Lookin' for new Hard Drive

Heku

Heku

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Hey everyone, now for a month my computer has been whining about me having low disk space on my hard drive (and i mean under 1gb, as best i've only had 4mb free space, but then CCleaner cleaned away +2gb) , well i am not really surprised of it since my hard drive is only 80gb, and old as hell. i do have 2 external hard drives that are in use whole the time, but i think i really should get a new hard drive!
any good and cheap ones? you see my specs in signature, max price ~150e (if possible a little less). my ext.hard drives are 1 & 2 TB, but they are starting to get full too, i've been cleaning up Local Disk (C:) with CCleaner, and i've tried finding shiat i don't use, but its hard to get more free space!

Greetz, Heku
 
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Western Digital, Seagate and Samsung(made by Seagate) should be your only choices in drives. Just pick a size that you won't run out of space.
 
well, found a 1tb black one for 94e (with taxes, and 77e w/o taxes...).. and the black one seems to be more for gaming, as description said.. is it worth it's price?

JHM, are you a hdd tester? i don't think it's normal to buy 10 hdd's at once :D
 
I really don't think that you should have an issue with a Caviar Blue. As long as you buy it from a site that ships their drives with plenty of packing material, you shouldn't receive a drive with bad sectors. Yes, some drives have manufacturing defects, but that's not too common, and it really shouldn't matter whether you buy a Caviar Black or a Caviar Blue. However, the Blacks come with 5-year warranties, and the Blacks are generally faster, so you may want to buy a Caviar Black anyway. ;) For more exact performance numbers, this is a good site.
 
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I have a 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 from before they were acquired by Seagate, but I hear the new ones are just rebranded Barracudas. IMO, Seagate drives have declined in quality somewhat in recent years, so I would stick with WD at this point. I wish I could recommend a Samsung F3, because mine has been very fast, but Seagate seems to have changed them a lot. In terms of quality, though, WD has always seemed to have an impeccable track record; I'm still running a 40GB Caviar SE from around 2004 on my desktop, and it's never skipped a beat. I've also run a Western Digital 10GB IDE drive from the late 90s that still works, and a Western Digital 160GB IDE drive from 5 or 6 years ago that still works. I may be lucky, but I have literally never seen a WD drive fail.
 
Seagate has gave me no trouble with my 1TB, besides the SATA power adapter breaking off the L shape, but it still works fine.

Western digital is still my #1 recommend though. I have plenty of their mobile blues and blacks over the years and they never failed once. Had one get corrupted once, but i think that was an i/o error on the computer, not the drive.
 
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else good, but i'm looking for an internal one ;)
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Every single hard disk drive can work either as internal or external.The one I gave you the link for is in enclosure so it's meant to work as an external.To use it as an internal,just open an enclosure and take the hard disk drive out and use it as internal.As for the enclosure,you can use it for your other external hard disk drives.So for 139,19 dollars you get the enclosure AND a 3 TB hard disk drive.
It's a great deal if you ask me.
 
found SEAGATE Pipeline 5900 1TB HDD 3,5inch for ~75e, thinking about buying it instead (changing mind all the time :P ) anyone have comments about this (precise) one? [ST1000VM002]
gotta buy some other stuff from the same shop (MultiTronic)... so i don't need any links to other good hdd's :)
 
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