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400GB to big?

HybridSquirrel

HybridSquirrel

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I was just pondering about my hdd, its 400 gig hitachi sata drive and i am starting to think it might be to big. i have it partitioned to c:80 d:320 and i dunno if i can fill up all that space, and performance it might be a little slow? i didnt look at specs because i got it from work but anyway what do you think is it too big? should i go down to a 250 maybe? eh whatever

Model number:HDS72040KLSA80

cant find any english website with specs to it
 
There's no such thing as too big. Just too expensive. Get what you can, because you'll what you need will always change.
 
I've got a WD 400 gig in my system now, formatted to around 356 gigs I think. It doesn't seem slow to me.
 
Actually, the higher capacity hard drives have good performance, because of the higher density... And partitioning a hard drive certainly own't make it slower.
 
Interesting. I just put 4 of those exact drives in a RAID 5, and I was wondering how long they would last me!

Let's hear it for hard drives!
 
I don't actually understand, like, too big? How can that possibly be an issue? You got it from work, so price is irrelevant. Therefore, just get what you can. Like, say right now you only need 200Gb, so, you can use that. And not the other 200Gb. Then in a while, a few years maybe, when you have 24mb broadband and you stream all your tv shows and save them on your hard disk, you'll be glad you have that other 200Gb you havn't been using. It's not like you're pc is going to see 400Gb and think, "aawww, sh!t, where'd I put that darned operating system? Damn. Lost it. Curse this huge harddisk"

Sorry but this does just seem the oddest thread i've ever seen.

Basically, you're answer is: No.

EDIT: And another thing, What of your old harddisk? I presume that felt faster, as otherwise you probably wouldn't have anything valid to compare this one too. If it did feel faster, or even was faster, just keep using that as normal, and use the 400Gb as storage. Where is the problem?
 
I have 3 x 400GB HDDs and 1 x 500GB HDD. I can fill up a 400GB HDD in 6-8 days now that I have FIOS.

You can never have enough space.
 
Yeah, its definately too big, get a smaller drive and send the big one to me, I'll take care of the "evil" big hard drive 😀
 
Originally posted by: djmihow
I wouldn't trust a big drive, if it fails you loose everything. I'd rather have 2 200 gbs than 1 400...
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wouldn't that be twice as likely to loose at least half of your data?
 
wow thanks for the replys its helped me out. btw i got this drive for free from work ^_^ and it seems to be working out fine so far. its crashed a few times and task manager doesnt work, bad image name or something. well thanks again
 
Or get 2x200GB instead, and RAID1 them. I can't believe people are putting hundreds and even terrabytes of storage and not having some sort of RAID5 or backup.
 
Originally posted by: HybridSquirrel
wow thanks for the replys its helped me out. btw i got this drive for free from work ^_^ and it seems to be working out fine so far. its crashed a few times and task manager doesnt work, bad image name or something. well thanks again
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Uhmm.... So you got it from work???

Do they know this?
 
Originally posted by: rbV5
Originally posted by: djmihow
I wouldn't trust a big drive, if it fails you loose everything. I'd rather have 2 200 gbs than 1 400...
Click to expand...

wouldn't that be twice as likely to loose at least half of your data?
Click to expand...

Less likely to lose is all in one go though.
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: rbV5
Originally posted by: djmihow
I wouldn't trust a big drive, if it fails you loose everything. I'd rather have 2 200 gbs than 1 400...
Click to expand...

wouldn't that be twice as likely to loose at least half of your data?
Click to expand...

Less likely to lose is all in one go though.
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I think he means 2x200 for RAID 1?
 
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