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Seagate 2TB 5900 RPM any good?

I'd stay away. Get Samsung HD204UI or Hitachi 5K3000. Both can be had for less than this on the web and should be more reliable, at least IME.
 
hmm.. whats funny is its a lp drive which means its the 5900 rpm drive, but the specs on the best buy page says 7200rpm hmm.......
 
What's a good place to order HDDs from, such as that Samsung, that packs it well, and also the best shipping to use if there's an option?

I was hoping to buy a HDD from the local store to avoid shipping damage...
 
I bought one on sale for 79.95 and figured at that price I could'nt go wrong.

Perfectly stabile and all.. but just too damned slow for my taste. That's what you get with 4 platters and 5900RPM though.
 
The speed decrease from 5900 RPM shouldn't be noticable, and the lower number of cylinders should make 4 platters faster than a drive with 2 or 3 platters, provided all other factors are identical.
 
the 2TB barracuda green is a 3 platter drive at 5900RPM. i have one, and it is capable of 125 MB/s sequential read and write. basically, think of it as a faster version of the WD caviar green 2TB.
 
That is a good hard drive. Like it more than my WD Greens and plan to slowly replace the WD Greens with Seagates.

However, if I can buy it in Canada for $65, I think you paid too much.
 
bryanl said:
The speed decrease from 5900 RPM shouldn't be noticable, and the lower number of cylinders should make 4 platters faster than a drive with 2 or 3 platters, provided all other factors are identical.
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assume the same capacity and same RPM, a three platter 2TB drive is faster than a four platter 2TB drive. this is because of the higher data density of the former, which leads to more data being read/written per spin.

case in point, the new caviar blue 500GB (1 platter) is quite literally twice as fast as the old caviar blue 500GB (2 platters), because of the former's use of 1 500GB platter vs the latter's 2x 250GB platters.
 
Today Fry's has the 7200 rpm Hitachi 2TB XL USB external on sale for $65.

I have one that Ive been using for quite awhile and really like it. If you dont want to use it in the enclosure then there is a YouTube Vid that shows you how to open the enclosure to extract the hardware.
 
moriz said:
assume the same capacity and same RPM, a three platter 2TB drive is faster than a four platter 2TB drive. this is because of the higher data density of the former, which leads to more data being read/written per spin.

case in point, the new caviar blue 500GB (1 platter) is quite literally twice as fast as the old caviar blue 500GB (2 platters), because of the former's use of 1 500GB platter vs the latter's 2x 250GB platters.
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Possible, but it depends on the exact numbers (track density, # of platters), and there shouldn't be much difference between 500GB and 667GB platters, especially since seek time isn't exactly proportional to seek distance (more tracks covered/sec with longer distances). Imperfect analogy: short stroking.
 
For gaming, I'd recommend using 7200rpm drives, just get a couple 1TB's, the price gap on the 2TB and 3TB for 5400->7200 is bigger on those. 5400/5900 is fine for storage/sequential read/write but not great for games (load time/swaps).
 
What about the Samsung HDDs? Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1 TB, EcoGreen F4 HD204UI 2TB, or Spinpoint F4EG HD155UI 1.5TB? All good prices, all good reviews, but especially on the later two, and some on the first one, there are reports of needing firmware upgrades.

Is that hard to do if needed?
 
Samsung and the Spinpoint series have had generally good reviews, and are commonly used in home NAS builds over at the [H] forums. They will be slow for an OS/apps/game drive as pointed out.
 
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