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| Thread ID: 128179 | 2012-12-05 02:48:00 | Buying a new hard drive | drbark (16966) | Press F1 |
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| 1316530 | 2012-12-05 02:48:00 | hi everyone im looking at buying a new hard drive for my computer preferable 3TB. im an art student and my old 1TB just wasn't big enough i have been searching the web and have found a few which i like can you please tell me the pros and cons of the hard drives i have asked a few tech savy friends about this and they say there no good if this is true can you please explain why pricespy.co.nz there recommended i get a WD so i found these pricespy.co.nz the green pricespy.co.nz the red pricespy.co.nz and the black (2TB) so can you guys please tell me which of the above hard drives is the best and if they are all rubbish what is the best alternative i would prefer not not to have the smaller drive but if its the best i wont mind anyway thanks in advance for helping me BTW i live in NZ so all the prices are in NZD |
drbark (16966) | ||
| 1316531 | 2012-12-05 03:07:00 | I'm a big fan of the Western Digital drives myself. If it's just for mass-storage then the Green is fine for most things :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1316532 | 2012-12-05 03:10:00 | my tech savy friend said that has some annoying thing where it always turns of and it takes a few sec for it to respond | drbark (16966) | ||
| 1316533 | 2012-12-05 03:12:00 | First thing I would do is make sure the system supports 2-3 TB hdd's. Not all do, without maybe a BIOS update | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1316534 | 2012-12-05 03:13:00 | red is not necessary unless ur using raid, green is good for mass storage and black is made for constant use. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1316535 | 2012-12-05 03:27:00 | 3TB is a lot of art. | Digby (677) | ||
| 1316536 | 2012-12-05 03:31:00 | well i will be using this new drive a lot for my photo editing and it is aloso where i will store most of my documents my system has Intel i7 2600k 2.40 GHz AMD Radeon HD 6970 8 GB of memory (1333Mhz) |
drbark (16966) | ||
| 1316537 | 2012-12-05 03:34:00 | its not all art i was given lots of programs and tutoring videos when i started my course i also use PhotoShop which has some huge files i am also PhotoShoping lots of family photos so my 1TB was just not cutting it | drbark (16966) | ||
| 1316538 | 2012-12-05 04:08:00 | Seagate is fine (I personally prefer them over WD), WD is fine. WD Green is fine for storage. Unless you're seriously hitting the drive hard, you'd struggle to actually notice the difference between the Green and Black drives imo. If performance is really that important, go SSD, no question. I'd go with the WD Green, because it's probably the cheaper of the 2TB options, while still being a perfectly good drive. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1316539 | 2012-12-05 04:25:00 | red is not necessary unless ur using raid, green is good for mass storage and black is made for constant use. Not quite: the Red drives are designed for NAS use where 24/7 operation is needed, and the Black drives are designed for maximum performance without any regard to power use. Green drives are designed for minumum power consumption and are good for plain storage (but I wouldn't install an OS onto one). |
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