Recommend a 2TB Drive.

The prices are obserd now and I can't help but feel that they are milking the situation. They realised they had let hard drives get too cheap and now they have the perfect excuse to rectify that.
 
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The prices are obserd now and I can't help but feel that they are milking the situation. They realised they had let hard drives get too cheap and now they have the perfect excuse to rectify that.
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Absurd?

Not at all, they were obnoxiously cheap prior to the floods, prices went up lots but have stabilised back down to pretty reasonable levels now.

5 pence per GB on an average 2TB drive price. Hardly absurd is it?
 
Quite honestly.... any of the Seagate/Samsung or WD drives listed on the OCUK site will do the job

Eco or 7200rpm does'nt matter for your listed use... just the depth of your pockets and the length of your arms :)

I've just got a couple of the Seagate Baracuda Greens (short arms !!) they do the job..I'm happy :)

They all die and none are guaranteed ... not to die! :(


back your data up !!!
 
Sin_Chase said:
Absurd?

Not at all, they were obnoxiously cheap prior to the floods, prices went up lots but have stabilised back down to pretty reasonable levels now.

5 pence per GB on an average 2TB drive price. Hardly absurd is it?
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Intrestingly this one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-256-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

at a shade over 20 quid more than it's 2TB counterpart seems to suggest that the 3TB drives will be the new "niche" large storage size in the coming months?? Although with warranty reduced to 2 years it would worry me having a device with that much data on with only a 2 year safety net :(
 
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If Seagates were noisy they haven't been for a long time. Every drive I have bought in the last 7-8 years has been a Seagate because they are quiet.
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Would have to agree

Got 4 total here, of different sizes, and none of them are ...um noisy at all. You'll hear one spin up occasionally, if it's been sat idle, but apart from that nowt.

Past experience seems to suggest that SOME noisy drives are down to bad case mounting designs and resonation? Could be wrong (often am) but a personal observation only :)
 
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Intrestingly this one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-256-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

at a shade over 20 quid more than it's 2TB counterpart seems to suggest that the 3TB drives will be the new "niche" large storage size in the coming months?? Although with warranty reduced to 2 years it would worry me having a device with that much data on with only a 2 year safety net :(
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I looked at the 3TB version but decided to go for 2 x 2TB versions instead and RAID-0 them.

Costs a little more overall but get 4TB of storage and the performance increase of the stripe.
 
I actually can't say that I've had a noisy hard drive in probably a decade. I tend to go for western digital, don't really know why.

Do you lot remember maxtor? Amusingly mine died because I trod in my pc case when I wasn't looking and ripped the cables clean out the back and took some of the circuitry with it.

Sin_Chase said:
Absurd?

Not at all, they were obnoxiously cheap prior to the floods, prices went up lots but have stabilised back down to pretty reasonable levels now.

5 pence per GB on an average 2TB drive price. Hardly absurd is it?
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I wrote that pretty drunkly last night haha. But even so, they have shown that they can still make good profits are far lower prices. Now they are being greedy. I'm willing to bet they aren't the price they are still just because of the floods.
 
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How much will 5900 RPM decrease SSD caching benefits when compared to a 7200? In other words, if I'm planning on getting a new 2TB drive and using an SSD for caching, would it be stupid to get a 5900RPM drive?
 
It is actually related, because I want a 2TB green drive and I'm wondering if getting a slower RPM will have detrimental effect on caching performance.

Go troll another thread, k?
 
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