Internal 1TB drives which one to buy?

Pyro Boy

I'm looking to buy a 1TB internal HHD and i've found 3 withhin my price range the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ,Samsung SpinPoint F1 and Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black. (here is a link to them http://tinyurl.com/5af8wt ) Has anyone had experience with any of these drives and could they comment on 1) the noise 2) performance 3) reliabilty . Any other HHD that would be suitable plese let me know

PaddyTheNth

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article843-page1.html
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article803-page1.html
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article804-page1.html - not yours but an alternative.

Inquitus

Komplett are doing the Samsung for 99 yoyos atm

PogMoThoin

Hardwareversand.de for €91 (but will cost €30 per order shipping, only good value if ordering more than 1 item)

I have 2 of those Samsung f1's, very fast (90MB/s, see below) and completely silent (barely audible, although I use it for storage, not OS)

Pyro Boy

Thanks everyone. I'm going for the Samsung f1 spinpoint one from dabs ( http://tinyurl.com/5sud9e ) only €95.46 and €12.60 for postage which is the cheapest place that I could find it at.

311

Pyro Boy wrote: »

Thanks everyone. I'm going for the Samsung f1 spinpoint one from dabs ( http://tinyurl.com/5sud9e ) only €95.46 and €12.60 for postage which is the cheapest place that I could find it at.

Dabs use standard mail ,in case you didn't know.

Pyro Boy

311 wrote: »

Dabs use standard mail ,in case you didn't know.

What does that mean? I'm not covered if it goes missing? Are other online stores different like kompelt.
Ok now that i'm getting this hhd where should i put my os on the 1tb drive or on the 150gb drive? Which would be better?

PogMoThoin

Pyro Boy wrote: »

What does that mean?

Snail mail as opposed to courier

enda1

Pyro Boy wrote: »

What does that mean? I'm not covered if it goes missing? Are other online stores different like kompelt.
Ok now that i'm getting this hhd where should i put my os on the 1tb drive or on the 150gb drive? Which would be better?

Everything else equal, on the 150Gb.
Nicer to keep your media on its own drive plus I guess its newer and so should last longer. You data is more valuable than your OS!

Pyro Boy

ok i was thinking in terms of speed would it be better to have the os and programmes on the 150gb and then all other stuff on the 1tb. So when the computer is accessing data it isn't slowing the os down.

Newaglish

I just bought one of these and tried to install it (FAIL)

Do I need to buy additional cables of some sort? I have plenty of room in my tower but can't figure out for the life of me where the thing is supposed to plug into

Jonathan

Newaglish wrote: »

I just bought one of these and tried to install it (FAIL)

Do I need to buy additional cables of some sort? I have plenty of room in my tower but can't figure out for the life of me where the thing is supposed to plug into

You will need an sata cable to connect the hd to the mobo.

Newaglish

Cheers for the info - do you know whereabouts in Dublin City Centre I could buy one? Also, are there different types; what should I be looking for?

Thanks

Shiny

You can get them in Maplin/Peats near/on Parnell street.

You are looking for this:


Any mabe a molex to sata power converter if you PSU doesn't have any:

MooseJam

I have the samsung and heartily recommend, if I need another it will be a samsumg

tech

for a few extra quid i would go for a brand the western digital have a 5 year warranty

slave1

sammy in my gaming, surfing/work and HT PC's, never a bother

Pyro Boy

When I was installing my 1TB drive i got a sata cable from a friend and it works great the only problem I have is that is noticeable smaller in width size than the one that was already in my computer (end connections fit ok). Why is there this size difference ? Is there a reduction in bandwidth ? (how can i test this?) The cable is orange if that helps