1tb or 750 gb hard drive

master_blaster_2

hi folks
i am looking to buy 2 hard drives to put into a small network i use and was thinking of using either 750's or 1tb.
which are the best ones to use and are there any available at a decent cost(although prob more worried about performance than cost without rippig the A. out of it)

i hope to set these up as raid drives and we need a lot of storage

thanks in advance
Andrew

fwor

At the moment - purely in terms of cost per Gb - 750Gb and 1Tb drives don't seem to be good value for money.

As far as I can see, 500Gb drives are still best value as you can get them for around £45. The cheapest 1Tb drive I found was just under £120 - a substantial premium to put more of your eggs in one basket.

Psycence

There is no advantage to using a 1TB over a few 500GB, infact you will probably find faster 500GB drives than 1TB, write and read speeds are what make a drive worth buying so forget size and research just how fast you need your access to be.

IRT1959

Couple of places to look if you do go down the 1TB route are

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pl/36-947815/Hard-Drives/Samsung-SpinPoint-F1-1TB-SATA-II-7200rpm-Compare-Prices

or

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=1tb&x=23&y=20&searchInCategoryOnly=on&searchCat=34

I think BigPockets had a Special on them last week for under £90 delivered