1TB Hard Drives

[Jsingh]

I'm using the Samsung 1TB in my PC right now (in the 8800 waiting camp) and its been great. I think netdog is using a bunch of them too, although the 750gb varient.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152102

Whats up with all the bad reviews on newegg though?

I recently bought the Seagate 500gb 7200.11 drive from newegg and it shipped with the problem free firmware. It replaced a failed hitachi deskstar, or "deathstar" as they came to be known. Anyhow, the seagate is running great in my windows box and its pretty fast.

 

[DH Miller]

Well guess it depends on where you look, as Tech Report has the WD RE2 stomping the Seagate ES in nearly every category:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13732

I'm not gonna obsess about this but am orderding two WD RE2s and will see how it goes.
Best,
d

No, I didn't consider it (both the RE2 and RE2-GP), reason?
- smaller capacity, I wanted 1 TB
- 16 MB cache vs 32 MB
- Maximum PC did a comparison amongst Hitachi, WD and Seagate (7200.11 not the enterprise version) 1 TB drives and gave the nod to Seagate as the fastest. Hitachi was the slowest due to smallest areal density (it uses 4 platters instead of 3)

 

[kittiyut]

Well guess it depends on where you look, as Tech Report has the WD RE2 stomping the Seagate ES in nearly every category:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13732

I'm not gonna obsess about this but am orderding two WD RE2s and will see how it goes.
Best,
d

Hey thanks for the link! I wish I had read it before making the order.
Oh well