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New Hdd Help


GaiusMaxwell

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As some of u know from another post I got the dreaded click of death, stupid hdd died after 8 months (sig is old now, only had the 500g in and it broke, sold the 750g)

 

Anyway, what I want to know is some suggestions for a good, solid hdd that is a good performer, I don't want a lot of space because I don't store huge amounts of junk, my system is pretty much for gaming

 

I won't need anything larger than say 300gig and I would get 1 as low as 160ish if it was reliable

 

Anyway, any suggestions would be handy

 

Thanx,

Love

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Well i was going to recommend the 750gig samsung F1, because it is cheap, fast and big. But if you dont want big then just fire in any 320/250 really, they are all much the same. Some people have good experiences with one, while someone else may detest the same brand. Hitachi's are supposed to be good though.

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Be careful with the Samsung drives. The 1TB drives (and others too) are susceptible for being DoA, but not always. Quite a lot of people have been unlucky though. Markiemrboo had ordered 2, one was DoA if I recall correctly. I have the 500GB and mine was okay, but if you are happy with ~300GB, why spend more? ;) I'd get a nice single platter drive instead (cooler and less prone to being a pain in the arse)

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Yep. I bought 2 x 1TB F1's and one of them was DOA. However, the original working one and the replacement are absolutely fine. "only" had them about 3 months, mind. You also need to bear in mind that I am probably one of the unluckiest people on the planet when it comes to faulty computer hardware :)

 

You also need to be careful reading in to the F1 reliability situation I think. There was a problem with the Samsung diagnostic software and these drives, which gave some MCC error or something saying the drive was bad. That was just a bug in the software, and the drive was actually fine.

 

I never actually used this software, but I assume that both of my drives would have failed. I just used a generic piece of SMART monitoring software (HDD Health v2.1), saw bad sectors on one of the drives as it was formatting, and sent it back for a replacement :)

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