That is the risk of buying something new on the market. The smaller drives have been around for a while so most or all of the kinks have been resolved. The 1 TB are too new so they are experiencing "teething problems".
1 terabyte question
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i would buy http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=019453&cid=HDD.443.877
its a good price and is regular 130 elsewhere .
its a good price and is regular 130 elsewhere .
I'd be reluctant to buy Seagate: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9126280/Complaints_flood_Seagate_over_hard_drive_problems
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Buy a SATA enclosure and Seagate or other reputable drive....forget those all in one units.
Notorious for failures and that's the last thing you want
Notorious for failures and that's the last thing you want
Do you need to redundancy?
Consider how valuable the data is that you'll be storing. I recently purchased a DLINK DNS-323 NAS device and two Seagate 1.5 TB drives. The NAS is configured for Raid-1 so at least if one drive dies, the data will still be available until I can get a drive to replace the defective one. The array will then rebuild automatically.
Over the last 15 years that I've been in the IT business. I've probably seen about 5 or 6 personal drives die (WD, Seagate, Hitachi) and dozens of others at work.
You still really need to back up your data to something else, at least DVD, which has it's own problems (longevity). I recently bought a BluRay burner. for my media center which is how I store multiple copies of my critical data now.
Consider how valuable the data is that you'll be storing. I recently purchased a DLINK DNS-323 NAS device and two Seagate 1.5 TB drives. The NAS is configured for Raid-1 so at least if one drive dies, the data will still be available until I can get a drive to replace the defective one. The array will then rebuild automatically.
Over the last 15 years that I've been in the IT business. I've probably seen about 5 or 6 personal drives die (WD, Seagate, Hitachi) and dozens of others at work.
You still really need to back up your data to something else, at least DVD, which has it's own problems (longevity). I recently bought a BluRay burner. for my media center which is how I store multiple copies of my critical data now.
This is the best advice.
Both Seagate and WD have been experiencing higher failure rates than normal with 1 TB drives and larger.
Get a pair of either and set them up for Raid-1 and you will be protected best.
Thanks, I think I'll wait a bit. I'm leaning towards western dig. I almost forgot about the post, lol. I figure a month from now the drives will be even cheaper. It's going to be an internal desktop drive, not an external for backup but a main drive. Yeah I know about Canada computers most of my shit is from there.
I suspect that the prices are dropping because the older traditional HD will be replaced by the new solid state HD. (Ever notice how the price of DVD recorders went from $600 to under $100 in the space of 2 years. Same thing is happening with HD.) The traditional HD is now "old technology" past its best before date.
Hopefully the same will happen with SSDs.
Prices are dropping and they are working out a few bugs yet.
Toshiba has 320GB SSDs and plan to have 500GB drives next year but they are still very expensive. Intel is even jumping in and planning to make them.
Prices are dropping and they are working out a few bugs yet.
Toshiba has 320GB SSDs and plan to have 500GB drives next year but they are still very expensive. Intel is even jumping in and planning to make them.
Don't be the first on the block to buy one. Give it a bit of time to iron out the bugs and once the masses start buying the price will drop significantly. This is always the case with electronics. DVD players and recorders are the classic example.
Does anyone on the Board actually own one of these SSD's right now?
Consider this
Please consider having two separate harddrives.
Have a small fast drive as your operating system (primary) drive. WD Raptors are fast. 40GB or so is fine.
Use the huge drive for your data (slave or secondary drive).
That way when you have to defrag your primary drive because Windows loaded itself with crap and slowed to a crawl, it wont take forever, and your data will be safe from Windows reload screw-ups.
Please consider having two separate harddrives.
Have a small fast drive as your operating system (primary) drive. WD Raptors are fast. 40GB or so is fine.
Use the huge drive for your data (slave or secondary drive).
That way when you have to defrag your primary drive because Windows loaded itself with crap and slowed to a crawl, it wont take forever, and your data will be safe from Windows reload screw-ups.
Or buy a Windows Home Server and you won't have to worry about your data, whether you rebuild your PC or not
