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Amazon has the Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Bare Drive) for $47 with free shipping. Features a 32MB cache and a 3 year warranty.
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Varied reviews on Amazon. What's the story with this drive? Are there a lot of defective units?
4 out of 5 eggs on newegg, that's the same as almost every single HDD on 'egg with more than 100 reviews, 'cept for a couple WD Greens (1.5TB/2TB) which are 3 out of 5 eggs. The main question to me is, is it really worth saving $15 or less to go with 1TB instead of 1.5-2TB? Granted you have to wait for a deal on those to get the best price and most of those are lower than 7K2 RPM.
The Hitachi 1TB 7K2 RPM for $50 deal still works "right now":
http://bensbargains.net/deal/201871/
Amazon has a storied history with how they package their bare drive. Had been looking at a Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1Tb from them but the instance of BS packaging kind of scares me off.
If I've got two 5400RPM drives that are already on the warm side in an HP quad-core case, I'm assuming a 72K is probably something to be concerned about? The machine is a few years old, so not really interested in adding fans or reconfiguring.
Got 2TB for $55 last month from Newegg
#3 Casecutter,
>> but the instance of BS packaging kind of scares me off.
-- BS. Does that stand for Back Street Boys or what? I don't know?
7K2 RPM drives only get a little hotter if/when all else is equal (same model/generation of drive), but what's usually going to matter most in downsized OEM cases is where you put the drive.
I'm thinking of a typical OEM case where there is room for two drives vertically oriented right behind the front case wall, but some have a removable cartridge like cage instead. Adding fans isn't really a big deal though, if it comes to it... when it's time to retire the system, if it is a good quality fan it should be viable for reuse in another system.
However, "warm" isn't a problem for HDDs, yet it would be good to know exactly what the temperatures are... various utilities can tell you HDD temperature. I like to keep them under 50C, but they're not usually going to fail too early if slightly higher.
Another option is to mount in an empty 5.25" bay if you have one, then take the bay blank, case faceplate and put masking tape over it, take a pen and ruler and mark a grid on it to drill uniform holes turning it in to a grill so the case exhaust fans in the rear will draw air in through it and flow past the HDD. Of course another option is ordering a bay cooler.
Thanks #7. The two drives I have are running around 40 normally, 50 if my son is playing an FPS. I've been monitoring the SMART data (they are 4 years old) and they're doing OK (data are backed up)
Thanks also for the advice on fans and mounting. One of the two drives is mounted vertically like you described, the other looks like it's horizontal on the bottom of the case (next to the video card, which is heating it a bit).
#6 - Bull Sh...