![]() In general I bet it would be the fastest desktop experience you can get with 2TB on a single drive (ignoring a very expensive SSD). I never quite convinced myself to buy one, but I agree the Seagate SSHD 2TB 7200rpm drive looks interesting for an "ultimate" WinXP build presuming you prefer a simple single drive setup. It seems to me this might be the best option for a new Windows XP hard drive. Seagate claims up to 5x faster load speeds (not sure about actual results but it must be an improvement) and since the NAND is handled internally to the drive XP doesn't even need to be aware of it, i.e. I just noticed the Seagate FireCuda series … /100804185a.pdf and they of course support SmartAlign, are 7200 RPM, have 64MB cache, come in 1 and 2TB sizes, inexpensive, and most importantly they are SSHDs with 8GB of NAND to boost performance. I love the Seagate drives because they have SmartAlign … n_for_af_4k.pdf so I just forget about the 4k sector size issue. ![]() That knocks any SSD off the list since XP doesn't support them natively. I want something below the 2TB maximum MBR partition for Windows XP and the best possible performance at a reasonable cost and no compatibility issues. So far all of the motherboards\systems I am currently looking at have Windows XP AHCI drivers so I started looking at hard drive choices. Nothing is set in stone yet except for the audio card and the graphics card which will be a Creative X-Fi Titanium PCI-e (SB0880) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285. I am slowly building my new Windows XP box and this one will be a permanent build.
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