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Fast HDDs nowadays?
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A Crucial C300 64gb SSD is about $100 which is the same price as any decent regular hard drive. Plus it just happens to be one of, if not the best SSD's on the market for the price.
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Get a 7200 RPM drive with a 666 GB platter or greater.
Here is a pretty fast drive in that category:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152244
This is a 666GB platter drive with 1 head.
Other options are large 7200 PRM drives like 2TB and 3TB are also fast (well fast for a spinning disk) if you short stroke them.
Here is a pretty fast drive in that category:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152244
This is a 666GB platter drive with 1 head.
Other options are large 7200 PRM drives like 2TB and 3TB are also fast (well fast for a spinning disk) if you short stroke them.
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I agree you can get SSDs for $100. If you want more capacity look at used Intel G2 SSDs.
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and for $100 you can get a 2T drive, great it is $100, but it is only 64G and for many just not enough
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Yes. I have 20+ WDC black drives at work and a few at home.
Yes. However 5400 RPM ones. I have a few Spinpoints at home.
I would get a single Hitachi 7K3000 drive of 2TB or 3TB. The latest hitachi drive is faster than the WDC black from last year. Although either of these will be significantly faster than your 320GB platter WD6400AAKS since they have platters that have 2 times the density of your 2008 drive.
What the hell are you talking about? For half that price you can get a 1TB HDD which not only be fast (for a HDD) but will leave you with plenty of room. And for $100 you can get some 2-3TB HDD if you really need a lot of space.
I have no idea what "decent" means to you but frankly your post makes you look like a troll or a blind SSD fanboy.
It has been said before, SSDs aren't for everyone, yet.
To the OP : Caviar Black/Blue or Spinpoints are great drives but the new Hitachi drives have the best platter density (afaik) so they are an even better option. I think the Hitachi 2TB series has (had?) a high failure rate but I'm not sure.
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WD10EALX 1TB Blue $50 Bucks with promo code EMCKDKC74.
Promo code expires at 11:59pm PT on 6/08/2011.
Short stroke the front, use the rest for space, and you're good to go.
Promo code expires at 11:59pm PT on 6/08/2011.
Short stroke the front, use the rest for space, and you're good to go.
just so that you are aware- the fastest mechanical hard drive will not saturate even a 3GB/s (sata2) connection, so hard drives that support SATA3 are more or less marketing gimics. there is almost no performance gained from it.
i have a few 1TB WD caviar black SATA3 drives, and the difference between those and a WD caviar black SATA2 drive is maybe a few latency points and less then 5% of transfer speed (which could be due to other variabilities, like where the data was on the disk).
you should not rule out a drive because it supports SATA3, but you should also not exclude SATA2 drives simply because they arent SATA3, because there is no realistic difference.
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That is a good point. We are only now seeing SATA hard drives that break the SATA1 barrier. The hitachi I linked to is one of these. It nets over 150MB/s reads in the outer tracks which is a little faster than SATA1 but in no way does SATA3 (6Gb/s) help a drive that can only read at 150MB/s.
what the fvck is your problem?
He said he wants a fast 6gb/s harddrive. You obviously didn't read his post. He never said anything about needing alot of storage space.
You sound like an idiot. You are obviously the one trolling. Since when does making a recommendation make someone a fanboy?
You don't even know what to recommend. Is it western digital, samsung, or hitachi? Make up your mind. You aren't sure about much are you?
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The Samsung 320GB F4 drives are decently fast. I am building a server with 4 of them in RAID 10 on a PERC 5i card with 1GB RAM. The setup is smoking fast and I can only imagine what 4 or 8 of them would do in RAID 0.
Because of the performance increase with the PERC 5i card, I am planning on getting a Perc 5i for the rig in my sig and running my WD blacks on it.
Because of the performance increase with the PERC 5i card, I am planning on getting a Perc 5i for the rig in my sig and running my WD blacks on it.
OP never made mention of specific storage space needs in his original post so you need to chill out. Nor are SSD's a matter of preference like you make them out to be. They are objectively superior in every way shape or form as a system drive, and for the vast majority of users out there, 40 GB and 64 GB models are not only affordable, but wholly adequate for their intended purpose (read: Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, Small Apps, 0-3 Games).
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