XeeN
04-06-2007, 05:47 AM
Hi guys. I've been doing a lot of reading on this forum & other sites' forums for hard drive reviews, but have found few recently updated within the last few months.
On StorageReview the synthetic benchmarks show the Hitachi drives doing very well, but I haven't found a single praise report for those drives on any site it seems. I am looking to buy at least one large HD, probably 500GB.
Noise & heat aren't issues for me. I do most of my work with very large files in Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, and other graphic design programs with a bit of video editing as well.
Unless I'm missing something, SAS & SCS320 drives are so expensive for less storage that the increased input/output is over my budget.
For 500GB models, I've read that the newest WDs are good for reliability, that the Seagates have perpendicular recording helping them but have had reliability issues, and nothing about Hitachis, which seem to lead the way on some benchmarks (synthetic).
From all my reading it seems like single drives and not a RAID array is what I should shoot for, and I have to have backup so I'm probably going to get a long sata cable and place a 500GB in an enclosure for regular backup (I don't think I'll do a mirrored RAID array since I have multiple HDs to backup).
The new 1TB Hitachi drive looks awesome, and I'd love it, but it seems like it won't be in stock anywhere for a while. Is this true?
This is all for my workstation, which I do not game on right now simply because I don't have the time to anymore. Currently I have a 74GB Raptor and 300GB Maxtor that have been great.
Any input on the Hitachi drives? At this point I'm aiming at the 500GB WDs but if there's something I should wait a month for, I will wait.
Thanks for any input. The main reason I'm posting at all is that I haven't seen any forums with conclusive reviews from users, and I trust this forum the most.
On StorageReview the synthetic benchmarks show the Hitachi drives doing very well, but I haven't found a single praise report for those drives on any site it seems. I am looking to buy at least one large HD, probably 500GB.
Noise & heat aren't issues for me. I do most of my work with very large files in Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, and other graphic design programs with a bit of video editing as well.
Unless I'm missing something, SAS & SCS320 drives are so expensive for less storage that the increased input/output is over my budget.
For 500GB models, I've read that the newest WDs are good for reliability, that the Seagates have perpendicular recording helping them but have had reliability issues, and nothing about Hitachis, which seem to lead the way on some benchmarks (synthetic).
From all my reading it seems like single drives and not a RAID array is what I should shoot for, and I have to have backup so I'm probably going to get a long sata cable and place a 500GB in an enclosure for regular backup (I don't think I'll do a mirrored RAID array since I have multiple HDs to backup).
The new 1TB Hitachi drive looks awesome, and I'd love it, but it seems like it won't be in stock anywhere for a while. Is this true?
This is all for my workstation, which I do not game on right now simply because I don't have the time to anymore. Currently I have a 74GB Raptor and 300GB Maxtor that have been great.
Any input on the Hitachi drives? At this point I'm aiming at the 500GB WDs but if there's something I should wait a month for, I will wait.
Thanks for any input. The main reason I'm posting at all is that I haven't seen any forums with conclusive reviews from users, and I trust this forum the most.