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Hard Drives
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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
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
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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?
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!
Heres some comparison thingy you might be interested in; http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-overtakes-a-bang,1730.html
Apparently, with the Samsung having 3 platters, they run longer due to less wear on their technical insidey bits.
/science.
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.
screw that. i want it to be good and fast.
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.
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
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#
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!
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.)
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/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
When I eventually upgrade my 400gb... I'm thinking about getting this.