400GB to big?

[HybridSquirrel]

I was just pondering about my hdd, its 400 gig hitachi sata drive and i am starting to think it might be to big. i have it partitioned to c:80 d:320 and i dunno if i can fill up all that space, and performance it might be a little slow? i didnt look at specs because i got it from work but anyway what do you think is it too big? should i go down to a 250 maybe? eh whatever

Model number:HDS72040KLSA80

cant find any english website with specs to it

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

You'll fill it up eventually. Just a matter of time.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

There's no such thing as too big. Just too expensive. Get what you can, because you'll what you need will always change.

 

[Markbnj]

I've got a WD 400 gig in my system now, formatted to around 356 gigs I think. It doesn't seem slow to me.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Actually, the higher capacity hard drives have good performance, because of the higher density... And partitioning a hard drive certainly own't make it slower.

 

[poisonthewell]

put on your flame retardant clothing - i'm sure the 40-80gb hdd owners here can really relate

 

[RaiderJ]

Interesting. I just put 4 of those exact drives in a RAID 5, and I was wondering how long they would last me!

Let's hear it for hard drives!

 

[0roo0roo]

too big?fine get 2 200gb and raid mirror

 

[BlacKJesuS]

I got a 200 gig that i thought was too big....and i filled up 150gigs in 3 days :\

 

[Azndude51]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
There's no such thing as too big. Just too expensive...

QFT

I could have a TB more of storage, and it still woulnd't be too big for me.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I wouldn't trust a big drive, if it fails you loose everything. I'd rather have 2 200 gbs than 1 400...

 

[pikachu656]

You can never have a drive that's "too big". You'll fill it up eventually.

 

[caz67]

Originally posted by: pikachu656
You can never have a drive that's "too big". You'll fill it up eventually.

Exactly.

 

[letdown427]

I don't actually understand, like, too big? How can that possibly be an issue? You got it from work, so price is irrelevant. Therefore, just get what you can. Like, say right now you only need 200Gb, so, you can use that. And not the other 200Gb. Then in a while, a few years maybe, when you have 24mb broadband and you stream all your tv shows and save them on your hard disk, you'll be glad you have that other 200Gb you havn't been using. It's not like you're pc is going to see 400Gb and think, "aawww, sh!t, where'd I put that darned operating system? Damn. Lost it. Curse this huge harddisk"

Sorry but this does just seem the oddest thread i've ever seen.

Basically, you're answer is: No.

EDIT: And another thing, What of your old harddisk? I presume that felt faster, as otherwise you probably wouldn't have anything valid to compare this one too. If it did feel faster, or even was faster, just keep using that as normal, and use the 400Gb as storage. Where is the problem?

 

[GamerExpress]

It's never too big!!

 

[Burner27]

I have 3 x 400GB HDDs and 1 x 500GB HDD. I can fill up a 400GB HDD in 6-8 days now that I have FIOS.

You can never have enough space.

 

[Sunbird]

Yeah, its definately too big, get a smaller drive and send the big one to me, I'll take care of the "evil" big hard drive

 

[islandtechengineers]

as others have stated... never to big.... start loading it with mp3's and dvds if you want to fill it.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: djmihow
I wouldn't trust a big drive, if it fails you loose everything. I'd rather have 2 200 gbs than 1 400...

wouldn't that be twice as likely to loose at least half of your data?

 

[Trente]

You can never have enough HD space.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

wow thanks for the replys its helped me out. btw i got this drive for free from work ^_^ and it seems to be working out fine so far. its crashed a few times and task manager doesnt work, bad image name or something. well thanks again

 

[Looney]

Or get 2x200GB instead, and RAID1 them. I can't believe people are putting hundreds and even terrabytes of storage and not having some sort of RAID5 or backup.

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: HybridSquirrel
wow thanks for the replys its helped me out. btw i got this drive for free from work ^_^ and it seems to be working out fine so far. its crashed a few times and task manager doesnt work, bad image name or something. well thanks again

Uhmm.... So you got it from work???

Do they know this?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: rbV5

Originally posted by: djmihow
I wouldn't trust a big drive, if it fails you loose everything. I'd rather have 2 200 gbs than 1 400...

wouldn't that be twice as likely to loose at least half of your data?

Less likely to lose is all in one go though.

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: rbV5

Originally posted by: djmihow
I wouldn't trust a big drive, if it fails you loose everything. I'd rather have 2 200 gbs than 1 400...

wouldn't that be twice as likely to loose at least half of your data?

Less likely to lose is all in one go though.

I think he means 2x200 for RAID 1?