Two new HDD's

Kiro-San · 21 Jun 2009 at 18:39

After a bit of a snafu with my boot HGST 7k250 250gB drive over the last few days I've decided to replace that and the 7k250 that holds all my games. Both are getting on now (the boot drive must be almost 5 years old now). So I'm looking for two new drives. Looking round at prices I'm happy to spend about £200 in total, which of course cancels out SSD's and Raptors (not liking their £/GB). Won't be running the drives in any sort of RAID either.

In addition I'd like to buy a decent external caddie/enclosure. Looking to spend under £50 on one of those.

So what HDD's should I be looking at (I have no brand loyalty) and who makes a decent caddy? Cheers.

Kiro-San · 21 Jun 2009 at 19:05

Yeh I left the capacity out on purpose. The boot drive will actually be partitioned into a boot drive and a downloads partition. I was thinking of spending a bit more money on a quick and big (looking at the prices though two 1TB drives isn't out of the question really) gaming drive and a bit less on the boot drive.

That enclosure looks good. Is it simply a case of sliding out the tray, plugging the HDD in and then sliding it back in?

Kiro-San · 21 Jun 2009 at 22:54

Looking around I've been considering the 300GB Raptor for my gaming drive. 300GB is easily enough for that purpose and the price is actually a lot better than I thought it would be and then that Barracuda for my OS/Downloads drive. Just over £200 which is fine. The dock is under £50 so that comes in at under £250 anyway.

Kiro-San · 22 Jun 2009 at 10:54

Ended up getting one of the 1TB Caviars and the 300GB Velociraptor. Spent a bit more than I wanted but the Caviar looks like an awesome drive. Went for the Icy Dock MB-559US as the external enclosure. Got some very good reviews.