Which internal Terabyte HDD?

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  1. Posts : 889
    Windows 7 64 & Ubuntu 64
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    Which internal Terabyte HDD?


    I am needing to upgrade to a Terabyte internal HDD really soon and was wondering if anyone could suggest a few good ones or options I should be looking at when comparing internal terabyte HDD's

    I dont want to spend an arm and a leg... something "affordable" I suppose? Is $100 a fair shot for a good internal terabyte?
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  4. Posts : 6,857
    Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 (desktop)
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    +1. The Caviar Black drives work very well.
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  5. Posts : 1,083
    Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit
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    Cons: 2 out of 3 defective (promptly replaced with good drives by NewEgg, but the 11 bucks return shipping raised the average price - wish I had ordered a different drive)
    I would highly recommend anything Western Digital. I use their drives myself and they really last and are priced well.
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    Windows 7
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    Product FRED said:
    Cons: 2 out of 3 defective (promptly replaced with good drives by NewEgg, but the 11 bucks return shipping raised the average price - wish I had ordered a different drive)
    I would highly recommend anything Western Digital. I use their drives myself and they really last and are priced well.
    oops, didn't even bother looking at the reviews. HITACHI is an OK HDD company. I only use one 1TB on my side system and it's been running fine for 7 months now.
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  7. Posts : 2,686
    Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center 64bit, Windows 7 HP 64bit
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    They also have a new one:

    Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

    Also the WD Black editions have a 5 year warranty while most others are 3 yrs.
    I still have a 7yr old WD EIDE drive in my system that I use as a backup.

    Jim
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  8. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
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    Phone Man said:
    They also have a new one:

    Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

    Also the WD Black editions have a 5 year warranty while most others are 3 yrs.
    I still have a 7yr old WD EIDE drive in my system that I use as a backup.

    Jim

    Hello Phone Man.


    I haden't seen the new SATA 3 HDD from them yet, thanks.


    People need to know that they will need a motherboard that is able to run that (SATA 3/6GBs) HDD.
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  9. Posts : 759
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
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    Seagate Barracuda 1TB
    SeaGate is simply the best, and I won't purchase any other brand of hard drive. I own several that are around 15 years old, and still chuggin' along.
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  10. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Bare Foot Kid said:
    People need to know that they will need a motherboard that is able to run that (SATA 3/6GBs) HDD.
    Do you really need a mobo that supports SATA 6Gb/s, isn't the drive backwards compatible with the older SATA standards...it would just be limited to the slower speed potential of SATA 3Gb/s?

    And on that topic, the max theoretical throughput of 3.0Gb/s is 385MB/s. With the overhead of SATA, that number drops to around 300MB/s. This is about 2.5 to 3.0 times faster than the Western Digital Caviar Black can actually sequentially read or write data. Thus, I don't understand the need to upgrade to this standard at that point.

    MadMaxData said:
    Seagate Barracuda 1TB
    SeaGate is simply the best, and I won't purchase any other brand of hard drive. I own several that are around 15 years old, and still chuggin' along.
    I'm a fan of Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi drives. Each family can experience problems and I don't think there is truly a universal "best". Seagate did have a long run of problem free drives, but unfortunately that run came to an abrupt halt with the 7200.11 series drives which experienced many firmware issues causing all kinds of grief.
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