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Débuté par MarchWaltz , oct. 07 2013 02:40

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MarchWaltz
Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 02:40

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 So I am looking to upgrade my hard drive. I know November is around the corner and I CAN wait, but this morning I got a discount code for new egg. I can get 4tb hard-drive for 163 (with tax). My question is is that a good price-point for that amount of data? I am willing to wait for the novemember sale, I just don't know how good it is in respect to hard-drives.

This is the hard-drive in question.  I have been looking at others and it is scary to see so many of the hard drives get bad reviews...I never had a problem with any of my hard-drives.

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

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Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 02:45

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That sounds like a fantastic price. A 2TB drive is around 100 dollar, so 4 TB for 163 sounds pretty great.

And I've never had a problem with Seagate myself.

Black Friday (or Cyber Monday I suppose) has good sales. I honestly don't know if they'll have anything as good as that, but the fact that Newegg is DOING this sale makes me think that prices WILL be cheaper during BF/CB...but I don't know. That's just speculation.

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JerZey CJ
Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 02:45

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Dude, the hell do you need 4tb for? People were telling me that 1tb was overkill when /i was getting help with my build.

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Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 03:31

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JerZeyCJ2 wrote...

Dude, the hell do you need 4tb for? People were telling me that 1tb was overkill when /i was getting help with my build.


Yeah but its cheap right now, so why not? I recently found out Western Digital was selling 2TBs at $150, pretty cheap at least for Western Digital. 

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bmwcrazy
Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 03:48

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Yup, I'd totally get it. Bigger is better.

The only downside of that Seagate is that it spins at 5900 RPM, but I doubt you can find a 7200 RPM 4TB HDD that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Before you do that, just make sure your motherboard supports HDDs larger than 2.2TB. If you are on Windows and you want to use it as a secondary drive, you only need to make sure you have a 64-bit Windows Vista/7/8, but if you want to boot from the drive, the motherboard also needs to support EFI.

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Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 04:08

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4TB for 160 bucks is a fantastic prize indeed.

But with only 5900 RPM, the reading and writing performance will be "eco" aswell. For storing and reading standard document files, music and videos it will be nough, no problem, but if you expect performance ...



But as I doubt you need 4TB for high performance storage, you're good to go.

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MarchWaltz
Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 05:51

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I'm replacing my old hard-drive with it. I can't foresee problems with gaming, other than recording gameplay. Will it slow it down somehow? I currently run on 7200 RPM.

It will hurt gaming? I don't want more storage if it will affect my gameplay in anyway.

There is also this, 1 less TB but with the same RPM as my old hard-drive, and only 6 dollars more (after taxes and promo code). I'm basically asking will I notice the diff in RPM.

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

Modifié par MarchWaltz, 07 octobre 2013 - 05:58 .

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Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 06:00

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Hmm...

I personally would go for 7200--I didn't see that that was 5900.

I'm not one of those guys who thinks you need a Raptor 10,000 RPM hard drive, or even an SSD, but 7200 is pretty basic.

Your call in the end.

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Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 06:05

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MarchWaltz wrote...

It will hurt gaming? I don't want more storage if it will affect my gameplay in anyway.



Well, in HDDs a slower RPM basicly means slower average access. For gaming that would mean slower loading times. Exactly how profound an impact that would be depends on how much data you have to load.

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Eurypterid
Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 07:45

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In addition to what Neofelis said, a large hard drive will have files scattered all over the place, unless you defrag regularly. And if you have a lot of data/installs on the drive, it will be deeper into the disc and therefore slower to access. If you're concerned about gaming, I'd recommend a separate, smaller drive for the OS, one for games, and one for everything else. Of course, that will mean a greater expense.

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MarchWaltz
Posté 07 octobre 2013 - 09:19

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Thanks for making me a bit wiser everyone.

I decided to wait for November deals.
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