Another Hard Drive...

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FatManSam

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Well, i've pretty much run out of space on my hard drive (Western Digital Blue 500gb) and its time to buy another hard drive.

I've just been looking on www.storagereview.com and found that the western digital black is their top recommended hard drive for SATA II. I will get the 500gb version, more than enough to last me i think! I'm planning to a windows re-install anyway but i have so many movies, music etc (not worried about re-installing games) that of course i want to keep them. How would i go about making the Blue hard drive my media storage drive (Seeming as its the slower one)? Making the black one the one with the OS is easy enough, just wondering the about the practicality/logistics of actually doing it. The other thing is do you guys reckon my PSU will be ok with the WD Black? It looks like quite a power Hungary HD.

The PSE i'm using is a Corsair 620 Watt Modular.

Cheers guys, and happy belated valentines ;P
 
Providing you aren't having any speed issues, i would just clone the old drive to the new and then transfer personal data to the older drive, use the old drive as a storage drive.
 
FatManSam said:
One other thing ive just noticed looking at the specs for the WD Black (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=100) is that the cache between the 500gb and the 640gb version is 32mb and 64mb respectivley. I honestly don't know exactly what cache means entirely, would be grateful if someone could explain the difference :)
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It all depends on the drive you get. There are two different 640gb drives with different caches.

WD6401AALS has 32mb cache SATA 2 drive
WD6402AAEX has 64 mb cache SATA 3 drive

The higher the cache, the more data the drive can hold for faster access to. You won't notice much of a difference between the 2 at all.
 
Ah got you. Didn't realize it was the SATA III 640 that just had the 64mb cache. Think i'll stick to the original plan of sticking in the 500gb black HDD. Thanks for the help John ;)
 
HDD cashe is kinda like a staging area for stored blocks of data. If say 10 blocks were in cashe and the system said "ok, gimme blocks 1-2-5 & 9"(not knowing for sure it needs them all), then it's readily available.
 
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