Storage Solutions Suggest me a HDD drive for loading OS

[thenvk]

I am upgrading my rig. Now need a drive which concentrates on performance.
Already has a WD green EADS 1 TB drive. How good is the green drive to load OS.
I am currently looking at WD 1TB black.This will be used for Loading multiple OS

One most imp criteria is drive should be reliable. Can spend up to 6k.

 

[lucky_chouhan]

buy any 160GB with 10,000 RPM for better performance.

Single 60 GB is suff for any operating system.

 

[stalker]

I am upgrading my rig. Now need a drive which concentrates on performance.

Already has a WD green EADS 1 TB drive. How good is the green drive to load OS.

I am currently looking at WD 1TB black.This will be used for Loading multiple OS

One most imp criteria is drive should be reliable. Can spend up to 6k.

Get a Raptor. afaik the 150 gigger veloci is for 8k odd and 74gigger is 7k odd.

from Amarbir

 

[Gannu]

Already has a WD green EADS 1 TB drive. How good is the green drive to load OS.

The Caviar Green is preferred as a dump drive for mass storage than as an OS drive since the speeds are on the lower side. The performance might take a hit esp. on areas such as loading the OS, games, data transfer and the likes.

The Caviar Black OTOH performs as good as a Seagate 7200.12 drive with faster read/write rates and the 32mb cache. Not to mention the better reliability offered by WD drives although this could vary from experiences. This's a viable option as an OS drive + backup.

 

[axeman]

Velociraptor as OD drive, or build a raid 5 array and use a slice of that (ofc ur h/w should support). At a minimum, raid 1 for OS drive.

 

[thenvk]

Thanks all, for all the quick inputs. Right now,I have only 6k budget and also need some space.

How good is the WD black 1TB?

 

[ishashank]

^^

it is the best 1TB available in the market today... go for it.

 

[piyush7243]

WD Black 1 TB is the best around due to seagate reliability issues

 

[Eazy]

 

[thenvk]

Eazy...
Did u post any thing? I cant see it

 

[titana]

OCZ Vertex SSD

 

[Eazy]

Eazy...

Did u post any thing? I cant see it

YES - it is a chart of HDD comparisons of system boot times from TechReport

If you cannot see the chart here is a link for it.....http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1671/sysboot.jpg

 

[sato1986]

One most imp criteria is drive should be reliable. Can spend up to 6k.

i thought the velociraptor is VERY UNRELIABLE, am i wrong?

Wud suggest Caviar Black only.

 

[TechHead]

^Why yes, yes you are wrong!

Velociraptors are decently reliable, and a good choice, budget permitting.

 

[thenvk]

Thank you all... Will go with the WD black 1TB drive....

 

[Gannu]

i thought the velociraptor is VERY UNRELIABLE, am i wrong?

You certainly are! IIRC you did say the same thing on someone else's thread when he asked for suggestions concerning a hard drive.

Could you point us to the source which reffered to the unreliability factor of the velociraptors?

 

[Vandal]

Good choice on the WD Black, I'm getting one myself.

 

[echelon]

Eazy...
Did u post any thing? I cant see it

The Cavair SE 16 (640GB)(the 1st drive posted in the visual by Easy) is the WD6400 AAKS.

Get 2 of these in AID 0 if you want pure performance. If you are from mumbai, you can get one for Rs. 3400 from Prime ABGB.

Beats the old raptors hands down.