Storage Solutions Urgent - please recommend a reliable 2 TB Drive
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aman.pitbull
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mitraark said:I bought a Seagate Green 5900RPM Drive for 4k [ all inclusive ] today , thanks for suggesting itIt is working quite well, copying from HDD to HDD at > 100MB/sec
Please post a screeny of you copying some big file on your Seagate LP @ 100MB/s I wanna see it.
ranjan2001
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I need to buy 2tb seagate but cant find any 7200rpm drives all they have is
seagate Barracuda Green SATA 6Gb/s 2TB (ST2000DL003) Internal Hard Drive
Seagate 2TB SATA 6GB/s 5900RPM 64MB CACHE
SATA 6Gb/s
RPM 5900 RPM
Cache 64 MB
how slow will these be in comparison to 7200 rpm 3gb/s 16mb cache drives?
I need it as my primary OS drive having win 7 x64
seagate Barracuda Green SATA 6Gb/s 2TB (ST2000DL003) Internal Hard Drive
Seagate 2TB SATA 6GB/s 5900RPM 64MB CACHE
SATA 6Gb/s
RPM 5900 RPM
Cache 64 MB
how slow will these be in comparison to 7200 rpm 3gb/s 16mb cache drives?
I need it as my primary OS drive having win 7 x64
vinayaga
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For all those looking for a the fastest HDD (typically 7200rpm) as their boot drive, I would suggest a alternative.
Get the cheapest 30gb SSD drive (kingston 30gb SSD was available for 3k in Prime) and use it as your boot drive for the main OS. Get the cheapest 2tb drive you can get for all your data. The faster 2tb drives run hotter (with the exception of a few drives like the Samsung F3) and heat is never good for the HDD life. Use the SSD for the boot and get blazing speeds, use the HDD for all data including games that you need to install on the system.
Get the cheapest 30gb SSD drive (kingston 30gb SSD was available for 3k in Prime) and use it as your boot drive for the main OS. Get the cheapest 2tb drive you can get for all your data. The faster 2tb drives run hotter (with the exception of a few drives like the Samsung F3) and heat is never good for the HDD life. Use the SSD for the boot and get blazing speeds, use the HDD for all data including games that you need to install on the system.
ranjan2001
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I use win 7 x64 & many software install both 32 & 64 bit installation in 2 program folders, my present boot partition 45gb & is almost filled up, specially the my documents folder, thus fitting in 30gb will not be easy for me & more over I have heard that SSD once have 50% data filled starts becoming slower bcoz they gain speed by spreading the read write data in blank area (not sure if thats true) In that the case then min I would need 80gb SSD.
ranjan2001
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Seagate is not available even now so I am left with only option of WD green but fear the high failure rate & long process time for RMA. The feedback from users are quite negative for WD green.
Just found one dealer
BHAGWATI COMPUTER & PERIPHERALS
305; Sahyog Building, 58; Nehru Place
New Delhi
26285564/26418623
having Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" selling for 8300/- now that's the double amount than wd green hdd, so I am now wondering what to buy looking at the cost difference. The big dilemma is that if the wd hdd fails the amount of data which needs to be backed up is huge & that will be a real problem if I have to recover 2TB data someday.
What do you suggest?
Just found one dealer
BHAGWATI COMPUTER & PERIPHERALS
305; Sahyog Building, 58; Nehru Place
New Delhi
26285564/26418623
having Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" selling for 8300/- now that's the double amount than wd green hdd, so I am now wondering what to buy looking at the cost difference. The big dilemma is that if the wd hdd fails the amount of data which needs to be backed up is huge & that will be a real problem if I have to recover 2TB data someday.
What do you suggest?
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