The (new) Official PC building thread!

Avoid the Hitachis, but the Seagate, Samsung and WDs are all good drives. Options 4&5 are the two types of drives my friend uses in his file server - both are quiet and fast. Option 2 are the drives I use in my file server - also excellent. You can't go wrong with any of them really. May as well save the 10 bucks and get the WDs, I've had a few and they've been great.

 

Thanks sam.. I have a few WD's myself and they've all been good performers. (knocks on wooden anything for protection from Murphy...lol) I agree about saving the "tenner". lol I've been needing a new HDD for storage and those seem like winners to me. thanks again!!!

.....gm

 

Hehe, IIRC Creaky uses those drives too.


Do they use the expression "tenner" in the US?

 

here ya go buddy. for the price its the best money can buy. the newest one out. 32mb cache super fast. just remember to pull the jumper pin in the back to get the 3.0gb/s instead of factory 1.5gb/s... go ahead get ya 2 to go with those 3 360gb WD ya got..lol

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288

not my day..lol thanks sam

 

Um, link?

 

greensman,

Hands down, none of the above! LOL!! Not when this is available for your $99.99! I discovered it quite by accident and it has a 32MB cache

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288

Best Regards,
Russ

 

LMAO
Dang Russ thats the same thing i linked him too..lol

 

cincyrob,
Great minds think alike! LOL!!

Russ

 

lol.

cant wait to get me one of them if not 2

 

I too was going to recommend the seagate 32mb 500gb hdd. best hdd of the bunch big time and same price. I'm gonna pick one up myself soon but 1st I want to get another seagate 32mb 250gb hdd to pair with the one I have now for RAID configuration.

 

ok educate me some more please.. what advantage is it to use RAID? and from Morts last statement do the HDD in use need to be the same size?

 

It's a Seagate so it'll be good, but is there any concrete proof saying how much faster these are than 16MB drives? I seem to remember WD talking down the extra cache saying it's not beneficial for performance, and WD sound like a company who know what they're talking about...

 

Raid0- Performance. Half the stuff is written on one drive and the other half on a different. In theory this should cut time in half.

Raid1- Redundancy. Basically you have mirror copy drives. If one drive fails the other has the exact same stuff on it.

 

abuzar1,
Don't forget the down side of Raid0! If you lose 1 drive, you lose it all! You can have the drive recovered, but it's horrifically expensive to do. I do Raid1 mirror on all my customer builds. Most are Doctors, Dentists and Lawyers, people who cannot afford the have something happen to their records. Very easy to install too!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

give me your addy Russ and ill send ya all my junk and see if you can get it working...lol

EDIT:
thats not saying you couldnt get it running like a champ that i thought i'd be able to do, its saying i dont have a clue as to what the hell im doing and shouldnt have even tried...

 

Yeah that's true. Since only half you data is stored on one Drive, it affective makes it useless unless you have both drives working at the same time.

 

i missed this before..lol
heck thats just it nothing i have other than the fan and the silly name i gave it, is RED..lmsao

 

of couse there is a risk of loosing a drive and therefor all your data with RAID 0 but there is also a risk with only 1 hdd and no RAID. I'm after performance and speed so RAID 0 is what I will be using.

 

Rob,

Don't even go there! This is something I know you can do. I know you do your homework and check things out before you do anything so I know it will come right in the end, that I promise you! Hell I didn't even do a for real overclock until 4 years ago as I didn't even own a computer for several years. I don't think I was even on a computer more than once for almost 5 years. I just got so burned out with computers, and it was a lot harder then than it is today! It was all Greek to me then, but with the help of a lot of patient folks, here and another forum, I sort of got the hang of it! LOL!!

Hang in there buddy! In the end, it will be worth it!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Mort81,

No knock on Raid 0! I was just pointing out the facts for those who don't know. I would do the same thing as you, if I needed more performance and speed! LOL!! It's a risk just getting out of bed in the morning! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ