My current 500GB HDD is maxing out & running sluggish, so im in need of something bigger, faster & more reliable without spending too much on
Iv been interested in one of these for a while now and this seems to be the cheapest price as for now.
1TB WD VelociRaptor HDD $229 @ Computer Alliance
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Or a 500GB SSD for ~$50 more: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c…
Hard to recommend Velociraptors these days, they are loud, high-power and expensive, but slow compared to SSDs.
So the OP clearly said "My current 500GB is maxing out" and "So im in need of something bigger…", and then you suggest they buy the same size hard drive?
I think it's a crap "deal" too, but come on use some common sense! Link up the 1TB if you wanna make comparisons…
Why not recommend a 500Gb SSD drive to install the operating system and all required programs and apps, then use the old drive as storage? Obviously the OP has never had an SSD or experienced the benefits.
Or a 120GB SSD plus 2x1TB drives in RAID0. - and have change left over towards some RAM.
no dont do this, 3TB drives have a very high failure rate
OK, 2TB and get 240GB SSD.
The 4x 3TB WD Red drives in my NAS with 18500+ hrs run time each say that they don't have that bad a failure rate..
There's also a 2GB WD Green in there with just under 32000 hrs run time still going strong.
In annual terms, 2.7% or the drives failed in 2012, 5.4% failed in 2013 and 47.2% failed in 2014.
As of March 31, 2015, 1,423 of the 4,829 deployed Seagate 3TB drives had failed, that’s 29.5% of the drives."That may be with Seagate's drives but these are the WD Reds i've been running:
18500 hrs ~ 770 continuous days
31000 hrs ~ 1333 continous days@chrysilis: I have personal experience with 2x 3TB drives that failed within six months of each other. Fortunately they were mirrored, so apart from the cost of replacing with WD Green drives, no impact.
+1 ^^^^ I've got 3 running in mine and all sweet. Although I got my partner to pick them up for me and the sales person was grilling her that she knew these were server/ NAS drives and that she understood the diff. Great story suppose you needed to be there…
The 1tb raptor was introduced in 2012!
I havent seen one of these in a while… thought much faster (and silent) SSD's had all but made them extinct.
Cant argue this is a sharp price tho - next cheapest on SI is $249
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=1tb+VelociRapto…Personally I always go SSD for boot/app drive (where speed matters) and traditional HDD (best value for money) for media storage where speed is not overly important anyway.
It’s a T-REX
They must've known when they named a hdd velociraptor that it will go extinct shortly afterwards.
I still have a 160GB Velociraptor in my cabinet. It was the best HDD before SSDs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEIPRDymsY
I know this is for the older 150GB version which is SATA2, but even the 1TB is slow when compared to any SSD: http://www.legitreviews.com/western-digital-velociraptor-1tb…For 230 you're better off with a 120GB 850 EVO for OS and a 2TB HDD for data. But make sure your motherboard has SATA3 otherwise the transfer rates in/out the SSD will be capped around 270MB/s.
Based on the above I can't help but downvote this 'deal'.
who the flap buys mechanical hdds ?
I have 5TB in storage at home, mirrored so that is 10TB of physical storage. The cost to performance ratio is simply not there for SSD.
you dont buy SSD for storage
Correct… Magnetic tape is best…
Huge numbers of people. People who are smart enough to not spend a gazillion dollars on utterly pointless speed for storage of data. #simpleanswers
then if you're buying drives for storage you wouldnt buy a velociraptor 1tb drive would you ? NO
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Can vouch for these are pretty sweet. Yeah not as fast as SSD but at the time it was the right price for decent performance.
Is this the same model used in the new Jurassic Park movie ???
Throw in some cheap DDR RAM while you're at it http://www.netplus.com.au/product/MYDDR400-1024HY/1024Mb_DDR…
Why not get a $120 Intel 535 SSD plus a WD 3TB 7000RPM drive for the same money?