1TB Drive

NotAGolf · 21 Dec 2009 at 19:13

I'm looking at buying a new 1TB drive as I'm running out of space! Was just wondering if there are any new products coming out in the near future that might be worth hanging around for, either by being good or causing a drop in price of the existing stuff?

If not, what drive would you suggest? I'm after 1TB for as cheap as possible.

The Samsung F2 is a tenner cheaper than everything else, but it's out of stock and is only a 5400rpm. Is this too slow? I'm only using the drive for storage so don't think it'd be that noticeable?

If that's a no go then it looks like it's between the WD Caviar Green (32mb) or the Samsung F3. Thoughts?

Thanks for any help.

droyden · 22 Dec 2009 at 14:03

If its purely for storage then just get a green/5400rpm one..

theron · 22 Dec 2009 at 15:17

if you are gona be using it purely for storage then droyden is right, 5400rpm vs 7200 rpm wont mean anything really. 5400rpm are less powr hungry and supposed to last longer.

El Jimben · 22 Dec 2009 at 22:42

I don't know about new drives on the horizon but I've just swapped 2 Seagate 7200.10 for 2x 1TB Samsung F3 drives and I'm very impressed with them.

killerxx7 · 23 Dec 2009 at 17:23

I got two maxtor deskstar 1tb,two western digital green 1tb's and 3 seagate 160's the 160's are by far the fasted drives out of all of them but the green is also very good very silent and uses the least power plus it pulls the least power

jamjar · 24 Dec 2009 at 01:23

Hi i have an F3 TB1 with Windows 7 on and its awesome ,like a different p.c fast and quiet

nightwish · 24 Dec 2009 at 10:26

The latest WD green drives (WD**EARS) are the new 'Advanced Format' drives, which may have issues with XP and older OSs. See Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins for more info.