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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? |
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! |
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.) |
My personal favorite is the Spinpoint F3.
Also, Archer, shouldn't that be the Caviar Black? |
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I see endorsements of Western Digital and Samsung, the two manufacturers I was leaning toward to begin with, as opposed to Seagate or Hitachi. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Ids my bf build a desktop for game,he used this samsung hard drive,it works great
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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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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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