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donavannj October 6th, 2010 8:21 PM

Best Brand for Internal Hard Drives?
 
I'm in the market for an internal hard drive to replace my 85% full 500 GB drive, which is a two year old Samsung drive.

I'm in the market for something 1 TB or larger. I'm just wondering which drives/brands you'd recommend, whether it be based off of personal experience, the experiences of people/technicians you know, or based off of reviews you've read.

Does anyone have any brand recommendations?

Archer October 7th, 2010 4:52 AM

High Performance, you have 3 options.

Samsung Spinpoint F3 - Fast, cheap, but less warranty than alternatives
WD Black - Fastest, but noisiest and hottest. Best warranty
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - Slightly slower, but rather quiet and good warranty

Obviously all speed differences and noise/heat are really minimal, but there to take into account, nonetheless. If the Samsung warranty was better, it would be a clear winner. But, as you know, HDDs just have a tendency to fail out of the blue.

If this was portable HDDs, then I would say Seagate or Samsung. But it's not.

Good luck!

Gerri Shin October 7th, 2010 6:55 AM

I've had tremendous luck with Western Digital drives. I'v currently got 2 (1TB) Caviar Greens in a RAID1 set in my computer and a Caviar Blue in my laptop. all have faired well for as long as I've had them.
(though If you have multiple bays, I fully recommend an SSD for a boot/System drive and using the traditional drives for your files and other items.)

twocows October 7th, 2010 9:52 AM

My personal favorite is the Spinpoint F3.

Also, Archer, shouldn't that be the Caviar Black?

donavannj October 7th, 2010 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerri Shin (Post 6207252)
(though If you have multiple bays, I fully recommend an SSD for a boot/System drive and using the traditional drives for your files and other items.)

Financially I cannot afford to get both a 1 or 2 TB traditional drive and an SSD at the moment. Plus, the drive would have to be at least 500 GB in size as I'd be applying an image straight off of an external drive to simplify the process and not have to worry about losing all my bookmarks and such.

I see endorsements of Western Digital and Samsung, the two manufacturers I was leaning toward to begin with, as opposed to Seagate or Hitachi.

Archer October 7th, 2010 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerri Shin (Post 6207252)
I've had tremendous luck with Western Digital drives. I'v currently got 2 (1TB) Caviar Greens in a RAID1 set in my computer and a Caviar Blue in my laptop. all have faired well for as long as I've had them.
(though If you have multiple bays, I fully recommend an SSD for a boot/System drive and using the traditional drives for your files and other items.)

Yeah, I personally have a Black 1TB in my system. They're great, although I'd avoid the Greens like the plague unless it's STRICTLY storage. they're slow and they REALLY don't play nice under raid arrays.
Quote:

Originally Posted by twocows (Post 6207552)
My personal favorite is the Spinpoint F3.

Also, Archer, shouldn't that be the Caviar Black?

Why yes. Yes it should.
Quote:

Originally Posted by donavannj (Post 6207662)
Financially I cannot afford to get both a 1 or 2 TB traditional drive and an SSD at the moment. Plus, the drive would have to be at least 500 GB in size as I'd be applying an image straight off of an external drive to simplify the process and not have to worry about losing all my bookmarks and such.

I see endorsements of Western Digital and Samsung, the two manufacturers I was leaning toward to begin with, as opposed to Seagate or Hitachi.

Seagate's fine. Hitachi drives aren't too bad, I just love to hate them. Plus, they're not huge in the non-OEM market. Basically, you see tonnes of them in HPs, etc.

That said, and as much as you're going to hate me for it, you may be better off doing a fresh install. I don't know quite how long it's been, but no matter what you do, nothing cleans things up like a fresh install.

donavannj October 8th, 2010 8:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archer (Post 6209017)
That said, and as much as you're going to hate me for it, you may be better off doing a fresh install. I don't know quite how long it's been, but no matter what you do, nothing cleans things up like a fresh install.

I'd personally rather not have to use up one of my re-activations on my license, but I may have to because of the way my desktop is set up (Ubuntu 10 bootloader loads first, then the Windows 7 bootloader, and, the alternative to those two is XP).

twocows October 9th, 2010 2:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by donavannj (Post 6210915)
I'd personally rather not have to use up one of my re-activations on my license, but I may have to because of the way my desktop is set up (Ubuntu 10 bootloader loads first, then the Windows 7 bootloader, and, the alternative to those two is XP).

You can reactivate Windows as many times as you need to if you phone it in, provided it's on the same computer. It just won't automatically authenticate after the first few.

donavannj October 9th, 2010 7:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twocows (Post 6212421)
You can reactivate Windows as many times as you need to if you phone it in, provided it's on the same computer. It just won't automatically authenticate after the first few.

That call itself is a pain, however.

Archer October 9th, 2010 8:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by donavannj (Post 6213057)
That call itself is a pain, however.

Not really. You just do a phone activation and follow the prompts, talking to them if it doesn't work.

How many times to you intend to do such a reinstall? You still have the rights to all of your software, so you have a right to reactivate it.

Archer October 10th, 2010 7:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Haowakeorden (Post 6215470)
I've bought both Seagate and Western Digital hard drives, and none of them have failed on me yet. I also overheard a Best Buy employee say that the quality of Lacie hard drives was comparable to that of Seagate, but I've never had any experience with that company's products.

Yeah, but the Lacie controllers are slow as hell.

liketoys0000 October 14th, 2010 7:15 PM

Ids my bf build a desktop for game,he used this samsung hard drive,it works great

wwilson777 October 19th, 2010 6:36 AM

The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS.This drive packs in the bits for 2TB of capacity, but its price remains high, despite its competitive cost per gigabyte.
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evelpikachu November 15th, 2010 2:23 PM

samsungs are pretty decent the rest of them are similar and I buy on sale, 7200 rpm should pretty much be the standard now.


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