Best 500GB for boot drive?

blammo

Best internal 500GB for boot drive?

Any advice on a suitable internal 500GB for a boot drive?

I'm thinking of either a WD Caviar Green or a Samsung Spinpoint F3, both available from dabs for about £41 with postage. Anyone have any recommendations?

cheers

Lil306

I haven't had much experience from Samsung drives so can't comment on them, but if it was me I'd choose the WD Caviar as all the WD, Seagate, Maxtor drives I've had have been 100% reliable.

whistler58

Try Ebuyer.com they generally have some good buys Got a 1tb dive for £59.99 before xmas.

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blammo wrote: »

Best internal 500GB for boot drive?

Any advice on a suitable internal 500GB for a boot drive?

I'm thinking of either a WD Caviar Green or a Samsung Spinpoint F3, both available from dabs for about £41 with postage. Anyone have any recommendations?

cheers

Performance wise, you wouldn't want to use a WD Green as your main drive. The Blue, or preferably Black editions will be much better. I'd only consider using a Green for storage/back up.

mr_fishbulb

blammo wrote: »

Any advice on a suitable internal 500GB for a boot drive?

I'm thinking of either a WD Caviar Green or a Samsung Spinpoint F3, both available from dabs for about £41 with postage. Anyone have any recommendations?

Depends if speed of power consumption is your preference

WD Green is designed to run using little power, so it's not very fast. The F3 on the other hand is one of the fasted SATA drives you can get without getting a 10,000 rpm expensive one.

I have a 1TB F3 and it's just as fast as the 10,000 Raptor it replaced, and a lot quieter. There were a lot of problems with the F1s but I haven't seen anything similar with the F3s

isofa

I like the Spinpoints a lot, try prices at Scan.co.uk

blammo

isofa wrote: »

I like the Spinpoints a lot, try prices at Scan.co.uk

After reading some reviews and considering that i want a wee bit of performance since it's the boot drive i'm going with the spinpoint. Was there some way of getting free delivery with Scan?

i8change

Originally Posted by blammo
I'm thinking of either a WD Caviar Green or a Samsung Spinpoint F3, both available from dabs for about £41 with postage. Anyone have any recommendations?

I bought the Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ last November to use as a boot drive. I use the original 250GB Western Digital Blue as a backup drive now.

It is single platter (so hopefully reliable) very fast and very quiet. It is good value and I am pleased with it.

I travelled 30 miles each way to Scan to collect it as StoreageReview.com seemed to believe a lot of failures are due to mis-handling during shipping. There are so many opinions on reliability it is hard to tell!

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54770

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500Gb-Samsung-Spinpoint-F3-HD502HJ-SATA-3Gb-s-7200rpm-16Mb-Cache-8ms-OEM

Reviews on newegg were similar to the better WD Blacks and Blues. If you look at just the bad reviews for HDD's you will not want to buy any of them!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181

Once it's installed and working, doing it's job, you tend to forget reliability scare stories and just expect it to work.

I believe most HDD's work OK for years. A few fail quickly and cause purchasers to get bad vibes about that particular brand. I suppose it is understandable.

blammo

computershack wrote: »

Why not get an Intel X25 SSD drive for the OS/Boot and a 500GB SATA HDD for data etc?

mainly the price! I was under the impression that an SSD was likely to set me back £100+