Spec me thread...2TB

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Right my old man is looking to replace his 160gb with a 2TB. Recently purchased a copy of Win7 so looking for a new hard drive to go with it.

What are the best ones around. He loves Seagate, and hasn't had any issues with them. He is a bit anti WD as he has had bad experiences in the past.
To be honest I was anti WD also but recently purchased some of their disks and they are fine and very quick. Also the 5 year warranty was appealing.

I have been looking at the Samsung disks, I put a couple of the 1TB F3's in my machine and have been very happy with them. Which lead me on to look at the F4.

Anyway, any advice is always helpful.

Cheers
Dan
 
Is this for a boot drive? If so it might be worth going for something smaller because a 7200rpm 2Tb disk is going to be pricey. I don't fancy booting from a 5400rpm disk, the sustained transfer rate might be OK but the access time won't be great.
 
I would agree that it's awesome - certainly better than my WD Greens in terms of sequential reads and writes (but then it is a generation newer with denser platters). Not so sure about using it as a boot drive though, I've never tested random reads/writes.

However, it would probably be cheaper to buy a fast 120 or 250 GB boot drive and a 2 TB F4EG rather than a fast 2 TB drive. In fact, a 500 GB Caviar Blue plus a 2 TB F4EG or WD Green is under £100, whereas a fast 2 TB (Caviar Black, there are no 2 TB Caviar Blues) is over £130.
 
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Thank you all,
He went ahead and ordered the Seagate Barracuda 2TB drive.

The other problem he has is space within his case. Sadly there is only space for one disk.
 
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