I need some general advice concerning hard drives and SSD's. I've decided to upgrade from my 640gb WD black to a HDD and SSD combo. My current black drive will go to my brother.
I'm between the Crucial M500 and Kingston SSDNow V300. A concern for the kingston is upon reading reviews, it seems kingston performed a bait a switch because there are multiple cases of people saying newer models perform appreciable worse.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721107
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148693
For the hard drive, I'm looking at 2tb drives and would prefer to keep it under $90. I'm basically in between a WD green and some Toshiba models. Concerns for the Green drive is that there seems to be problems with its intellipark feature causing additional wear and tear. The toshiba I simply don't know much about. It is 7200rpm vs the slower 5000 range of the green drive. Also, it seems to share design aspects with hitachi which is more favorably reviewed than Western Digital on some websites for reliability.
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Desktop-3-5-Inch-Internal-PH3200U-1I72/dp/B009E6J1DI/ref=sr_1_7?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1400164974&sr=1-7
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-3-5-Inch-SATA3-Drive-DT01ACA200/dp/B009QOGBZE/ref=pd_cp_pc_0
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236404
Another option is to get a single WD blue 1tb and add a second on a later date. This is an option I can afford now versus waiting a month or so to get the 2tb drive. And a 1tb should be enough storage for at least the next 1-2 years.
I would like to get your opinions on these drives. Thank you for any help in advance!
I'm between the Crucial M500 and Kingston SSDNow V300. A concern for the kingston is upon reading reviews, it seems kingston performed a bait a switch because there are multiple cases of people saying newer models perform appreciable worse.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721107
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148693
For the hard drive, I'm looking at 2tb drives and would prefer to keep it under $90. I'm basically in between a WD green and some Toshiba models. Concerns for the Green drive is that there seems to be problems with its intellipark feature causing additional wear and tear. The toshiba I simply don't know much about. It is 7200rpm vs the slower 5000 range of the green drive. Also, it seems to share design aspects with hitachi which is more favorably reviewed than Western Digital on some websites for reliability.
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Desktop-3-5-Inch-Internal-PH3200U-1I72/dp/B009E6J1DI/ref=sr_1_7?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1400164974&sr=1-7
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-3-5-Inch-SATA3-Drive-DT01ACA200/dp/B009QOGBZE/ref=pd_cp_pc_0
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236404
Another option is to get a single WD blue 1tb and add a second on a later date. This is an option I can afford now versus waiting a month or so to get the 2tb drive. And a 1tb should be enough storage for at least the next 1-2 years.
I would like to get your opinions on these drives. Thank you for any help in advance!