Picking the Right HDD

nani17

I'm looking into getting a new HDD since my internal one is only a 160gb bit small.

Now the one i had in mind was the new Western Digital Sata 6gb hard drive(i have a sata 6gb mobo) but i recently came across a youtube video and in the comments a few people said "why is it sata 3 since it doesn't even max out sata2 speed.

So does anyone know anything about this HDD and sata 3 or should i pick any HDD?

PogMoThoin

Any. Those are the speeds of the connection to the board, the hard drive will be many times slower than that. What size drive do You need?

nani17

650 up to 1TB I'm just looking for something faster then what i have Seagate Barracuda i think it's sata 1

This is the one i had in mind

http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/5041462/art/western-digital/caviar-black-wd1002faex-3.html

PogMoThoin

You can do better than that, Samsung F3 1TB:
http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/4121963/art/samsung/spinpoint-f3-desktop-clas.html

Samsung F3 1.5TB:
http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/2506248/art/samsung/hd154ui-ecogreen-f2-hard.html

Or the faster F1 1TB:
http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/666541/art/samsung/spinpoint-f1-desktop-clas.html

Sata 300/600 makes no difference when the hd never reaches anywhere near these speeds

nani17

Yeah that's what people said you'll never reach those speeds.

So the SAMSUNG SpinPoint F1 is the best in you opinion (beside the VelociRaptors to much imo)

PogMoThoin

nani17 wrote: »

Yeah that's what people said you'll never reach those speeds.

So the SAMSUNG SpinPoint F1 is the best in you opinion (beside the VelociRaptors to much imo)

For storage, Yes. Velociraptors are overpriced. If You want better speeds, SSD is the way to go, put just Your OS on an SSD and use mechanical drives for storage. SSD's are smaller than the 160GB You already got, I got a 40GB

nani17

Would this be better then the f1


http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/4546583/art/western-digital/caviar-green-1-tb-64-mb-s.html

PogMoThoin

No, caviar green is the economy one, same as the Samsung F3

nani17

So it's a fight between the F1 and the caviar black .