What are the top performing large capacity HDDs currently?

[jdoggg12]

Looking to replace my 3 smaller noisy HD's with a couple 500 or 750 gig hard drives?

I was hoping the deskstar 1TB wouldve come down in price by now b/c i heard it was fast AND quiet...

Thanks for the input!

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
What are the top performing

large capacity HDDs currently?

That aren't ridiculously priced

or loud- ie the raptors

* "Top performing" = Please specify the parameters that you're interested in.
* "Large capacity" = 500GB-1TB?
* "Ridiculously priced" = Lowest cost per GB or lowest cost period?
* "...or loud" = The quietest may not be the "top performing" HD for you.

You've poo-poo'd the Raptors, so all 10K HDs are out for you.

 

[jdoggg12]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
What are the top performing

large capacity HDDs currently?

That aren't ridiculously priced

or loud- ie the raptors

* "Top performing" = Please specify the parameters that you're interested in.
overall perfomance - doesn't have to do anything perfect, but does it all well
* "Large capacity" = 500GB-1TB?
as stated in the OP - 500-750+
* "Ridiculously priced" = Lowest cost per GB or lowest cost period?
price per GB - of course a simila spec'd drive is going tocost more as capacity goes up... but $2/GB is kinda obsense
* "...or loud" = The quietest may not be the "top performing" HD for you.
from the reviews, it seems the deskstar 1TB was quiet, especially given the perormance

You've poo-poo'd the Raptors, so all 10K HDs are out for you.
I poo-poo'd them b/c the performance/$ is really just not there... i've got a 36GB raptor now - its really loud.

My goal for my new system is to have a moderately priced performer thats very quiet... the HD selection is giving me the biggest headache at the moment.

 

[Blain]

Buy a 1TB Hitachi

 

[LightningRider]

The Seagate 7200.11 1TB's outperform the Hitatchi 1TB's. There is a review of three different 1TB drives from different manufacturers on Toms Hardware and it reviews the Hitatchi 1TB, the Seagate 1TB and the Western Digital GP 1TB.

For pure performance the Seagate wins, the Western Digital I believe has the worst performance but is very power efficient, though I don't think a few Watts difference will mean anything to you. All of the 1TB drives have come down in price, at least on NCIX.com they have.

 

[jdoggg12]

Originally posted by: LightningRider
The Seagate 7200.11 1TB's outperform the Hitatchi 1TB's. There is a review of three different 1TB drives from different manufacturers on Toms Hardware and it reviews the Hitatchi 1TB, the Seagate 1TB and the Western Digital GP 1TB.

For pure performance the Seagate wins, the Western Digital I believe has the worst performance but is very power efficient, though I don't think a few Watts difference will mean anything to you. All of the 1TB drives have come down in price, at least on NCIX.com they have.

Thanks for the info! I think i'm going to go with a 750GB drive, it seems to be a relative good deal between price/storage in a single drive. I'll be picking up at least one, possibly 2... $600 is a lot to swallow at once if i buy 2

There's so many model numbers, ST3750640AS and ST3750640NS etc. I don't really understand the difference... which would be better from a overal performance performance standpoint, the 7200.10 or the 7200.11? They both seem to be reasonably quiet, but from what i can see, are similar speed/performance wise.

Thanks again guys!

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
I don't really understand the difference... which would be better from a overal performance performance standpoint, the 7200.10 or the 7200.11? They both seem to be reasonably quiet, but from what i can see, are similar speed/performance wise.

They have the same performance specifications, but the big difference is that the 7200.11 has 32MB cache (though some may not, maybe?) and has a higher platter density which means higher sustained transfer rates.