PC Peripherals URGENT system upgradation - major changes to be implemented

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sunandoghosh

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Respected nerds, techs, geeks and dear fellow members,

It has been a while since i am able to be again able to post here as my job has really kept me extremely extremely busy in last two weeks...the coming week is a bit relaxed...and so i am here on net and forums...

I was intending to purchase:

1. A hard disk say 80 GB or 120 GB (can be internal or external)
2. Additional RAM for my computer
3. A pen drive / flash drive

Now as my computer and technical knowledge is very very limited (as i am a hardcore finance guy), my best and only recourse are wonderful forums like the one where i am posting right now. Its really great to have advice and suggestion of knowledgeable people here who do not have any self interest and are very helping in nature. So again I am daring to ask a few queries (infact more than few) and again hope that u people will really really help me out as u have always helped me in the past.
a. I want a very reliable hard disk which offers good speed and minimum should be 80 GB but preferably 120 GB...
Can anyone please suggest which comapny's hard disk is best in India for desktop....????
b. I would love to have external / portable hard disk with size as mentioned above but if cost is too much then will go for internal one...
Does anyone have any idea about what would be the cost of external / portable hard disk of say 80 gb or 120 gb???
c. what are advantages / disadvantages of external hard disk apart from being portable???
d. can i have two hard disk at the same time on my desktop PC...where with one harddisk (presently) i do everything except certain very high, critical job for which i am purchasing second hard disk????

do i need to buy a separate PC if i wish to have one more hard disk...???

e. which company's RAM is best ???
I am having currently having 1 chip of 512 MB and another of 256 MB i.e. total of 768 MB...
f. Do we have RAM chip of 1 GB size also available and approximate cost ????
g. What pen drive size is affordable and which company's pen drive is best ????
I know certainly that I have asked too too many questions but then I most humbly rqeuest to plz plz come forward and give ur valuable / advice / opinion as I WILL BE BASING MY ENTIRE DECISION BASED ON REPLIED HERE....

Thanks for taking time to read this long post and possibly taking time to reply and sharing ur valuable wisdom...its truly appreciated....

Best regards,

sunando

sunandoghosh at rediffmail dot com
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My current desktop system configuration:

I am giving my current desktop system configuration which may possibly better enable you to advice / suggest me to best of ur ability...(if i miss anything plz do let me know)

Company Name Intel Corporation
Motherboard Name Intel Bay Field D865GBF
Bus Type DDR SDRAM
RAM Slots 4 DIMM
Motherboard Chipset i865G
Physical Memory Total 750 MB
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Motherboard Name Intel Bay Field D865GBF (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)
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a. I want a very reliable hard disk which offers good speed and minimum should be 80 GB but preferably 120 GB...
Can anyone please suggest which comapny's hard disk is best in India for desktop....????

Ans:- Segate now comes with 5Yrs Warranty

b. I would love to have external / portable hard disk with size as mentioned above but if cost is too much then will go for internal one...
Ans:- Go for a USB Ide Adapter or HDD Case its a USB to PATA HDD Connector
A HDD Case comes for Rs1.5K dont know which brand.
But this will allow you to make any of ur normal PATA HDD External

Does anyone have any idea about what would be the cost of external / portable hard disk of say 80 gb or 120 gb???
Ans:- Costly like apprx 10K , go for HDD Case its cheap

c. what are advantages / disadvantages of external hard disk apart from being portable???
Ans:- Never used it so cant comment

d. can i have two hard disk at the same time on my desktop PC...where with one harddisk (presently) i do everything except certain very high, critical job for which i am purchasing second hard disk????
Ans:- Why not , you can have

do i need to buy a separate PC if i wish to have one more hard disk...???
Ans:- No

e. which company's RAM is best ???
I am having currently having 1 chip of 512 MB and another of 256 MB i.e. total of 768 MB...
Hynix is the best budget solution avaialble in India
But only Orignal D43 Chips which are hard to find as many fake ones are floating
in the market.
Corsair is also availble here its gr8 but cosltly
Best in the world are avaialble abroad OCZ,GSkill,Giel,Patriot,Corsair.

f. Do we have RAM chip of 1 GB size also available and approximate cost ????
Ans:- Dont know , but might be available havent checked it myself

g. What pen drive size is affordable and which company's pen drive is best ????
Ans:- Cant Comment , as i have never used it
 
Usb Ide connector/Hdd case is for Rs. 750. Connect your internal ide hdd to it and use the usb cable for transfering data. Speed is slow bcoz of the usb.

Transcaned 128 mb pen drive Rs 950, 512 mb Rs 1500
 
i agree for seagate hard disk as well.. whether they are the best manufacturer or not is debatable but you cant beat their warranty services here in india
 
Performance wise I would say Toshiba and WD Caviars are good, but I would stick with Seagate for their superb services.
RAM as Kingrool mentioned get Transcend not Hynix, I came to know from my dealer nearly 100% of all the Hynix RAM's are fake. Also Transcend has 3 yrs warranty while Hynix just has 1 yr. RAM's tend to fail a lot so the xtra warranty is worth the price.
 
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