New Hard Drive

JasX

busenbust wrote: »

Really? :shocked: They certainly do have green credentials :cool: but performance-wise I see no real hit - IMHO. Like everything else on this sub-forum, it's such a personal judgment .

yeah, to be fair I don't think they're performance 'impaired' compared to your bog standard SATA2, hard disk, they're just nothing special....

I've always tried to go for as fast a hard drive as I can find and when I got my last new one (for my Win7 upgrade) the F3 stood out as blisteringly fast and I'm not one to worry too much about the extra watts it uses

Personal judgement as you say :A

altin_2

Morning.
Anyone have used "The Techguys".
I'll need to go to PC World today to buy my new one.....
I'm so much into this one. 320 GB for £35
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/the-techguys-internal-3-5-sata-320gb-hard-drive-03211816-pdt.html
No sure if these people are good in bussines - dont want to buy a new one next year.

JasX

The "Tech Guys" is a service PC world offers where its people fiddle with/ 'fix' your PC for you.

They are awful, incompetent and you'll find plenty of posts on here of people who having used them had their PC develop more faults than it had in the first place (and they're expensive).

The drive you have linked to will not be a 'Tech Guys' drive but will be an unknown brand drive so cannot really comment.

Its price is about right for a 320GB drive, but bear in mind you could get a drive more than 3x the capacity for less than 2x the cost if you can stretch your budget to look at 1TB drives