I am having space problems and I want to buy a 3.5" hdd, 1TB. My budget for this is ultra-low, up to 60 euros. In the summer I intend to buy an SSD as a primary disk but for now I need some space.
Which companies are the most reliable?
Is there a noticeable difference between 32mb cache and 64mb cache?
Is there a noticeable difference in speed between these standard conventional hdds? Like for example, is that Western Digital "black" line of hdds really faster? Or just marketing bs?
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I added a poll. 5 disks that are all (unless I made a mistake) 1TB, 7200rpm, 64mb cache at around the same price. The last two are a few euros more expensive.
hard to say, personally i always used only samsung (and seagate samsung drives). had one failure in the last ~20 years, but no complete death and instant replacement from samsung via ups express (that was a 160gb sata1 drive 10 years ago, or even older, the replacement still works as backup drive)
build some wd drives into other pcs, a few died. and a few samsung of friends died. its a lottery. dunno if im just lucky or my air flow suits it (even survived with 2 hitachi deathstars, they still work; used some fans you could screw under the drives back in the days on the deskstars)
I'm on the Caviar Blue myself, can't complain. It isn't a champion of speed but it's been serving me nicely for 5 years (and counting), a honest humble worker
I also have good experience with WD10EZEX. Two of them in my computer for three years, one in sister's computer, and I also recommended purchase to several colleagues - no problems so far.
One thing I've noticed with 10ezex is that it got loud after like 4 or 5 years.
It was whisper quiet qhen I bought it. Speed is sitll the same thoguh.
There is no 2gb version? 1tb is not much these days
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Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
Since steam and 200mbit internet connections, large > 2TB hdds only find purpose in my server, with movies, personal cloud and backup.
The latest Hdd I bought for my PC was that WD10EZEX, no issues so far.
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Now when it comes I will want to clone/move the whole main partition of my current drive which is 320gb into the new one and boot Windows (8.1 x64) from that one instead of the old hdd. Any ideas?
Now when it comes I will want to clone/move the whole main partition of my current drive which is 320gb into the new one and boot Windows (8.1 x64) from that one instead of the old hdd. Any ideas?
Be careful with Clonezilla... In basic mode got funky clones two times while doing smaller into larger drive cloning. Drive got cloned into the middle of the larger drive. On partition map there was unpartitioned space to the left and to the right So, in order to resize the target drive, partitions must first be moved to the side but that would take many more time than to reclone
Also, in order to get 100% full clone "GUID partition table (GPT) identifier" / "master boot record (MBR) signature of a disk" must also be cloned. Many tools don't do that. So, recommend you to get the id via diskpart, so you can set it manually later.
Be careful with Clonezilla... In basic mode got funky clones two times while doing smaller into larger drive cloning. Drive got cloned into the middle of the larger drive. On partition map there was unpartitioned space to the left and to the right So, in order to resize the target drive, partitions must first be moved to the side but that would take many more time than to reclone
Also, in order to get 100% full clone "GUID partition table (GPT) identifier" / "master boot record (MBR) signature of a disk" must also be cloned. Many tools don't do that. So, recommend you to get the id via diskpart, so you can set it manually later.
Clonezilla is like any other tool. Yes you can do a lot of damage if you don't know what you are doing. That's why these video tutorials can be useful for beginners. Checking the tutorials before actually doing anything is highly recommended.
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I got the drive yesterday and did the migration, all seems good
For anyone interested, I installed a cracked version of EaseUS Partition Manager and used the Migrate OS option, restarted and waited a couple of hours for the cloning to finish, then after Win loaded I did a "shutdown -s -t 0", disconnected the old drive and connected the new drive to the SATA 0 port. I booted, the EaseUS boot loader did some 1-time operation, after Win loaded I shitdown the PC and connected the old drive to SATA 1.
Oh, yeah, at some point I also resized the partition to use the full 1 TB. And now at some point I will fully erase the old drive and use it as a torrent dump.
I also discovered that because of Win 8's hybrid shutdown fuckery, you may have to do a restart so that the nealy connected drive appears in Disk Management. That's why I did full shutdowns with the -s parameter later.
Also, Windows and some apps have used the serial of the primary HDD in their licence gayness obviously, so I had to reactivate Directory Opus and Windows now shows me an activation watermark. Silly Microcock, you gon' get raped
just threw out my old 640gb samsung drive, got a hitachi 2tb drive very very cheap, 4 years old but only 100hrs runtime. good enough for data storage stuff. now 3x2tb + 1x1tb + 256gb ssd + 128gb ssd ^^ think the next step is to replace the 1tb drive with another 2tb and the 128gb ssd with a 512gb one
So I rebuilt pc in new case Fractal define C and noticed something.
With all fans in case off. Even on cpu, gpu and psu, there is quite loud dry hum.
It is my wd10ezex. Sure I got it in like 2011 but it just loud.
Would new wd10ezex be quieter? What are my most silent options? I would go for 500gb ssd but they are still too expensive
Edit: nvm ordered seagate firecuda 1tb sshd. Its new not much reviewed drive. 5 years of warranty so seagate seems to be betting on it
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SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
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