High Performance 1tb HDD

gaz_jones

Happy new year all

The January sales are here and I'm after a new hard drive for my gaming pc. At the moment I've got a 150GB in there and I desperately need more space. I'm looking for either a 1.5TB or a 1TB. I would like it to be fast though. The one I have at the moment was a budget one because I wanted to get the PC up and running.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good one? Its a 3.5" SATA I'm after.


So far I've found these:

This one which I think is the best but not sure why :rofl:

This one

And this one


Cheers for the advice everyone

fwor

I'm looking for something similar myself.

If you can live with only a 1TB capacity, the Samsung Spinpoint F3 is widely considered to be the fastest available at the moment, and costs around £66-68.

Jakg

All the 1.5TB drives arent massively fast, and all the ones you've linked to are ECO drive and as such arent very fast at all.

I'd recommend either the Seagate 7200.12 1TB drive, or the Samsung F3 - both are about the same level of performance.

gaz_jones

Thanks for the recomendations guys. Looks like the Samsung F3 is the one to go for. Going to have a look for the best price online and order it I think. I can happily live with a 1TB and will just buy another in a few months when I need more space.

Thanks very much for the advice guys

fwor

Please let us know if you find a cheaper supplier than Ebuyer (£66.68 ATM)!

Lawbag_2

Samsung is a reliable manufacturer and Im using one of their 1tb HDD as a RAID 1 set up.

spud17

Usually used for cpus, but have a HD section, but not very comprehensive.

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_list.php

gaz_jones

Ordered it from ebuyer for just over £66. Couldn't find it any cheaper unfortunately. Still though, for what it is, £66 is a very good price

gaz_jones

Just thought I'd update this and say I've got it and had no problems. Partioned into sections for music, video, games etc.... Fast enough and transferring from my original HDD to the new one I'm getting speeds of 40mb/s so not too bad. Didn't take long to copy all my install files over.

JasX

fwor wrote: »

I'm looking for something similar myself.

If you can live with only a 1TB capacity, the Samsung Spinpoint F3 is widely considered to be the fastest available at the moment, and costs around £66-68.

100% support the choice.... I picked one of these up from ebuyer for about £50 when they first came out, presumably before ebuyer had realised it was the fastest around.... naturally they've since hiked the price up

-set mine up as my main OS drive with a 250GB primary partition (fastest part of the drive) for the OS and 'essentials' and a 750GB secondary for media files and junk.... run games from a separate drive