Pick a 2TB hard drive (internal) for me.

SeanW

(Sorry for posting two threads when I probably could have put both questions into one, but) I'm about to build a new PC and could use some advice on what hard drive to use.

I intend to use a 2GB hard drive to store large amounts of videos, pictures & other documents, songs and whatnot, but for me, now at least, the decision seems to be a slightly more complicated and troubling than in the past.

To be frank, in the days of old when I needed a new internal hard drive, I just bought whatever and it would usually work. Maxtors, WDs, whatever. In one case a long time ago I just walked into a shop and asked for whatever they had to sell (at time an 80GB hard drive for upgrade).

That was, until last lear, the last time I bought a HDD, it was a Western Digital 750GB Green Power.

And it was ****awful. After installing it and testing it out with some old games, those games (that worked fine on everything else) were brought to their knees by extreme issues with latency. To this day, I still thank my lucky stars that I didn't put Windows or the swapfile on it What a POS. :mad:

Needless to say that though I'm still using it, for now, it's been relegated to storage ONLY, as I have enough SSDs for my programs, so I rarely notice how crappy it is. When replaced, it will be relegated to an External enclosure with a "ONLY USE FOR STORAGE" warning label.

Needless also to say, that I am a little bit wary about buying anything with "Green" in the name, for fear that I will be treated to a repeat performance. I am, however, also noticing that all the Green HDs are WAY cheaper, and might save me some money in electricity costs. So I'm not sure what to do

I've posted two links, Kompletts' list of HDs and Dabs' list of HDDs 15.TB and greater, I hope someone can advise me
Thanks in advance;
http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/catalog/ZKB_01COM/11_HDD/07_INTHD35/default.aspx

http://www.dabs.ie/category/components-and-storage,hard-drives,internal-hard-drives/11154-52770000

Chris Hansen

I know i know its only 1TB but still:


http://www.ibood.com/ie/en/

SeanW

Chris Hansen wrote: »

I know i know its only 1TB but still:

Thanks, but that's not quite what I was after: I'm interested in internal hard drives, and something that could run software in a pinch ... unlike my current WD.

Fluffy88

The general recommendation around here for a HDD is the Samsung SpinPoint as it's the top HDD at the moment. But I haven't seen one that is 2TB in size, 1TB is the max I have seen. The Only SpinPoints above that I have seen are Eco drives so they will be slower to save some electricity.

So if you can support it an option might be, get two of them and maybe even put them in RAID0 to speed them up further.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-samsung-hd103sj-spinpoint-f3-sata-3gb-s-7200rpm-32mb-cache-89ms-ncq

Or if your looking for a 2TB strictly, make sure the HDD you get is NOT a Green one as that is what you have at the minute. Any of them should do really.
http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_01COM/11_HDD/07_INTHD35/productdetails/80001620/Hitachi_2TB_3_5_SATA_600_7200rpm_64MB/HDS723020BLA642/default.aspx
This one is a SATA 6Gb/s so if it's only plugged into a SATA 3Gb/s port I might not go as fast as what it might display on packaging, but the difference(if any) will be minimal.

Unregistered.

Fluffy88 wrote: »

The general recommendation around here for a HDD is the Samsung SpinPoint as it's the top HDD at the moment. But I haven't seen one that is 2TB in size, 1TB is the max I have seen. The Only SpinPoints above that I have seen are Eco drives so they will be slower to save some electricity.

So if you can support it an option might be, get two of them and maybe even put them in RAID0 to speed them up further.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-samsung-hd103sj-spinpoint-f3-sata-3gb-s-7200rpm-32mb-cache-89ms-ncq

Or if your looking for a 2TB strictly, make sure the HDD you get is NOT a Green one as that is what you have at the minute. Any of them should do really.
http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_01COM/11_HDD/07_INTHD35/productdetails/80001620/Hitachi_2TB_3_5_SATA_600_7200rpm_64MB/HDS723020BLA642/default.aspx
This one is a SATA 6Gb/s so if it's only plugged into a SATA 3Gb/s port I might not go as fast as what it might display on packaging, but the difference(if any) will be minimal.

Sure it won't go as fast as 3Gb/s anyway, so not to worry OP.

Serephucus

Samsung Spinpoint F3 (if you can find them). If not, F4s. I have two F3s myself, and they're faster than my 1TB drives, even though the 2TB ones are 5400RPM.

Moon54

I'd recommend the Samsung F4 EcoGreen 2TB (5400RPM) for €65 now on Amazon, with free delivery;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-EcoGreen-5400RPM-SATA-II-Internal/dp/B0042SGDVG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1297702644&sr=8-2

I have several of these.
They're very quiet, they don't get too hot, only using 6 watts in operation.

Btw, that Western Digital 2TB Green drive is also about €65 on Amazon;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Caviar-3-5-inch-Internal/dp/B002ZCXK0I/ref=pd_cp_computers_2

the untitled user

I've an Samsung Spinpoint f4 ecogreen for storage, great drive, but I would not want to be running software from it. For one thing it spins down a lot more than a normal HDD to save energy, increasing latency.

How much software do you have (in GB, not including OS)? I'd buy two drives, and f3 or quivalent 7200rpm for boot and software and then a larger 5400 rpm for storage.