2TB for under £90!?

Nate Silvers · 13 Sep 2010 at 00:17

I can't beleive how cheap 2TB hard drives are now, I remember them being over £200 not long ago.

My limit is £90...

Now I have a 1TB a 1.5TB and now a 2TB in the space of 2 years all because they keep dropping in price.

TAC4U · 13 Sep 2010 at 00:27

Yeah, but keep in mind that the cheaper drives have lower spin speeds and therefore do not perform as well. It still costs £130+ for a 2TB 7200RPM drive.

bhavv · 13 Sep 2010 at 01:13

The Samsung F4 is the newest one out and uses 3 x 667 Gb platters, and its only £85.

I'd get one of those.

The cheapest one is the Seagate LP at £80, I got that one and its completely fine for a storage drive.

2 Tb drives are £80 - £85, and samsung F3 1 Tb's are £45, they are amazing value for Raid 0 F3s plus a backup 2 Tb drive.

HeX · 13 Sep 2010 at 09:05

TAC4U said:
Yeah, but keep in mind that the cheaper drives have lower spin speeds and therefore do not perform as well. It still costs £130+ for a 2TB 7200RPM drive.

The Sammy 2TB 5400RPM F4 performs as fast as a Sammy 1TB 7200RPM F3.

Both have about 140MB/s Read/Writes.

You can't just look at drive RPM's, the F4 has much bigger and denser platters, which off sets the lack of rotational speed.

Nate Silvers · 13 Sep 2010 at 17:54

Damn already got the WD. Oh well it's only for storage.

Edit - Looks like I got a 3 platter Caviar anyways...

http://vr-zone.com/articles/667gb-p...l-caviar-green-2tb-wd20ears-00mvwb0/9335.html

PhillyDee · 13 Sep 2010 at 18:52

TAC4U said:
Yeah, but keep in mind that the cheaper drives have lower spin speeds and therefore do not perform as well. It still costs £130+ for a 2TB 7200RPM drive.

Even so, with SSD's large disks are just being used for storage these days.
Who needs a 2TB boot drive?
I have 5x1Tb drives in my home server and still have plenty of room. Once they are nearing 75% full I will start the slow upgrade to 2Tb drives.