Storage Solutions Best Price for 500GB?

[G@d of w@r]

Hola guyz, how r u all?
Ive not been to lamington rd since long time and i crave for more space.. i want to buy 500GB or more SATA drive my budget is 5K and i can stretch it a little. Can some1 help me in getting the best price?? :huh:

 

[nukeu666]

afaik, you get a 400gb for ~4.7k

 

[Deepak]

yep, iirc 500gb costs around 7.5k these days

 

[Saiyan]

for 5k u can get a 400 gig from seagate.

 

[gauravt]

seagate 7200.10 500 gb will cost u rs. 6750/- in mumbai

 

[G@d of w@r]

thanks guys. but i shall wait for 500gb hdd to come down to around 5500.. wish i can buy it soon.

 

[Deepak]

hmmm i dont think u'll have to wait more then 3 months, as soon as the 1TB HDD gets in India, prices will go down for all the rest of models

 

[Pankaj]

anybody knows what r the prices for 750 gb is??? heard it is the fastest drive around:huh:

 

[gauravt]

price of 750 gb is 14.6K, asked 3 weeks back, must hv dropped now

 

[whatsinaname]

seagate 7200.10 500 gb will cost u rs. 6750/- in mumbai

Don't two 250Gbs SATAs cost 3.1k*2 = 6.2k?
Or am I mistaken?

 

[thexfactor]

Don't two 250Gbs SATAs cost 3.1k*2 = 6.2k?
Or am I mistaken?

Sadly that's not how it works

 

[amritsingh87]

in this case - wouldnt a dual hardrive setup be better ?

logically... should be something like dual channel RAM - please correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[thexfactor]

in this case - wouldnt a dual hardrive setup be better ?

logically... should be something like dual channel RAM - please correct me if i'm wrong.

You mean RAID them ? ... it would be better but then you risk losing the data in case of a crash , also double the heat and power consumption

 

[amritsingh87]

... so if i connect two hardrives in two of the sata ports on my sysem...do they qualify as raid?

 

[Striker10]

... so if i connect two hardrives in two of the sata ports on my sysem...do they qualify as raid?

nopes .. your motherboard has to have a raid chip first of all.

 

[thexfactor]

... so if i connect two hardrives in two of the sata ports on my sysem...do they qualify as raid?

naah ... you got to set it up in bios and install the raid drivers

read here for a start ... RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Striker10]

naah ... you got to set it up in bios and install the raid drivers

read here for a start ... RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

his motherboard doesn't have RAID right?

 

[Hardware_freak]

Well can any one tell if i setup raid 0 then will it improve my gaming experience & will it help in booting,transfer etc.

 

[nukeu666]

it will help your sustained transfer speeds but hardly noticible in things like booting, gaming

 

[Eazy]

Yesterday I got a price from Prime ABGB of 6600/- for a 500 GB.