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    HDD recommendation

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jmhal, Mar 14, 2008.

  1. jmhal

    jmhal Notebook Consultant

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    I'm looking for a 750 GB or 1 TB HDD to store a ton of video on that I'm going to be putting in an external enclosure and want to know if anyone has any recommendations on what brand to go for. Looking at newegg I saw that the prices between samsung, western digital, Hitachi and Seagate are pretty similar and so were the reviews and comments.
     
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  2. michacerboy

    michacerboy Notebook Consultant

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    I cannot recommend any brand, but I do recommend newegg! When I bought my Hitachi 7k200, they had the best price and were pretty cheap with shipping.
     
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I have a Hitachi deskstar 1000, its a good drive, sometimes my power supply for my external cannot start it, it is rated for up to 500Gb, but the 1Tb drive requires more power.
    make sure the enclosure is rated for 1TB harddrives.

    K-TRON
     
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  4. jmhal

    jmhal Notebook Consultant

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    K-TRON thanks for that, almost forgot to check.

    also, would it be worth it to buy an expresscard to eSATA adapter to connect the HDD through (a lot of the newer enclosures have eSATA ports). would this be faster than usb 2.0 ?
     
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  5. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    I use a Seagate Barracuda 1TB hard drive in an eSATA Enclosure from Vantec. Seagates are generally more expensive because of their slightly longer warranty.

    AS for eSATA yes, it'll be much faster than USB. USB tops out at about 20MBps where as eSATA is SATA, so there will be no bottleneck and will run as fast or likely even faster than your built-in harddrive
     
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