Storage Solutions Help choose 500GB HDD

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i thnk i will go with seagate 500gb 7200.12 16mb. 32mb buffer on the WD wont really show much of a difference. what say?
 
i am also planning to buy ...but worried now....

which brand and size will give better performance???

1TB or 750gb or 640gb or a 500gb????

plz suggest me a good one...
 
tufel said:
Will be uisng it for a gaming pc and wud also store loads of movies(LARGE FILES)

WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB OR

SEAGATE 7200.12 500GB 16MB...IS A 32MB AVAILABLE?
REAGRDS.
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Go for a 1TB. I did the same mistake and now I am running out of HDD space. Price difference is about 2K. But no headaches in future. Even I am constantly downloading and installing games.
 
has anyone got any problems with the seagate 7200.12 series, like the drive not being detected at startup,etc.
 
I have had such problems with 2 or 3 7200.12s. Put it down to shipping or personal mishandling as haven't heard of any such problems online. RMAed those.
 
Like i said, go with WD 500GB 32MB --> 2.8K
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Does the BLUE come with 32MB buffer ?? I saw in the WD site that only GREEN and BLACK have 32MB cache. Someone please clarify as I am also gonna buy one. :huh:
 
sabby said:
Does the BLUE come with 32MB buffer ?? I saw in the WD site that only GREEN and BLACK have 32MB cache. Someone please clarify as I am also gonna buy one. :huh:
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only 500GB black has 32mb buffer..other have 16 only:D
 
@sabby

No.it's not available ..i tried for 640gb black..which is also not available...

but 1TB black is available....
 
500 GB 7200.12 drive have 2600/- in ameerpet, hyderabad. might be in CTC it would come around 2500/- + or -

1TB GB 7200.12 have 4.4k in ameerpet, hyderabad. in CTC might be around 4.x, depends.

Seagate is good rather than, WDC.

i have been a seagate FAN since their 2 GB, 4.3 GB HDD in earlier age.

only one or 2 times i had break down.

ya previously 7200.11 has issues. those are fixed with firmware issues and works perfectly for last 6 months above, 24 x 7..

good luck..
 
tufel said:
has anyone got any problems with the seagate 7200.12 series, like the drive not being detected at startup,etc.
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Had picked up 4 of them about 3 months back from SMC Delhi. Paid about 2850 a piece.
2 of them are configured in RAID 0. Had no issues with any of them. They are quite and a good replacement of the WD 160s that I had earlier.
 
1. One of the best 7200 rpm with high speeds

2. Huge performance difference from 7200.10

3. Single Platter , Slim Profile , Cheap , Excellent Service

4.No idiotic product lineup like WD
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Here are RAIDO results which beats SSDS

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let people use green drives.......
 
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