Best HD for Windows 7

[cwolf78]

I am looking for a 1TB (or so) capacity hard drive that will work great for Windows 7 Home. Any good deals out there ?

Thanks !

 

[OldMX]

Samsung F3 or WD 640 Black?

 

[drescherjm]

I would get the 1 TB black with 2 500GB platters instead of the 2 platter 640GB black.

 

[cwolf78]

I ended up going with the Hitachi Deskstar

 

[ToddW2]

Deathstar

 

[Red Falcon]

I ended up going with the Hitachi Deskstar

lol, good luck with that

 

[Hop-Scotch]

Ignore them, the Hitachi's work great. The WD would have been a better choice for an OS drive though.

 

[Red Falcon]

Ignore them, the Hitachi's work great. The WD would have been a better choice for an OS drive though.

Yes it would have, by a lot. I've used enough Hitachi drives to know the majority of them are crap and die much much sooner than any other HDD manufacturer. WD is a much better brand overall, especially for desktop OS drives.

 

[bastage]

I've used enough Hitachi drives to know the majority of them are crap and die much much sooner than any other HDD manufacturer.

I would take a hitachi over seagate any day of the week.. but samsung is definitly top imho

 

[Red Falcon]

I would take a hitachi over seagate any day of the week.. but samsung is definitly top imho

Ok, word on that!

Seagate is TOTAL crap. I've yet to have one Seagate HDD not die in a horrible way. I've gone through hundreds, yes, HUNDREDS of the Seagate drives (work and other builds) that have all failed, overheated, broke apart, and melted. The Cheetahs seem to be ok, though the desktop/laptop drives are just bad.

Yeah, Samsung and WD are great OS drives.

 

[Kulith]

I would take a hitachi over seagate any day of the week.. but samsung is definitly top imho

this++;

 

[E4g1e]

I ended up going with the Hitachi Deskstar

Do note that the Hitachi Deskstar is slower than all of the other 7200 rpm hard drives with 500GB platters.

 

[drescherjm]

Ok, word on that!

Seagate is TOTAL crap. I've yet to have one Seagate HDD not die in a horrible way. I've gone through hundreds, yes, HUNDREDS of the Seagate drives (work and other builds) that have all failed, overheated, broke apart, and melted. The Cheetahs seem to be ok, though the desktop/laptop drives are just bad.

Yeah, Samsung and WD are great OS drives.

I have had 5 drives fail this year but that is 5 out of 50 to 100 Seagates that spin 24/7/365 every day at work. None have overheated, melted or broke apart.

 

[Red Falcon]

I have had 5 drives fail this year but that is 5 out of 50 to 100 Seagates that spin 24/7/365 every day at work. None have overheated, melted or broke apart.

I've had all but 3 Seagate drives break in some form or another. btw, this is over the last ten years or so, but most of them failed in the first year and lasted at longest 2 years.

I'm glad you have good working Seagate drives.

btw, the ones that melted, yeah, those were fun to clean up. I should have taken some pics.