What’s the best storage device 1T~2T up to date? Do Cache 64MB vs 32 make a huge difference? Got suggestions? Let me know your thoughts!
I've had good luck with the F3EG drive from Samsung, WD also makes a nice drive. I don't think chache is going to be a huge issue considering that the drive is mainly for storage.
It depends what you mean by storage. If you mean it generically, as in "Hard drive that included boot partition" then the F3. If you mean literally as a second storage drive then the F4 5400rpm.
The F3 is pretty cheap right now so you could get two for just a little more than a 2TB drive and two drives are generally better than one.
You don't need speed in a storage drive. So what are your true intentions for this drive, speed or space?
fastest drive for applications/games: WD 2TB Black best price/performance: Samsung 1TB F3 best storage drive out of those: Samsung 2TB F4
Personally I think RAID with parity is definitely the way to go with storage. Things like raptors and SSDs are stupid expensive and only good for their low access time, but for storage you would be handling large files. 3 Samsung F3 in RAID 5 would beat out a single SSD in sustained read/write speeds and have several times the drive space. For a similar price too. Though SSDs are still far better at loading small files like booting windows with their lack of access time.
Thank you guys, I don't know much about raids, but does it work like sli or crossfire? Meaning two or more right? And why your suggesting Raid5? Why not 2 or even 1? Also check this ou:t http://cgi.ebay.com/White-Label-2TB...ps=63&clkid=4627961034517419040#ht_3112wt_927 I never heard of them, but specs looks alright. Thanks again
don't know where you are coming from, (cheaper?) but putting all your data onto an unbranded hard disk drive seems very risky. why not go for Samsung F3 2TB? not as expensive as WD Black, but still pretty fast
What he means is that in raid 0 the information is shared across the 2 drives. If 1 drive fails then all data is lost. If you are running raid 0 you really should back up any media, docs or whatever you want to keep. Personally I'd get the 3rd drive and use that for media storage and the like. Note in the link below Raid 0 has a fault tolerance of 0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
well you have twice the chance of your raid 0 array failing then having a single disk maybe get 3 disks and use raid 5? so if one fails, you can rebuild the array. You should always back up your data. It sounds like a waste of time, that is until you need it!
I have 2 F3's and they do their job well. Never bothered with raid arrays as I can't afford to have several HD's with the same info on them. I simply back up what is important. So pictures, CV type documents (work basically) possibly some save games. Everything else no matter how gutting it is to loose can be replaced. I did recently back up my music collection as replacing 50GB's worth of mp3 would be a lengthy and irritating process.