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Recommendation on 1tb internal drive?

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Incramus

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I could use some help in picking out a secondary storage drive for my system, I'm looking for something in the 750gb-1tb range.

The problem I'm having is that I'm not sure what the most important factor is (after size) RPM? Cache? Interface?

Here's the list that I'm looking at:

http://www.microcenter.com/search/s...4294945772+127&Ns=P_RetailPrice&Nso=Ascending


It doesn't have to be from MC, I'm just planing to hit them up soon for a few other things.

Thanks in advance!!
 
WD Caviar Black drives are some of the best performers, along with the Samsung drives. If speed isn't an issue you you, you can save some money and get a Caviar Green drive (they operate at a lower RPM)
 
I do not recommend a Caviar black for a secondary storage drive. It would be much better to have a slower, more power efficient drive for storage.

The best bang/buck hard drives I've found is when Staples.com puts the 1.5TB or 2TB drives on sale and you can use a $25 off coupon with it. I had my coworker purchase a 1.5TB external drive for $60.

I pulled the drive from the casing and it's sitting in the HTPC I built for her.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
WD Caviar Black drives are some of the best performers, along with the Samsung drives. If speed isn't an issue you you, you can save some money and get a Caviar Green drive (they operate at a lower RPM)
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I was wondering what the "green" drive was all about, are they just slower RPM's?

I guess the storage will mostly be used for steam/games so will speed matter?
 
I would go for a Hitachi 5Kxxx series drive, I have had really good luck with them, and they use the latest and greatest tech.
 
WD Caviar Black drives are some of the best performers
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I am not sure that is the case any more. Or at least their drives with 500GB platters are slower than Segate and Hitachi drives with 1TB platters.
 
Is there a brand to stay away from? or is there and stats on failure rates?
 
Incramus said:
I was wondering what the "green" drive was all about, are they just slower RPM's?

I guess the storage will mostly be used for steam/games so will speed matter?
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Yeah, green drives spin at 5400RPM instead of 7200RPM.
 
if you're using the secondary storage for steam games I would get a 7k.1000d hitachi drive. or the black. I would not get a green drive because I would actually like to load my games quickly.

however, a black or hitachi drive are going to be more expensive than the greens. the performance difference will be about 25%. as for energy savings, it will be like $10 for an entire year if you were using the drives the whole time and never idling them.
 
gjs278 said:
if you're using the secondary storage for steam games I would get a 7k.1000d hitachi drive. or the black. I would not get a green drive because I would actually like to load my games quickly.

however, a black or hitachi drive are going to be more expensive than the greens. the performance difference will be about 25%. as for energy savings, it will be like $10 for an entire year if you were using the drives the whole time and never idling them.
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That's kinda where I was leaning, but a friend just told me that with Win 7 if you have games on a secondary storage drive I could just drag the game folder over to my SSD drive and play it without having to install the game and if that's the case that's pretty sweet.
 
Incramus said:
That's kinda where I was leaning, but a friend just told me that with Win 7 if you have games on a secondary storage drive I could just drag the game folder over to my SSD drive and play it without having to install the game and if that's the case that's pretty sweet.
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Not always the case. Sometimes that can work and sometimes it doesn't. It depends on the game/program and how much it embeds into the system.
 
I use mklink /D tp create symbolic links. Tricks windows into putting stuff all over the place. Can have iTunes installed one system SSD. Save the library to standard platter drive. Then use mklink to have the music part of itunes come from another SSD.

mklink /D "C:\Program Files\The Folder You Want Windows To Think Its Accessing" "D:\The Folder Windows Will Actually Be Pulling Data From"
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1. You have to run command prompt as administrator.
2. Before you hit enter on the mklink command, delete the "folder windows thinks its accessing". So for example if you wanted your Downloads folder to actually pull from D:\ but still appear to be in the user directory you would type:

mklink /D "C:\Users\hardforum\Downloads" "D:\Downloads"
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But before you hit enter, delete the Downloads folder at C:\Users\hardforum\Downloads. When you hit enter it will recreate the folder as a link.
 
I have been a huge fan of the Samsung F3 1TB and 500gb drives. They are super fast and have been reliable for me.
 
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