WD's 3TB Internal HD

brianzion · 20 Oct 2010

yes i thought that samsung, i already use the other WD at the moment came with the pc works well i have never had problems with it i have to say be good to try another and they are a good price (both under £50):)
just want another internal drive that will work ok my friend said the samsung would be a bit more noisy because of the 2 platter

Everlong · 20 Oct 2010

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
Wasn't a 25 MB disk drive meant to be MORE than enough storage that ANYBODY could ever want or use. Was it IBM or even a well known Mr Gates who said this when PC's first came out into the general public domain.

Not sure who said this but in the early days of PC's this amount of storage was considered as almost unrealistically high.

I see now it won't be too long before a 1PB - 1 PETABYTE drive appears (1PB = 1000 TB or 1000 * 1000 GB).

Cheers
jimbo

There's no proof Bill Gates said that, and it's such a dogmatic and short sighted thing to say. Though it's just like Ken Olsen saying nobody needs a personal computer...

Benjamin Hall · 20 Oct 2010

Times change, business needs change, personal needs change, etc..

I mean, e-commerce is HUGE. It's the main reason why the Internet took off so fast!
People become very ADHD which is why they have over 10,000 songs and 4,000 videos on their computer, not to mention old caches they refuse to clean out which over time can take up several GBs of hard drive space...

Dr Shambles · 20 Oct 2010

Benjamin Hall said:

Times change, business needs change, personal needs change, etc..

I mean, e-commerce is HUGE. It's the main reason why the Internet took off so fast!
People become very ADHD which is why they have over 10,000 songs and 4,000 videos on their computer, not to mention old caches they refuse to clean out which over time can take up several GBs of hard drive space...

How does having 10,000 songs make you ADHD? I have around 30,000 because I like music, not because I chew my ear and chase my tail in a padded room.

Btw how do you clean out old caches? Is that just a disk defrag?

s31 · 20 Oct 2010

the samsung drive is good if you need it for OS drive and cant afford a SSD or would like to access your files quicker

if it's for storage/backup get the green drive

tw33k · 20 Oct 2010

brianzion said:

any views on this drive please Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) [HD103SJ]

Here's mine: Show us your hard drive performance

It's a great drive.

mickey megabyte · 21 Oct 2010

tw33k said:

brianzion said:

any views on this drive please Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) [HD103SJ]

Here's mine: Show us your hard drive performance

It's a great drive.

+1 i've got one too - you won't regret it.

brianzion · 21 Oct 2010

thanks all i will try the samsung

Benjamin Hall · 21 Oct 2010

Dr Shambles said:

Btw how do you clean out old caches? Is that just a disk defrag?

No, you gotta dump the cache.
You can do it in C Cleaner quite easily
or you can do it the long way with CMD

brianzion · 21 Oct 2010

Hitachi GST
Hitachi Deskstar 0S02573 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB

any feedback on this drive please