Need a new hard-drive

D3LL · 28 Jan 2011

Hello there,

I am looking into getting a new hard drive partly because I have 10gb left of 500gb so I am looking at getting a 1000gb hard-drive also it is a few years old so the performance is not that great.

Can anyone suggest to me a good hard drive for my PC that is under about £60? that includes both of the above.

Many Thanks,

pebbly · 28 Jan 2011

try here from £39 upwards Scan.co.uk: SATA I & II - 1TB - 3TB :)

mjf · 28 Jan 2011

I would personally stick to 1TB and wouldn't consider 3TB at this stage for a range of reasons.

mickey megabyte · 28 Jan 2011

from pebbly's link,

go for the samsung, and you'll be happy.

it's big, fast, and at a great price.

D3LL · 28 Jan 2011

Would it enable me to have a quick boot and faster loading games?

mlevy · 28 Jan 2011

D3LL said:

Would it enable me to have a quick boot and faster loading games?

The 3TB one? Not necessarily. Consider also that there are also certain prerequisites to be met to make a 3TB drive bootable, some are not yet mainstream, particularly UEFI instead of the more common BIOS.

D3LL · 28 Jan 2011

Should I get 64mb cache and what exactly is cache on a Hard drive.

Everlong · 28 Jan 2011

D3LL said:

Should I get 64mb cache and what exactly is cache on a Hard drive.

The cache/buffer on HDDs are just where commonly used values are stored that have been used earlier, so if that same value needs to be read again, it can be read from the cache, which is a lot quicker than having to read it from the HDD again. Larger caches are better to go for.

D3LL · 28 Jan 2011

I thought I was correct, Thanks for confirming.

whs · 28 Jan 2011

The larger the drive, the slower it will be.