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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:01:50 » |
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All I know is when I was helping a mate out some months back I told him to wait because the prices had gone through the roof. They're looking cheaper now and I used to love Seagate. I think as long as you avoid Hitachi/IBM Deskstars (a personal hate of mine) you're probably good. Although I think you should buy a solid state. They're good. ![Too Cool](//thetownend.com/Smileys/tefsmile/gleam.gif)
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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:07:05 » |
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Although I think you should buy a solid state. They're good. ![Too Cool](//thetownend.com/Smileys/tefsmile/gleam.gif) Unless it's for the OS I wouldn't bother, as sonic is looking at a 2tb guess it's for storage. Is the sata controller a 3 sonic? Samsung Spinpoints are rather good too
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:10:26 » |
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I've got a 128GB SSD for my OS and my motherboard is indeed SATAIII. The 2TB will be to store all my music, films, games and porn ![Smiley](//thetownend.com/Smileys/tefsmile/smiley.gif) Ordinarily I'd wait for prices to come down much further but I haven't got enough space to back everything up before the drive dies
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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:14:31 » |
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Should be fine then and a better bet than any of the other brands Scan stock
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:22:57 » |
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I think as long as you avoid Hitachi/IBM Deskstars (a personal hate of mine) you're probably good. I've got a 1TB deskstar in my NAS. Hasn't caused me any problems, unlike my Samsung F3.
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:31:37 » |
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I've got a 1TB deskstar in my NAS. Hasn't caused me any problems, unlike my Samsung F3.
They're probably very good, I just have a phobia of them. I think I went through 3 in a year and then lost 250GB from a backup because one kicked the bucket. In fairness the last drive I lost was a Toshiba, but I think that was also called a Deskstar, or something similar, which doesn't help. ![Smiley](//thetownend.com/Smileys/tefsmile/smiley.gif)
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:38:26 » |
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I've had most problems with WD, tho saying that my Raptors have been fine
Samsung, I've had no problems with apart from installing a Sata 2 on a Sata 1 controller
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:42:51 » |
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Samsung, I've had no problems with apart from installing a Sata 2 on a Sata 1 controller
Shouldn't make any difference, surely? It would just operate at a lower speed.
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:51:46 » |
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Shouldn't make any difference, surely? It would just operate at a lower speed.
Nope you have to set the speed with some software, right palava
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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 13:08:50 » |
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my HDD is failing in my macbook pro so i've purchased a new one (moments XT 500gb) but then i realised that my HDD is under warranty!
so i think i'll keep the moments and sell my RMA replacement which is a Western Digital Scorpion Black
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