Do You Need A 400 GB Hard Drive?

[GAZZA]

Thing that always bothers me with large drive is the bigger the storage the more you lose in one go when your drive craps out, esp when you haven't backed up all your data (sound familiar )

 

[huesmann]

Tru dat.

Do you not need to defrag storage drives? Just boot/app drives?

 

[seanws]

do i need? no. do i want? YES

 

[StarTech]

Originally posted by: StarTech
Do they have this deal at the B&M stores?

I just bought one at the local Compusa. They did not know they had them. After I told them their web site said they had them in stock, they checked inventory and took them five minutes to look for them in three different locked rooms.

A little over $300 after taxes.

Just installed and finished consolidating two SG 120GB drives. Nice drive. Less than 25 decibels.

 

[scoreadeal]

Who needs to defrag their xbox? ;-)

 

[mather]

Originally posted by: GAZZA
Thing that always bothers me with large drive is the bigger the storage the more you lose in one go when your drive craps out, esp when you haven't backed up all your data (sound familiar )

Don't tell us you have all your important data on floppies.

 

[claffeyb]

GAZZA's MAXIM: The bigger the storage, the more you lose in one go when your drive craps out.

Earlier this year I used partionmagic to quickly set up a new WD drive. After it was formatted, I filled the drive completely with stuff from from several drives. The whole thing worked fine for about a week, then the data disappeared. The drive was still good, just the whole drive was empty. Got on the warez newgroups and DLd every drive and file recovery software I could find, but only recovered little fragments here and there - directory structures and a couple files each, mostly all corrupted. Luckily it was all music and audiobook mp3s and box office movie and TV show video files, not porn LOL

Anyway, eventually I re-parted and formatted the drive, using Windows setup and the old slow method. The drive has been fine ever since. Nothing like losing "roughly" 200GB to sober you up though. All I could come up with was that the "quick" format method doesn't lay down as strong of a magnetic "roadway" for the info as the slower formatting. Don't know if that is true, just something to think about. I had heard it from one source in the past, though it escapes me at the moment.

I'm still looking forward to getting a few of these drives though when the price falls.

 

[wchou]

THIS IS NOT HOT, 160GB GO FOR 66.00 SHIPPED AT PRICEWATCH
400GB/280= 1.43GB PER BUCKS
GREAT FOR BRAGS RIGHT, SUCKS IN TERMS OF PRICE PER GB.

280.00 is a lot to pay :|

 

[Shinei]

Yeah, but considering the 400GB drives typically run you $2 a gig, this is a pretty hot deal... Especially with a drive that has a 5 year warranty and is from a reputable dealer/manufacturer.

 

[bittrix]

Um, by my math $280 for 400GB = $0.70/GB Still not the cheapest, but in space/noise/power constrained applications, probably worth it.

 

[claffeyb]

I agree - the price is not hot, but the news of it's release is. Over years of having pcs, I have found that the more drives I hang off a system, the quicker the mo-bd or some hds fail, regardless of how big or how good the ps is, or whether it is a Dell or home-built. I like having only two drives connected now instead of 6, and this is a nice way to do it.

 

[KK]

This will work great in raid5 with 6 of them. 2TB of data with protection. yummm yumm... Now if only they were under $100 a piece.

 

[StarTech]

Originally posted by: CasmirRadon
I remember wondering how I would ever be able to fill my new 4 gig drive. 400 sounds like a good stepping stone for me.

I remember when I replaced my PC AT 20MB drive with a 120MB. How could I ever fill it?

Well... I just got one of these 400giggers. I'll wait till they come down in price to get a second one.

 

[Bozo Galora]

looks like there may be a 16mb vers
also sata is out - but at a big premium

http://forums.storagereview.ne...topic=17037&st=100