Hard Drive Reccomendation

seb500 · 20 Mar 2010 at 16:26

Have been meaning to upgrade my Hard Drive for a while since my current one is three years old.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-329-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

I don't know who makes good Hard Drives, so is that a Good hard drive to buy?

Ziggy4 · 20 Mar 2010 at 16:30

Depends what you want? Low cost, reliable, high performance, large capacity, some combination of those? WD do make good hard drives, but so do Samsung and Seagate.

Need more info...

jbloggs · 20 Mar 2010 at 16:43

The WD "Greens", Samsung "EcoGreens" etc (all 5xxx rpm) HDDs should only really be used for storage and not as a HDD to boot from and run an OS on, for that you want at least a 7200 rpm HDD, or better still an SSD...

seb500 · 20 Mar 2010 at 18:02

Well in terms of cost, I would rather not spend a huge amount bit am willing to go to about £50. Need around 320/500 so... Suggestions!

jbloggs: I have just been told the EcoGreens are not very good etc so look at the blue or black series WD do, thanks for the info as well mate

something like the WD black 500GB 32mb cache?

jbloggs · 20 Mar 2010 at 18:28

The Samsung EcoGreens are certainly good for data storage, but not to run an OS on...

For a 500GB HDD, either This or This...

bhavv · 20 Mar 2010 at 18:44

The Samsung F3 is my drive of choice, either the 500 Gb, or 1 Tb is fine.

seb500 · 20 Mar 2010 at 19:14

Thanks for the help all, jbloggs think I am going to go with the WD Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache.

Ziggy4 · 20 Mar 2010 at 20:22

Caviar Black or F3 are both good choices, but for the OS I would have chosen the Black also.