Amazon has the Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB 64MB Cache SATA III 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $100 with free shipping. Features GreenPower reduced power consumption technology, low acoustics, and a 2 year warranty.
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I have the smaller model of this and have no complaints for the last two plus years. It does cycle down when not in use so it's not a good idea for a primary drive, but as secondary storage, it's hard to beat.
I want the OS Casper is using, I've never had a Windows primary drive spin down in 10 years though going back far enough I do recall it used to be possible.
Kinda funny this is the case, over 20X as much memory and doing the same tasks doesn't seem to matter. That's progress.
I kinda don't want to post here on Ben's anymore.... too many negative responses to want to be helpful posts....
Why Bother?
I wasn't being negative towards you Casper, just recalling how MS has managed to take massive innovations in PC hardware and largely waste them.
Goodbye #3 but I hope you change your mind. If it will help any, I think you're a swell guy and value your spin down comment and other posts.
#2, stop funn'in on him. He's declared recently that he is now the serious/sensitive type, not the fun loving type anymore like us. We need to grow up...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqVLAvqvb8&feature=relmfu
Dave, he's the friendly ghost, the friendliest ghost I know, so please show respect.
Ideal if you are running a desktop with a SSD as a OS & App drive & you have your documents locations (Windows 7) relocated to one of these drives. I still don't like the price.
With all these latest innovations windows still boots within a minute where new apple is few seconds. Pick any windows version at any time..
Huh...my windows boot in ~10 sec. You must have old hardware. Lol
My system boots in 15 secs. SSD for OS, WD Green for p0rn files. I just have to keep a system image on standby for when the inevitable viruses hit. Still remember when MS used to offer SteadyState free for XP...greatest implement for an OS.....
I have probably owned 20+ hard disks, and had more on work computers. I have only had two crash, both were WDs, the last being as WD15EADS Caviar Green 1.5TB. At least the swap process was pretty easy on their website. Just got the replacement last week.
My XP-64 machine boots in under 30 seconds. I have Win 7 machines that boot faster, but you can't fully use them when you get logged in. They are still configuring networking, loading services, etc. I think the same is true of fast booting Macs.
Back in the olden days, I had to start a small fire under a kettle to generate the steam to get my computer to run. There was no hard drive only aluminum tube rolls to record the data. If a chip went out on the computer, I had to whittle a new one out of wood to replace it...