I was thinking about purchasing a new internal hard drive soon, but I was wondering if you all would have any suggestions for me. HDs really aren't my thing, not too knowledgeable on them.
I was looking at 1 TB+ drives for gaming purposes (I have a [i]shitload[/i] of games) because my current drive is just about full and I'm having to juggle around which ones I have installed and which ones I have to get rid of. I was just wondering which drives you all would recommend for loading and running games off of? What speeds should I be looking at that'll work out well for what I want to do with it?
Newegg is currently running a couple deals on some TB drives, like Hitachi and Western Digital, couple Seagates as well... are these good brands to go after?
Personally, I'd avoid any Hitachi. I can never get past their Deathstar drives. If I had to pick, I'd almost always go with WD.
Western Digital. Hitachi sucks.
Would you guys have any drives you'd specifically choose then?
What about a Samsung Spinpoint F3. It's only a TB though so it's up to you.
Samsung drives are good. Never had a problem with them. Using the old SpinPoint F1 1TB at the moment.
I recommend getting a WD 1TB Black edition.
[QUOTE=JJ Webby;21368230]What about a Samsung Spinpoint F3. It's only a TB though so it's up to you.[/QUOTE]
This. Its the fastest consumer HDD you can get.
[QUOTE=Milky;21372733]This. Its the fastest consumer HDD you can get.[/QUOTE]
velociraptors?
I own the Samsung F3, it's a good fast drive.
Only problem is the seek noise is very loud, though can be quietened dramatically by activating the acoustic management.
[QUOTE=Milky;21372733]This. Its the fastest consumer HDD you can get.[/QUOTE]
I'd have to disagree =P
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[QUOTE=rampageturke;21374785]velociraptors?[/QUOTE]
He should add economical also I have one I get about 128 read and 128 write for sequential and it feels pretty dam fast. :3:
Samsung, Western Digital, and the occasional Seagate are all good drives.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21377010]Samsung, Western Digital, and the occasional Seagate are all good drives.[/QUOTE]
Seagate makes good stuff but every body makes a bad drive some times and the 7200.11 was a bad time for seagate but if you get the 7200.12 then they are awesome.
[QUOTE=sbradford26;21377086]Seagate makes good stuff but every body makes a bad drive some times and the 7200.11 was a bad time for seagate but if you get the 7200.12 then they are awesome.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, unfortunately the 7200.11s are still the most common Seagate drives
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21377427]Yeah, unfortunately the 7200.11s are still the most common Seagate drives[/QUOTE]
Sadly
Samsung, Hitachi (improved the Deskstar line in November 2009), Seagate(occasional bad drive) and Western Digital are all good HDD choices.
Although, I would personally buy a Samsung Spinpoint. Best value for quality and size.
Samsung, Seagate, and WD are the only brands I would buy.
Seagate Barracuda 1TBs are crazy fast. ~130MB/s read and ~120MB/s write.
I got a 80GB Hitachi in my PC. 5 years on it so far. lol.
Thanks guys. Looks like it's gonna be a Samsung, seem to be getting a lot of recommendations.
Get a Western Digital Black. Suckgate, Deathstar, and Swansong drives are nothing but trouble because they have funny negative names associated with them
Western Digital.
Seagate. (I have a 500gb and it's great).
Samsung.
There's my top 3
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in no particluar order.
I have the Sea Gate 7200.12 and it is a really good drive. Good value too.
[QUOTE=rampageturke;21374785]velociraptors?[/QUOTE]
Actually according to reviews its faster than velociraptors in most tests too.
[QUOTE=Demache;21379777]I got a 80GB Hitachi in my PC. 5 years on it so far. lol.[/QUOTE]
Now check your read/write speeds on it. They're probably 20 and 20.
Just don't get a Maxtor drive, I had a 300 GB IDE Maxtor drive fail within three weeks of owning it.
I lost an LFS installation to that drive, I was unhappy.
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