Hi all,
I'm wanting a decent hard drive (1-2TB) cheaply, any ideas where?
Dom
I'm wanting a decent hard drive (1-2TB) cheaply, any ideas where?
Dom
Hard Drives
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where have you looked?
www.ebuyer.com go for a samsung or something maybe? Spinpoint F1 and the like are pretty good. I have got 2 in a RAID in my machine, they should be pretty cheap for 1TB as well, 2TB drives are still quite new, so will pay a fair amount for them
Samsung F3 is a good drive and can be found for under £40 for the 1TB model.
could mean somthing like erm
it has 2 disks inside it
prices change daily. no point looking until you are actually buying
That should be fine, I have two of the F1 type (Previous model) and they are still going strong
Max formatted means something different due to bits and byte differences, its because manufacturers say 1GB = 1000MB (500GB = 500GB) and Microsoft/OS versions see it as 1GB = 1024 MB (Manufacturer 500GB = 488GB Microsoft)
When you format in say windows, you "lose" a proportion of the disk size for Master File Tables, so the "488"GB drive will be about 475 or something, my 1TB drive is something in the region of 950-960GB im pretty sure due to the overheads and different conversions.
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