What is the best hdd to get right now?

[rustynail925]

What is the best hdd to get right now?

criteria: durability, life span, fast performance

 

[tech savvy]

SSD's(solid state drives).

 

[johnb35]

An SSD. SSD's are a lot faster than normal hard drives with a better chance of them lasting longer than a normal hard drive as they have no moving parts.

 

[rustynail925]

no i mean for storage hdd

 

[johnb35]

Most users are saying samsung F3 or WD caviar black.

 

[spynoodle]

Most users are saying samsung F3 or WD caviar black.

+1. I have a 1tb Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ, and it's crazy fast. Still going strong after around a year of use, although you never know what the future holds. According to a lot of people, Samsung drives are very reliable. WD drives are also very good, although I've grown a bit cautious about Seagate. They've gone from offering a 5 year warranty to a 3 year warranty to a 2 year warranty. I would trust their SV35 drives, though, which still have 5 year warranties. WD offers a 3 year warranty on their mainstream drives, but a 5 year warranty on their enterprise and Caviar Black drives. Samsung offers a 3 year warranty on their mainstream drives as well, and a 5 year warranty on their Spinpoint F3R (not F3) drives. I would highly recommend the Spinpoint F3R if you don't mind paying a bit more for top-notch reliability.

Good luck!

 

[2048Megabytes]

Take a look at this hard disk drive. It looks reliable and has a lot of cache and a 5 year warranty:

Western Digital Caviar Black 750 gigabyte 7200 RPM Serial ATA Hard Drive - $60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136794

 

[lubo4444]

Take a look at this hard disk drive. It looks reliable and has a lot of cache and a 5 year warranty:

Western Digital Caviar Black 750 gigabyte 7200 RPM Serial ATA Hard Drive - $60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136794

I have this one. You wont be disappointed. Pretty fast and the boot time is fast too.

 

[rustynail925]

Thanks ill look into samsun f3 and wd black caviar

guys is it safe to store an external hdd inside a vault for a month?
I have a lacie 1tb external hdd

 

[johnb35]

As long as it don't get hot. Or have any magnets near by.

 

[rustynail925]

thanks.. what should i use to cover my in hdd? is a plastic ok? or just leave it as it is?

 

[rustynail925]

also what is the safest free space capacity to avoid hdd damage?
like a 500gb hdd (100gb free space?)
1tb hdd (180gb free space?)

 

[claptonman]

Maybe an electrostatic bag around it. And I think the rule of thumb is 15% of your total space. But I would never want to get even near that.

 

[rustynail925]

something like a tool or screw driver or some metal is ok right.. as long its not magnetic

 

[spynoodle]

something like a tool or screw driver or some metal is ok right.. as long its not magnetic

I believe so. Another note that I didn't mention: a lot of the WD Caviar Black drives are slower than the Spinpoint F3 drives because they have less dense platters. This means that the drive takes longer to track through the data. Out of the WD Caviar Black drives, I would really only buy the 6GB/s ones. The transfer speed really doesn't matter, but it indicates that they're the newer drives with larger platters, as opposed to the older drives with smaller platters. I probably would've gotten one of them over the Spinpoint if my motherboard (Asus P5N7A-VM) didn't have problems with them. IIRC, all of the Spinpoint F3 drives have large platters. You really can't go wrong either way, although that 750gb WD drive is a really nice deal for a 5 year warranty, and it has the larger platters.