Hard Drives

Pedro Amorim

I want to buy a terabyte for my pc. Not a external drive, but just a drive that i can mount inside the pc.

which one of these two is best?

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?group=72&type=61&subtype=63&model_cd=249&ppmi=1155


http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=559

glynnsmith

I have a Samsung Spinpoint 1TB. It's a great hard drive. Works fine for me

My initial point of picking that over the WD Caviar would be price, but after a quick bit of digging, the WD drive seems to come out cheaper, as well as more "eco friendly", if that means anything to you.

Other than that, the drives seem to have the exact same spec.

Brand loyalty, mebbe?

Ryan Clark

The Samsung drive is faster.

The Caviar Green is quieter, and uses very little power. But it's not as fast.

In either case, if you're storing anything important then I urge you to consider mirroring the drive. A terabyte is a lot of data to lose in a drive failure!

Junkie_XL

My 150GB WD RaptorX is starting to get full and I've been thinking about buying an additional drive as well. I liked how mine was 10,000RPM. Is this important? What is the speed of that Samsung?

Yozora

I was planning on buying that samsung one myself, but I didnt do much research.

Heres some comparison thingy you might be interested in; http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-overtakes-a-bang,1730.html

glynnsmith

Junkie_XL wrote: »

My 150GB WD RaptorX is starting to get full and I've been thinking about buying an additional drive as well. I liked how mine was 10,000RPM. Is this important? What is the speed of that Samsung?

The Samsung spins at 7,200RPM. There is quite a bit of difference in read and write times between 10,000RPM and 7,200RPM, but the price difference is pretty sizeable, too.

Apparently, with the Samsung having 3 platters, they run longer due to less wear on their technical insidey bits.

/science.

Blaizer

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/3-5-hard-drive-charts/File-Writing-Performance,662.html

Samsung's perfomance is great, but dunno about the warranty and stability. I have heard too many bad things about samsung so i ended buying a WD caviar Black (5 years, great perfomance and very solid).

I recommend you to see a lot of hd tach results and reviews.

Both hds are around 94 euro here, so it depends of your need, perfomance or low energy cost. BTW the samsumg is a pretty old hd, 2007.

Pedro Amorim

i want a good harddrive. i dont care if it's eco friendly
screw that. i want it to be good and fast.

glynnsmith

Get 2 500GB drives and raid them suckers up!

Pedro Amorim

lololol
doesnt that mean if one drive screwsup, then all the drives are screwd up?

i mean, the data. since they get spread in the 2 drives.

glynnsmith

Yeah That's the downside of having awesome speed and jealous friends.

Well....You could buy 4 500GB drives and use the RAID mode that both stripes and copies the data, so you have speed and dataloss protection. But perhaps we've gone a bit too far with this idea now

Pedro Amorim

lolol, yeah.
i think im gonna go for that smasung one. i think
this one: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?group=72&type=61&subtype=63&model_cd=249&ppmi=1155#

Ryan Clark

If you really want performance then check out the Intel X25-m.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167005

It's only 80 Gigs, but it outperforms pretty much everything else.

You can put your OS and apps on there, and get an ordinary hard drive for archival stuff.

CounterSeal

I don't think solid state drives justify their cost at the moment, in my opinion. Give it a few more years. They are damn sweet for laptops though.

glynnsmith

Ryan Clark wrote: »

If you really want performance then check out the Intel X25-m.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167005

It's only 80 Gigs, but it outperforms pretty much everything else.

You can put your OS and apps on there, and get an ordinary hard drive for archival stuff.

Buy 2. Raid em up!

Ryan Clark

Last week, Intel slashed their prices by 33%. For me, that was the line.

I wasn't willing to pay $600, but it seems worthwhile at $369.

(I'm on a laptop, though, so RAID wasn't an option.)

Ryan Clark

glynnsmith wrote: »

Buy 2. Raid em up!

You might not get much benefit from raiding them. A single X25 already reads at 250MBps, which is near the limit for a Sata II controller. But its write performance is only 80, so raid would help there.


edit: Nevermind, apparently it helps a lot... these folks got 396MBps read and 131MBps write.

http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-SSDs-RAID-0-A-Case-Study-In-Speed-Take-2/

Talbot

Check this out!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337

When I eventually upgrade my 400gb... I'm thinking about getting this.