New HDD

Digy123

Hey guys My friend loves the PC i made for him
But he needs a bit more storage but is only willing to spend 80- on a hdd
I seen this and was wondering if they are any good,Any know common failures?
http://www2.hardwareversand.de/7200+rpm/58235/Seagate+Barracuda+Spinpoint+HD103SJ+1TB+SATA+II.article

Monotype

Good hard drive. One of the faster ones and fairly reliable. Only thing is that it only has a 1 year warranty.

You'd have to look at enterprise drives for longer warranty. Western Digital have 2 years for theirs (black edition still 5 year, same as Samsung enterprise, as far as I know).

Digy123

Monotype wrote: »

Good hard drive. One of the faster ones and fairly reliable. Only thing is that it only has a 1 year warranty.

You'd have to look at enterprise drives for longer warranty. Western Digital have 2 years for theirs (black edition still 5 year, same as Samsung enterprise, as far as I know).

Any of those for around 80?

Monotype

I don't see the F3 enterprise (HE103SJ) on HWV. Maybe they don't sell them anymore, or it's been re-branded as a Seagate.

The WD blacks aren't that cheap at all. The 500GB are under the €80, but the 1TB is just over the €100 mark. 5 year warranty.
http://www1.hardwareversand.de/7200+RPM/37168/WD+Caviar+Black+1TB+SATA+3+8%2C9cm(3%2C5).article

The WD blue 1TB is ~€82. 2 year warranty. I think the Samsung has a slight edge in sequential speed, but the WD is a little better in random access.
http://www1.hardwareversand.de/7200+RPM/39658/WD+Caviar+Blue+1TB+SATA+3+6Gb+s.article

Procrastastudy

Stay away from the WD Caviar Green bloody things give me nothing but bother!

Monotype

Can you elaborate?

Procrastastudy

They dont have some of the commands needed for RAID - TLER iirc. Very slow speeds when in RAID. Alright when they are on their own I guess.

Monotype

I was under the impression that most consumer level hard drives no longer supported TLER. But, yeah, green drives is certainly not where you'd be looking at if you were considering RAID.