1TB Hard Drives

Mooga · 02-10-2009, 07:47 PM

Can anyone recommend a good internal SATA 1TB(+) drive?
I would like to spend under a $100 (USB). I want to finally put ALL my files and media onto one drive in one place. Also, I want to make sure I actually get 1TB of space and not 900GB.

Thanks in advanced.

Once I get it, I can copy all my data over, re-partition my main HDD, and install Vista 64-bit! (XP 64-bit is not all too awesome)

~kev~ · 02-10-2009, 07:52 PM

Hitachi, seagate or western digital all get my vote.

On a side note, my wife and I just bought a 1 tb external seagate USB drive. Frys had them on sale for around $100.

If you want an actual 1 TB, you will need to get a 1.1 TB drive. Because you lose several hundreds megs to formatting. Even though the HD my wife and I bought says 1 TB, its actually 950 gigs - or around something like that.

Mooga · 02-10-2009, 07:55 PM

I forgot to say that I'm looking for an internal Sata drive. However USB is an option.
Newegg or Tiger would be best.. CDW would KICK ASS.

~kev~ · 02-10-2009, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooga

I forgot to say that I'm looking for an internal Sata drive. However USB is an option.
Newegg or Tiger would be best.. CDW would KICK ASS.

The new drive is connected to my wifes mini tower. She does a lot of photography stuff, so I decided to connect it to her computer. I will just network a shared folder from my computer to the new drive. And, I dont need her hitting my system moving pictures around while I'am playing FF.

We bought the mini tower for her last week, and the drive a few days later. We just connected the external drive to her old system, moved everything over. Then plugged the external drive up to her new computer.

Her mini tower did not have a spare bay for an internal drive, so we went with an external drive because of a physical limitation.

==== EDIT ===

Those external drives are really just an SATA drive in a housing.

**mervaka** · 02-10-2009, 08:23 PM

get a caviar.

Demasu · 02-10-2009, 10:17 PM

I have a MAXTOR 1TB hard drive, and it's been doing fine. It was a little over $100 originally, but you can find drives that big for less if you look around a little bit. Fry's would be a good place to look, and so would newegg. You're going to want a drive that's advertised as being over 1TB, because even with formatting, for some reason, all drives I've seen lately use literal figures in their size calculation. So instead of being 1 terabyte(10,099,511,627,776 bytes), you get 1 literal terabyte(which is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. 931.32257 gigabytes as opposed to 1024). I don't know why that is, but you're going to have to factor that in to your decision. So I'd go for a 1.5TB hard drive, and I've seen one for under $100, I just don't remember where.

02-10-2009, 07:47 PM	#1
Mooga Colorless FTW D&A Member Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: A Small Box Affiliations: SRCDS.com Posts Rated Helpful 1 Times	1TB Hard Drives Can anyone recommend a good internal SATA 1TB(+) drive? I would like to spend under a $100 (USB). I want to finally put ALL my files and media onto one drive in one place. Also, I want to make sure I actually get 1TB of space and not 900GB. Thanks in advanced. Once I get it, I can copy all my data over, re-partition my main HDD, and install Vista 64-bit! (XP 64-bit is not all too awesome) __________________ ~ Mooga ...w00t? SRCDS.com \| Twitter Last edited by Mooga; 02-10-2009 at 07:53 PM. Reason: Internal and Sata

02-10-2009, 07:55 PM	#3
Mooga Colorless FTW D&A Member Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: A Small Box Affiliations: SRCDS.com Posts Rated Helpful 1 Times	I forgot to say that I'm looking for an internal Sata drive. However USB is an option. Newegg or Tiger would be best.. CDW would KICK ASS. __________________ ~ Mooga ...w00t? SRCDS.com \| Twitter

02-10-2009, 10:17 PM	#6
Demasu Official FF Medic Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	I have a MAXTOR 1TB hard drive, and it's been doing fine. It was a little over $100 originally, but you can find drives that big for less if you look around a little bit. Fry's would be a good place to look, and so would newegg. You're going to want a drive that's advertised as being over 1TB, because even with formatting, for some reason, all drives I've seen lately use literal figures in their size calculation. So instead of being 1 terabyte(10,099,511,627,776 bytes), you get 1 literal terabyte(which is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. 931.32257 gigabytes as opposed to 1024). I don't know why that is, but you're going to have to factor that in to your decision. So I'd go for a 1.5TB hard drive, and I've seen one for under $100, I just don't remember where. __________________ Some ER Trauma Doctor: Which way did he point the gun? Was it towards the front of your face or the back of your face? ...and you wonder why I love doctors.

02-10-2009, 07:52 PM	#2
~kev~ pmagnvs Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: East Texas Class/Position: Engineer - D Gametype: Free for all CTF - no stupid clan rules Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Hitachi, seagate or western digital all get my vote. On a side note, my wife and I just bought a 1 tb external seagate USB drive. Frys had them on sale for around $100. If you want an actual 1 TB, you will need to get a 1.1 TB drive. Because you lose several hundreds megs to formatting. Even though the HD my wife and I bought says 1 TB, its actually 950 gigs - or around something like that.

02-10-2009, 08:23 PM	#5
mervaka A Very Sound Guy! Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: May 2005 Location: UK Posts Rated Helpful 15 Times	get a caviar.

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