Best OS Drive & Best Storage Drive Recommendations


  1. BreakAes
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    Best OS Drive & Best Storage Drive Recommendations


    I'm going to buy a new hard drive for a new OS installation, and I'd like to know what the most reliable, well performing drive is, for the best price. I'm thinking about a 1 Terabyte drive because I'll probably install Windows 7, XP, and possibly try to build a Hackintosh too. So I'll probably make 3 partitions, or 4 since Windows 7 requires an extra partition for the bootmgr or whatever.

    Also, I'm looking for storage drive recommendations. I bought a Samsung HD240UI quite awhile ago and it's performed well so far.

    Let me know what you think, thanks!
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  3. Maguscreed
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    It depends on what your personal interest is in directly.
    Are you more concerned with performance, or longevity?
    Are you more concerned with energy use, or seek times?
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  4. DeaconFrost
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    This isn't something we can really help with. By a hard drive from a reputable brand that is the size/speed you want. As for the OS, I'd stick with one as your primary, and then virtualize the others.
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  6. badger906
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    best drive for os, id suggest an SSD of 60gb or larger. corsair force 3 120gb gets my vote, for storage a 2tb should serfice
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  7. BreakAes
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    I think for now I'm going to avoid SSD because of the prices. I also checked the reviews awhile ago and there seem to be problems (with the firmware etc) they're still working out.

    I'll probably get the Samsung 2 TB for storage and I was thinking about this one for the operating systems: Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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