Newegg has the Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA Hard Drive (WD3000HLHX) for $70 with free shipping. This drive boasts sustained data transfer rates of 145MB/s and a MTBF of 1.4 million hours. Comes with a 5 year limited warranty. SSDs this size typically go for around $170.
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"SSDs this size typically go for around $170", and SSDs are 3-4 times faster, run much cooler and quieter, and can fit in a laptop. Not much point in a comparison. If you need more space or are tight on funds, get an HDD. If you want blazing speed, silence, and better thermals, get an SSD.
If you want the drive to die faster get a SSD. I still believe HDD is still the way to go.
600gb was on sale, now 300gb, maybe the 1tb drive on sale next?
These drives are pointless. SSD for a laptop, SSD + a Green Drive for a desktop.
Not necessarily pointless, if you need more capacity than you can get for $70 from an SSD, it's a nice tradeoff. Sure you can buy both a SSD and a green drive, that's a good option too but one that could cost twice as much.
I still think CRTs are more reliable too. Horses don't require petroleum. Waging war in a skirmish is pretty great too.
See? I can like old, antiquated, out of date concepts too. Aren't I great?
this is indeed a dinosaur.
See? I can like old, antiquated, out of date concepts too. Aren't I great?
The thing is, if we only think "what if", the end is nowhere in sight.
Yes you could get one SSD and one mechanical drive for storage, but what if you instead get three SSDs? What if you raid those, then get some more SSDs and raid those too? Wouldn't it be kinda antiquated to rely on any mechanical storage when you can just throw $1000 at a capacity you could have had for $60 from a HDD before the floods, just so you can feel modern?
What if you had one SSD, one 10K RPM HDD, one 7200 RPM HDD, and one 5400 RPM green? Nope, not enough staggering, add 2 x RAIDed SSD, then one non-raid SSD, then the mechanical HDDs.
Your really NEED a second external enclosure to house all of your hard drives. Be sure to throw in some MFM & RLL hard drives into the mix.
Hey guys, have you heard about this new, fast hard drive technology? It's called SCSI! /slowpoke
I have the samsung 830 as the primary drive and the 600 GB version of this as the storage drive, this drive is pretty fast I got up to 350 MB/s on my first write test.
Silly me. I forgot that you need all of that space and you need to save money because of all of the money you had to spend to fill it up. I mean, since you paid for all of the music, movies and pornography that you'll store there it does make sense that you save a few bucks on the storage medium itself.