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Another need help buying a hard drive

Pghpooh

Pghpooh

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Overkill?
Bought a Dell refurbished desktop a few months ago and it has a 1tb hard drive.
I want to add a second drive for backup, storage, etc.
I went to the Newegg site and found this one.
WD, 1tb, etc.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136284
Is this overkill???

I just use the pc for internet, some spread sheet work and storing files and pictures and music for the rest of the family.
 
A WD "Black" might be a little overkill if you don't plan on loading an OS on it, but it's a good solid HD with a nice long warranty.
I just installed a WD 1TB (64MB cache) Black in my main machine.
It feels quite snappy. I cloned my exhisting HD over to the 1TB Black, so the extra snappiness can't be attributed to fresh Windows load.
 
The cheapest 1TB drives at Newegg are only $20 less. They also are slower and have two years less warranty. Frankly, I think that WD HD is a pretty good value.

If you find it is faster than the Dell's current 1TB HD, clone it over to the new drive and use the old one for back up.

The real question is if you really need 1TB. If you don't you could buy a 500GB drive, clone your current boot drive to it, and use the 1TB for back up. But even that only saves you about $40.

I think the numbers are too small to worry about. Buy the Western Digital Black 1TB HD.

-KeithP
 
It'd certainly be a good idea to have a 1 TB or larger disk for making backups of your main 1 TB disk, if you don't keep backups online or elsewhere.
 
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