy a 200gb drive that is 7200 rpm, and a 70 gb drive that is 5400 rpm. the combind speed will only be 5400. Anyway hope it helps.

I say get two 200's ... more is always better IMO.

What are you going to be useing your computer for? I mean you better be doing something like graphics design that really needs alot of space to store. But if your doing other things like games and stuff 2 200gb HDD's will slow your gaming down.

Just out of curiosity ... How will having 2 200 GB HD's slow down a pc for gaming? I game quite a bit ... have 6 HD's and I'm wondering how it might slow my pc down?

You have 6 HDD's do you have them set in a RAID array at all?



The biggest reason I say this is that think about this haveing 2 200gb hard drives compared to 2 60gb hard drives with ram RPM and buffer speed. Your computer which has to look through all that space for whatever you are tring to do. The 2 200gb HDDs needs to look through all that space to find what it is it is looking for. Compare to the 2 60gb HDDs which has less space meaning it dosen't half to look through as much stuff to find what it is looking for.

Nope. Will probably never use RAID.



How does this pertain to gaming? I understand if your looking for data files, it may take longer to access.