It costs more lol, otherwise no
3TB drives, only 1yr warranty? And recommendations?
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I would recommend the WD Red Drives they have a 3 years warranty and are designed to be used 24/7 so they are robust and reliable. I have two in my machine and they have been working flawlessly.
Depends on what you will be storing on there really if its just pictures, movies and music then the WD RED is ideal, if however you are looking to put your Steam account on there then I would say get a WD Black instead.
WD have just released a 4TB RED drive too so that might be worth a look should you want a little more space.
Well, its for my main (sole) hard drive, with a SDD being the OS drive. So my steam account for example will be on it.
That said, I'm looking to also get a USB caddie and start fully mirroring all my drives regularly (across all my machine). At the moment I just do important files, but I'm going to start doing full disk mirrors.
So maybe I'll get a BLACK as my main drive, and then a RED as the drive to store away as the mirror of it.
This would be my advice, the Black has that little more grunt and the Reds are much better suited to storage.
And the noise isn't an issue on the blacks? (Keep in mind, at the moment I'm on SATA2 with my MB)
I have had blacks in the past and that's never been an issue for me. SATA 2 wont really matter there will be very little real world difference with a mechanical drive.
The blacks do sound very clicky?!?!? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtpMr8wrGRQ
Toshiba (7K3000.D) 3TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache are only £90!!!
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If you decide to get Western Digital drives you can add another years worth of warranty to the drive by purchasing a " WD Care Extended Service Plan ", cost about £5.99 though Ocuk does not sell it but you can get it from a competitor, saying this Ocuk should really make this available on there site as £5.99 seems a pretty reasonable price for another year of warranty.
I'm now thinking of getting one of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB drives (1tb platter, 2yr warranty).
Half the price of the Western Digital Black and supposedly faster, quieter and cooler!
Bear in mind I have the OS on a SDD, and the plan is to back up both the SSD and my new hard drive entirely every few months, so if a drive fails I've got a recent backup!
Half the price of the Western Digital Black and supposedly faster, quieter and cooler!
Bear in mind I have the OS on a SDD, and the plan is to back up both the SSD and my new hard drive entirely every few months, so if a drive fails I've got a recent backup!
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Never heard of this but sounds very good and definitely seems worrth it.
It doesn't make the drive any more reliable, just you get a bigger window where if it fails, you get a replacement free.
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Obviously. But a 3year warranty is much more attractive.
Yeah it is true although UEFI boards are very common now so that isnt an issue.
Cant say i have ever owned that particular drive but i have never heard god things about Seagate and had two 500gb fail on me in the past but i am sure they are much better now especially since they joined with Samsung.
Thank you demon, I've been waiting for that news for an absurd length of time.
The speed isn't a big worry really - my WD green drives have no problem sustaining 100 mbyte/s for large transfers. The higher speed drives will be better at small file accesses, but the popular combination of ssd + hard drive wipes out that advantage.
Tell me about it i have been waiting for ages too!
They are going to be going in a 5 Bay Synology NAS couldnt ask for a more suited drive to be honest!
Did someone say that a 3TB drive has to be partitioned via GPT in a 64bit OS. This is incorrect. I partitioned via GPT in Administrator mode in Windows Vista 32 in Disk Management. It is not the Discography that cannot handle the LBA on a GPT partition, but the Operating system itself. If GPT was not able to be dealt with under 32bit Vista then it would not be possible for me to see my WD 3TB Green Drive.
Admittedly if I boot into Win 7 or Win 8 I have to load the drive via disk management every time. If I boot from the same OS each time then the drive and partition load every time without having to reconfigure.
It is true however, that you can only install an OS like Win 7 or 8 on a GPT partition you would have to load the drive via UEFI and install from there.
This is why a lot of people are installing via UEFI now. The only problem comes if you have Motherboard problems or Bios problems. I just load data onto my Green drive which is backed up on my external WD Green 3TB.
Admittedly if I boot into Win 7 or Win 8 I have to load the drive via disk management every time. If I boot from the same OS each time then the drive and partition load every time without having to reconfigure.
It is true however, that you can only install an OS like Win 7 or 8 on a GPT partition you would have to load the drive via UEFI and install from there.
This is why a lot of people are installing via UEFI now. The only problem comes if you have Motherboard problems or Bios problems. I just load data onto my Green drive which is backed up on my external WD Green 3TB.