MJimLay
aka FlexBaud
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Beach Haven
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| Hard Drive?
My system is almost 2 years old and I'm finding myself running out of hard drive space. I currently have a 750 GB Seagate drive which I have been very pleased with but for the past 6 months, I have been between 5% and 10% of free space.
I am thinking about throwing this drive into my system as a slave:
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···22148337
Anyone here have this drive? It seems to be the best bang for the buck. I am going to keep the 750 GB as my main drive where Windows/Applications will be installed and use this 1.5TB drive for my music, videos, etc. I have a external 1TB drive which I use for backing up important data.
Suggestions? |
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seaquake
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join:2001-03-23
Millersville, MD
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| Before tossing in another drive, can get rid of items on your old drive that you don't need?Also, do you have your current HDD backed up? 700G is a lot of data to lose should that drive die on you. /PSA
As for the drive you are considering, take those reviews on newegg into account. 26% (of 1588 total reviews) with a 1-star rating doesn't give me a good feeling about this drive. If I were in the market for a 1G+ HDD, I'd avoid this one. |
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MJimLay
aka FlexBaud
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Beach Haven
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| I have a lot of DIVX movies on my system that could be burned to DVD's, but prefer to keep them on a hard drive as when I burn them, I have to select 4:3 or 16:9 when burning the video files to discs and my TV's are all 4:3 currently but want to save for the future as well.
I do have two 250 GB drives just sitting around which would be fine for this data, but they are IDE and my system only has SATA. I suppose I could build a "server", but with our electric bill already being over $200 a month for a 1300 sq foot home... It's something I'd like to keep away from. |
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asdfdfdfdfdf
@Level3.net
| If you think the 2 250GB drives would be enough another option would be a pci ide card such as:
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···15280002
There are also pci-express cards if you don't have any free pci slots. |
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MJimLay
aka FlexBaud
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| (2) 250 GB drives would be plenty of room for me. I also do have a PCI IDE Controller Card. However, my system can only take one more drive and only has SATA power connections for hard drives. I suppose I could get a power adapter, but I would still be limited with the amount of drives in my system. |
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howie
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join:2003-04-08
Little Falls, NJ
2 edits | reply to MJimLay
I highly recommend this 7200.12, 1TB (500GB/platter) unit.
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···22148433
Fast (~130MB/sec max. read speed), extremely quiet, and it runs 3-6 degrees C cooler than my 1TB 7200.11 and 320GB 7200.10. Plus, it has none of the firmware issues that plagued the 7200.11 series drives.
I realize Seagate has earned a bad name with the recent 7200.11 fiasco, but I've never had one fail me. My external is a 400GB 7200.9, and that too is running issue free after years of use. |
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MJimLay
aka FlexBaud
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| Thanks Howie.
I used to use nothing but Western Digital drives but after having nearly every single Western Digital drive I owned fail on me, I made the switch to Seagate and have yet to have a dead drive. I don't think I'll ever own another Western Digital drive as I have just lost too much important data over the years.
Either way, 1TB would be more than enough for the system. I'll look into that one. |
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seaquake
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Millersville, MD
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| reply to MJimLay
I had 2 WD drives fail on me in an ACOMDATA drive enclosure (500G). The first one in 40 days and the second one in 14 months (warranty replacement of the first). I then decided to go with the WD enclosure with a 750G drive, which has worked great thus far. I'm hoping the ACOMDATA fried the external drive or the 500G were a bad batch. To date, this is the only WD drive I've ever had fail on me. I have WD drives that have been running nearly non-stop for 8 years.
As for your DIVX movies, you could burn the source files to DVD as backup. When you want to encode them for playing on DVD players, you could then restore them to the HDD and cut a new DVD. That would free up quite a bit of space. Of you could go an external drive route and use that to move over your lesser used data. |
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