- 7200 RPM 2MB Cache
- IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6
Kept my 17 year old machine going!
03/22/2016
This review is from: Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80GB 7200 RPM 2MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Pros:
Lots of space for the computer I'm using it for. Very quiet.
Cons:
Had issues getting it set up, not really cons for the drive I believe, but see below.
Overall Review:
When the 30GB drive in my old Pentium III 550Mhz died, I took to Newegg to see if it was possible for find a new IDE drive as I'd like to keep my old gaming machine going. I was worried that 80GB would be too much for the computer to handle but for the price I took the gamble. I took a few weeks to finally get things going. One of the first issues is that programs like fdisk cannot partition this drive well, and installing Win98 or WinME or even XP results in an error saying not enough disk space. Even Lubuntu couldn't install on it. I had started to believe that the drive itself is faulty. But I tried again with Gparted. Now I have Win98SE installed on a single large partition, and although my main computer has TBs of space, seeing 80GB of space in Win98 had me racing to install ALL of my old software. My start menu is a mess but I love it.
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- Michael C.
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Verified Owner
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Owned For:
1 month to 1 year
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