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Biggest Hard drive you own?

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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby c_hegge » October 16th, 2011, 3:51 pm

WD = Worst Drives (Although I'm using a 320GB WD in my main PC). I prefer seagate, though.
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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby shovenose » October 16th, 2011, 8:47 pm

A bit off topic, but all my 24/7 computers in the closet are currently using Seagate drives. 5 drives in 4 computers...
We'll see how long they last, compared to the 3 WD drives I have in use in my not-24/7-computers (Lenovo laptop, bedside PC, main Dell desktop)

And yes I finally put the compaq in the closet and am using a Dell as my main PC now.
Of course it's a tiny little Optiplex 745 full of KZG caps. But it still works so I'm not going to re-cap it yet...
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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby Klinc » November 17th, 2011, 5:01 am

I get door to door sellers here selling hdds. Since the hdd prices has gone up I bought 4 at the door 2 500gb hdds and 2 160gb hdds for under 30usd lol. Going to sell them again and make a huge profit lol
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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby Kong » November 17th, 2011, 7:25 am

If you don't mind me asking, but where did you get those somewhat awesome prices?

Or are they just some cheap crap? :lol2:
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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby shovenose » November 17th, 2011, 9:17 am

Lol. Are the making counterfeit hard drives now? Lol!
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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby LongRunner » October 20th, 2013, 6:28 am

The biggest one I have that's actually survived a half-decent runtime to date is an ST31000528AS (firmware CC38), but it's only lightly used. It's disappointingly loud when seeking and I put little other than audio/video files on it (mostly DVD rips). The rest goes on two (one for system/programs and one for user data) of what are probably some of the finest desktop drives ever - WD800JD-00LSA0s (80GB/platter, 2 heads, FDB). Not that those couldn't be even better (they lacked load/unload ramps and I could also have had WD800JD-00LUA0s with damped top covers) but I haven't found any serious downside to them, which is more than I can say for pretty much any other drive in existence.
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on. Being an afterthought is no excuse for a bad product.

My PC: Core i3 4130 on GA‑H87M‑D3H with GT640 OC 2GiB and 2 * 8GiB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz, Kingston SA400S37120G and WD3003FZEX‑00Z4SA0, Pioneer BDR‑209DBKS and Optiarc AD‑7200S, Seasonic G‑360, Chenbro PC31031, Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3.
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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby Percy1 » June 22nd, 2014, 11:21 pm

Thanks for the post!
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Re: Biggest Hard drive you own?

Postby LongRunner » June 12th, 2018, 11:01 am

Since 2014, the biggest drives I have are now the WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (3TB Caviar Black; 4TB and 2TB versions are/were also provided).
I actually quite like them (despite their rather loud seeking), as they're much heavier than most ‘new’ drives and seem more reliable too.
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on. Being an afterthought is no excuse for a bad product.

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