Deals on Good 2.5" Harddrives ? - GoFuckYourself.com

LiveDose · 01-28-2012, 10:49 AM

Anyone seen anything good this week?

Thanks

Brad Mitchell · 01-28-2012, 03:37 PM

Http://www.newegg.com

Always great deals there! I'll look..

Brad

Brad Mitchell · 01-28-2012, 03:51 PM

For performance and reliability I would pick a WD Scorpio Black (7200 RPM). If you're not concerned about speed there are some great deals on 1tb 5xxx RPM drives for just over $100.

LiveDose · 01-28-2012, 04:43 PM

Thanks for posting Brad. I would say your advice is golden and I love newegg. Going to take a look and grab a couple

Thanks.

LiveDose · 01-28-2012, 04:48 PM

In case you do check this thread again Brad could you give me your opinion on going with 7200 drives as opposed to 5400 drives purely for a RAID setup at home. It's a 4 bay Qsnap that takes 2.5 drives. I have a separate rig for streaming movies, music etc. Do you think the extra speed is necessary?

midnightio · 01-28-2012, 06:23 PM

Don't forget that the floods in Thailand have hurt HD supplies and raised prices. I purchased several 4TB Seagates a few months back after the floods, but just before the supply dried up. ~$240/ea and a few weeks later they were up to $350+ with only a few places showing availability.

But like all things, it will sort itself out eventually.

bronco67 · 01-28-2012, 08:00 PM

Don't try to go cheap on something that all of your data resides on.

TidalWave · 01-28-2012, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by LiveDose

In case you do check this thread again Brad could you give me your opinion on going with 7200 drives as opposed to 5400 drives purely for a RAID setup at home. It's a 4 bay Qsnap that takes 2.5 drives. I have a separate rig for streaming movies, music etc. Do you think the extra speed is necessary?

Just buy 1 SSD for around $220 and you will have faster performance than you can handle.
The biggest 2.5" drives they make is 500GB I believe and they are not cheap.

Yngwie · 01-28-2012, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TidalWave

Just buy 1 SSD for around $220 and you will have faster performance than you can handle.
The biggest 2.5" drives they make is 500GB I believe and they are not cheap.

He can still get a smaller size SSD (120GB) and use it as the boot drive (with his OS installed on it) for speed and get a 2nd hard drive 1, 2, 3+TB for storage (7200rpm, 5400rpm, 5900rpm etc..). This way he can have the best of both worlds.

For the 2nd bigger hdd he can just make it an external one.

LiveDose · 01-29-2012, 01:31 AM

Thanks for the post guys.

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LiveDose Show Yer Tits! Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Somewhere Out there... Posts: 25,792	In case you do check this thread again Brad could you give me your opinion on going with 7200 drives as opposed to 5400 drives purely for a RAID setup at home. It's a 4 bay Qsnap that takes 2.5 drives. I have a separate rig for streaming movies, music etc. Do you think the extra speed is necessary? __________________ Scammer Alert: acer19 acer [email protected] [email protected] Money stolen using PayPal

01-28-2012, 06:23 PM	#6
midnightio Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: SE Asia Posts: 37	Don't forget that the floods in Thailand have hurt HD supplies and raised prices. I purchased several 4TB Seagates a few months back after the floods, but just before the supply dried up. ~$240/ea and a few weeks later they were up to $350+ with only a few places showing availability. But like all things, it will sort itself out eventually. __________________ Angkor What?

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