Will this HD fit my computer?

I didin't quite understand what you meant by "Oh, and if you're into performance, ignore those pesky Raptors: http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship" Anyways... With the HDD your talking about on newegg.com work on my PC? If so, 640 gigs sounds pretty nice! Lol, it sure beats the heck out of my 160 gigs, but there has to be a catch.. Why is the 160 gig HDD so expensive then? I'd rather buy a 160 gig HDD thats fast than a 640 Gig that takes forever to search.

By performance, he means speed. The Seagate Cheetah 600GB 15000RPM SAS HDD is more than double the speed of the drive your getting. Those drives he was taking about are probably more than the one you're getting as well. 7200RPM is standard. 10000RPM is standard for servers. And 15000RPM is for people who want really fast servers or who like to show off.

What Chruser was saying is that if you pay $20 more, you could get something far larger. If the RPM on the drive is also 7200, then there is no difference in speed. However, the drive Chruser pointed out is SATA so you probably don't have any connection ports for it, or your system board doesn't support it.

As a general rule of thumb, be careful with new Seagate drives - after acquiring Maxtor, they dropped their more expensive manufacturing processes and adopted the cheaper Maxtor processes, which has lead to a massive decrease in quality. The entire range of 1.5TB drives is faulty because of the change in manufacturing processes.

Saying that, my terrabyte drive is OK, as are my two 250s (and my two 160s, but they're three years old), and all of them are Barracuda's.

As a general rule of thumb, be careful with new Seagate drives - after acquiring Maxtor, they dropped their more expensive manufacturing processes and adopted the cheaper Maxtor processes, which has lead to a massive decrease in quality. The entire range of 1.5TB drives is faulty because of the change in manufacturing processes. Saying that, my terrabyte drive is OK, as are my two 250s (and my two 160s, but they're three years old), and all of them are Barracuda's.

Is there another brand of HDD's you reccommend? I would like better quality over space. (i don't use that much space), and speed is nice of course. But, of course price is important too.

Personally, I'd still choose Seagate drives over the others, but if you want to look, then you won't go wrong with Hitachi or Western Digital.

Personally, I'd still choose Seagate drives over the others, but if you want to look, then you won't go wrong with Hitachi or Western Digital.

Ok! Great, because I had already ordered the Seagate Drive. From what some of the people say on the site(tigerdirect), it looks like a pretty fast, quiet drive. I hope it lives up to its expectations.

By performance, he means speed. The Seagate Cheetah 600GB 15000RPM SAS HDD is more than double the speed of the drive your getting. Those drives he was taking about are probably more than the one you're getting as well. 7200RPM is standard. 10000RPM is standard for servers. And 15000RPM is for people who want really fast servers or who like to show off. What Chruser was saying is that if you pay $20 more, you could get something far larger. If the RPM on the drive is also 7200, then there is no difference in speed. However, the drive Chruser pointed out is SATA so you probably don't have any connection ports for it, or your system board doesn't support it.

Aaw so it definetly can't fit on my computer :P anyways, i guess i'll be ordering the one from tigerdirect then. Thanks