Looking for a new HDD

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:23

Ive decided that it's high time to upgrade my HDD thats 80GB and IDE (yes lol I still use an IDE HDD xD) Im going for SATA would prefer none SSD but Im open to SSD if it's decently priced.

Looking for something of up to 1TB of memory and about 5400-7200rpm but really doesn't matter on actual size since Ill be using it for very little anyway.

Any help appreciated thanks

Unicorn · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:26

First question: Budget and what will you be using it for?? E.G Storage occasionally or a lot for a OS HDD?

Second: Might seem odd but can you afford to wait? HDD prices are sky high at the moment and they SHOULD (No promises) Drop a little in price in next few months (yn)

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:28

Budget of up to £100. Mostly OS but the only reason my HDD is only OS atm is cause its such a small capacity. I can wait a bit but then I probably won't have any student loan left xD

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:33

I could go more than £100 but then Id be reduced to beans on toast for the rest of the semester.

Unicorn · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:38

Right the F3's have a lot of positive reviews on here

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £119.99
Total : £124.98 (includes shipping : £4.16).

Personally ide go for a Hitachi but its cos i always had them with zero failures.. Bit cheaper too!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0F10383) £98.99
Total : £107.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).

P.S Shipping cost may be wrong..

This is sticking to your 1TB.. Do you need it though? For a lot less you can pick up a SATA 500GB.

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:40

Yea I can go a lot less memory wise I did say up to xD I have a 2Tb external anyway

Unicorn · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:42

Shot myself in the foot saying a lot.. i forget hard drive prices sometimes.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £79.99
Total : £83.90 (includes shipping : £3.26).

Again a lot of positive reviews and fast!

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:44

Damn that is fast! might have to get it ahah. nice price as well... Idk why SSD's are way more expensice than disk HDD's since SSD drives are manufactured a lot more easily tbh... but oh well I like disk HDD's better ^.^

Unicorn · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:47

If you were going for an SSD ide say the m4, Havn't got one but i hear the ocz ones are naff. There very very fast but only good if u have a storage drive internally for all your files. As you would only put ur OS and afew games on a SSD

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £79.99
Total : £88.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).

As mentioned

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:49

Yeah I can see your point that is pretty low storage capacity.

stueng · 10 Jan 2012 at 12:59

now is not the best time to be buying HDD's because of what happened in Thai Land... if you can put it off for a bit? Or look into what the prices are doing at the moment

opstrat · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:04

any idea of when the market will stabalize?

Unicorn · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:06

Theres a thread on this topic.. Try soon hopefully. If not why not get an SSD! Cheap and fast

opstrat · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:10

yeah just found it cheers

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:19

Btw how can what type of Sata my mobo is? >.<

stueng · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:21

what mobo is it + google

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:26

So since my Mobo has 4 x SATA 3Gb/s for I/O connecters... never really looked into SATA tbh, what does that mean..? >.>

beejjacobs · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:45

4 x SATA 3Gb/s

That means you can connect 4 SATA II devices, so hard drives, ssds, optical drives (DVD, blu-ray).

SATA is smaller (connector) and faster than IDE.

Ollie1132 · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:45

So if I got a Sata 6gb/s I would have a 3Gb/s speed but it would still work?

beejjacobs · 10 Jan 2012 at 13:47

Ollie1132 said:
So if I got a Sata 6gb/s I would have a 3Gb/s speed but it would still work?

Indeed it would be fine. Is this for an HDD or an SSD?

If it's a 6Gb/s HDD, it won't make a difference as they are not fast enough to even fully use 3Gb/s