Hard Drive

[Blackthorn]

I'm buying a new hard drive in a few days, something in the 500GB - 1TB range, and I'm wondering if anyone here knows the best to purchase. I'm finding it hard to find any reviews on the web, so does anyone here have any suggestions for a reasonably priced, fast hard drive?

 

[Sedako]

Personally I prefer Western Digital drives, as I've never had any problems with their products. If you are able to use SATA connections, go with this 750gb drive for ?75.79:

http://www.cclonline.com/product-in...gory_id=112&manufacturer_id=82&tid=wd7500aaks

 

[Asus]

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14380/6

One of the fastest would be the WD 640gb. Although the 750 is not too far behind. I have two of those (750gb). They are also very low for noise and power usage.
The 1TB drives from WD and Seagate don't seem to compete performance wise so I'd stick with the 640 or 750 drives. If it's just for storage then check out the 500GB for price.

 

[VirusType2]

I have two of the 750's as well. it clearly outperforms my slightly older 500 by the same brand


think I paid $220 for the first 750 and only about $140 for the second WD 750 about 6 months later. get the OEM one that doesn't come with a disc. You can download the software if you don't already have it.

it doesn't get any cheaper price per GB, at least in the larger drives. It's the best deal going AFAIK

 

[Blackthorn]

Alrighty, by the sounds of it I'll be getting this then. I plan on moving all my data onto the new hard drive as it'll be faster and removing my old one entirely, to save power. Any precautions I should be aware of there?

 

[VirusType2]

it's pretty straight forward.

get the data lifeguard tools software for the drive - get it from WD website

Plug in both drives

check your bios (usually F2 to make sure the drive is recognized)

run the WD lifeguard tools once and make sure the drive is recognized, then format it.

the new one is installed and ready to use...

use the WD data lifeguard tools (software for the drive - get it from WD website)

using the software, do an exact copy of your old drive on it. (might want to defrag the old drive first)


It has little explanations next to each operation, so you can't really mess this up.





anyway, then you can power down and unplug the old drive and you are set.

It will do an exact copy, so your OS and everything else works just as before (probably faster)

 

[Blackthorn]

Awesome. Thanks for the help.

 

[Blackthorn]

I've run into a problem. WD Lifeguard Tools aren't compatible with Vista. I tried running the installer in compatibility mode for XP, and it installed fine, but when I used it to clone the drive it filled up far too much space, around 3 times as much as the original data.

Edit: Solved, used HDClone.