I need some new HDD's and Im eyeing up a pair of 1Tb drives, but im utterly stumped as to what brand to go for. I've currently got a 4 year old Hitachi drive, and an 18 month year old Western Digital drive, so have no idea of other brands. I'd ideally like a quiet as possible, and also a cheap as possible
I have a Saumsung Spinpoint F1 and it is brilliant. But most brands are very similar; have a look at the most recent drive test results and the comparisons. On scan the cheapest is the hitachi at £57 and the most expensive is one of the western digital at £118 Different people say different things depending on their own experiences. I hope that this (sort of) helps. Dave
I went for a seagate, which turned into a nightmare when the firmware bricked itself, however seagate are so good they did data recovery free of charge for me, so i will now only purchase seagates. i think the samsung F1 and F2 drives are over rated, there basically all the same, i would avoid the cheapest drives going, but it depends on there task, if its somewhere for you to dump ya fap happy vid's then grab a cheap one as its just low use storage. If its a scratch disc for photoshop then get something that can handle being hammered.
For a server or storage the WD Green drives are probably the most energy efficient drives you can get and quiet too, and get my vote. Not cheap though. Otherwise the samsung F1s are the best bang-for-buck for general usage right now.
depends on your use: -Application/Games drive: WD Black for its low random access time, it's fantastic for application drive -Storage: WD Green for its energy effeciency. -mix of everything: Sammy F1, it's sort of half way house. not as fast as WD Black in access time, but rated very high for its transfer speeds, so great for shuffling large files.
Uber Fastest in world in SATA HDD for OS, programs/applications, and games? WD Velociraptor (expensive and low storage though...) Fastest 1 TB SATA HDD for OS, programs/applications, and games? WD Caviar Black Want to save some energy? WD Caviar Green I've also been hearing good things about the Samsung Spinpoint F1, with its crazy write times. For price though, I guess the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 should be a good performance vs price.
For reliability, go Seagate. For speed and performance, go either WD Black or Samsung F1. Or, as stated above put a WD Velociraptor for OS and one of the above for Storage.
am i missing something with Seagate's 7200.11 1TB drive firmware problems? for reliability, WD; for speed, WD Black/Raptor; for storage and evergy, WD Green. WD all the way. perhaps Samsung F1 if you need really fast sequencal read/write for some unknown reason. i can't think of any, since application/OS need WD Black's access time, and get Green for storage as you don't need to write to it that much.
