1tb Hard drives

[Sherardp]

I was tossed between the WD 1/2tb Caviar blacks and a Samsung Spinpoint f3 1tb drive. For the price of admission I decided to go Samsung. I'm thinking of just adding it my main rig as a mulitmedia drive (music,movies, video). I'll then format both 1tb external drives and use those as backup instead of media drives. Any contradiction to this? Anyone using those Spinpoint F3 7200rpm drives/thoughts? I'm guessing Sata 3 drives should be faster vs USB 2.0 external drives correct?

[audiobliss]

My 1TB is a f3 and I'm very pleased with it. Seems quite responsive (though I use it for music and movies, so I haven't really pushed it in that department), I haven't heard it, and it runs cool (28-30*C when my main HD runs at ~33-37*C).

The first one arrived from Newegg doa, which was a first experience for me, but hey, that just happens sometimes. I'd definitely love to get another one when I have the room in my case.

[falconcry72]

I was tossed between the WD 1/2tb Caviar blacks and a Samsung Spinpoint f3 1tb drive. For the price of admission I decided to go Samsung. I'm thinking of just adding it my main rig as a mulitmedia drive (music,movies, video). I'll then format both 1tb external drives and use those as backup instead of media drives. Any contradiction to this? Anyone using those Spinpoint F3 7200rpm drives/thoughts? I'm guessing Sata 3 drives should be faster vs USB 2.0 external drives correct?

My Current PC has 6.64TB of storage

I have a 2TB internal (WD caviar green) that stores the music of the Grateful Dead, a 1TB internal (WD caviar black) that stores all other music and media, and then I have external backups of both of those drives (a 2TB WD element and a 1TB WD element).

On my PC (intel core 2 quad w/ 8 gigs of ram) my internals (sata 3) transfer at about 85MB/second, and my externals (USB 2) transfer at about 30MB/second.

I have had no issues with these drives for the last couple of years.

Storage is so cheap now that you'd just have to be lazy to not have everything backed up.

I don't have experience with that Samsung drive, but as long as it's backed up it really doesn't matter. Just don't keep the backup drives real close to the main drives or one catastrophic spill could take them both out

[dkg999]

I'm using 4 of the Samsung 7200rpm 1TB drives in my QNAP NAS. I've only had them a month or so, but they are very quiet and all the reviews on them I read were positive.

[Sherardp]

Excellent, thanks guys. I'm patiently waiting for the order to get to me. I'll be installing it as a third drive in my rig. Using it for multimedia only and then formatting my Externals for said backup of my rig drives. Are most of you formatting Fat32 or NTFS in Windows 7?

[Big Dawg]

I have a 2TB internal (WD caviar green) that stores the music of the Grateful Dead

Are you Dick?

[falconcry72]

Excellent, thanks guys. I'm patiently waiting for the order to get to me. I'll be installing it as a third drive in my rig. Using it for multimedia only and then formatting my Externals for said backup of my rig drives. Are most of you formatting Fat32 or NTFS in Windows 7?

I do NTFS becuase FAT32 won't accept single files greater than 4 gigs in size, so it won't take ISO video files from normal feature-length films.

You can save movies as VIDEO_TS folders on a FAT32, but it's nice to be able to do ISO's too.

[falconcry72]

Are you Dick?

Haha no. Dick's dead, man; Dick's dead.

While not Dick, I do own copies of virtually every released and non-released live show from 1965-1977. It's roughly 1600 non-officially released whole show recordings just from those years. Then there are all the official releases...

I'll never listen to all of it, but it's still nice to have it ;). It's like a library; I try to be as complete as possible so when I go lookin' for somethin in particular it'll be there.