• Want to buy a new HDD
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I'd like to buy a new HDD but I don't know which. I have the choice between this (the cheapest one). [img]http://puu.sh/2KFbZ.png[/img]
Seagate has worked really well for me, until I got a SSD.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;40488005]Seagate has worked really well for me, until I got a SSD.[/QUOTE] Don't you still have it for storage?
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40488341]Don't you still have it for storage?[/QUOTE] Not really. That HDD was used by my brother and I, but now my brother uses the HDD, and I use the SSD, so we can do our own things.
I can't really choose between the first one and the second one, people say that Western Digital has quality but other people are saying that Seagate is the one to get.
I'd get WD. Never had any issue with one. Seagate on the other hand, well they have improved since their earlier drives. But I still don't have confidence in them, that's just my opinion though
7200.14 best desktop-grade disks this generation
My brother got a Toshiba hard drive and it broke in the same week he received it, sent it back and got it replaced with another one [they wouldn't change it to a different brand] but its been fine so far, its about 2 or 3 month old now
The Seagate ST1000DM003 is probably the fastest mechanical drive (throughput wise) you can get. I have two of them in RAID0 and I get read speeds of ~560 MB/s and write speeds of ~440 MB/s with like 12-22 ms latency. WD would be my next pick, but you should go with the black drives if you want performance. Stay clear of Hitachi drives. They're the old IBM "Deathstar" line and little has changed since Hitachi took them over. They still have alarming failure rates and the RMA process is ridiculous. Toshiba drives are also junk and good luck getting an RMA from their hideously broken RMA system.
Got the seagate today, here are the benchmarks. [img]http://puu.sh/2MCxg.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Zombiespeed;40524472]Got the seagate today, here are the benchmarks. [img]http://puu.sh/2MCxg.png[/img][/QUOTE] do you have AHCI on?
I don't know, don't think so. Atleast it is three times faster than my other 2 HDD's, they were both at 50mb's write and read. Edit : Searched in the BIOS but couldn't find AHCI anywhere.
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