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| 1332190 | 2013-03-11 00:27:00 | HI guys I am building a new PC for a small business. Single user, only a small contractor with not many jobs per month. So it will not need to be too powerful. Just Word, accounting and spreadsheets and backups I was thinking of getting a 1TB hard drive Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm Do you think it is worth paying a bit more and getting a higher spec'd hard drive ? Eg faster rpm? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1332191 | 2013-03-11 00:30:00 | That maybe the same hdd I'm using now (if its the ST31000528AS. Nothing wrong with it. But if you get the same hdd, it may pay to update the firmware on it (It's up to CC49 now) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1332192 | 2013-03-11 01:03:00 | Seagate still has firmware issues now? | bk T (215) | ||
| 1332193 | 2013-03-11 01:10:00 | There were updates for this one after I had brought it thats about 18 mths - 2 yrs ago now | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1332194 | 2013-03-11 01:20:00 | Any reason why you wouldn't just buy an off the shelf business desktop, the likes of an HP 6200 Pro. About the same price as a build and have a 3 year on-site warranty. What ever you buy, make sure you get a second drive big enough to back it up. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1332195 | 2013-03-11 01:21:00 | Any 7200RPM mechanical hard drive is fine. Seagate's warranty on their standard drives is pretty poor these days. For a business, if the budget doesn't extend to a SSD, I would spend a little more and get a Western Digital Black drive. larger cache, and 5 year warranty. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1332196 | 2013-03-11 01:53:00 | I'll second what Wratterus said. If it's not SSD, it's Western Digital, and the Black HDDs aren't actually much more expensive. I'm a huge SSD fan though... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1332197 | 2013-03-11 01:57:00 | Seagate won me back a few months ago. One of their 750GB Barracuda's died on me, and it had a crud load of important work on it. Without a cent leaving my bank account, and all within 2 weeks, they arranged to pick up the drive, sent it to their HQ in Thailand, diagnosed it after I was sure that the controller board died (which they confirmed), replaced the board, performed data recovery and sent the HDD back to me. That's the best customer support I've had from ANY company in ANY industry - ever. |
Jams (1051) | ||
| 1332198 | 2013-03-11 02:06:00 | Agree with above comments, for any user backups are a good Idea but for a business I'd call it mandatory. Best practice is an external backup device , stored securely or preferably offsite and a regular backup schedule. To get serious you'd keep 2 data backups and a system image with each. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1332199 | 2013-03-11 02:18:00 | Agree with above comments, for any user backups are a good Idea but for a business I'd call it mandatory. Best practice is an external backup device , stored securely or preferably offsite and a regular backup schedule. To get serious you'd keep 2 data backups and a system image with each. The problem with external harddrives - is they have to be manually removed and inserted. Any backup system that isn't fully automatic is prone to error. I like the idea of backup to another drive/external drive and/or to another local computer and to cloud. I have 147 GB being backed up in just this method. No intervention required. |
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