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matt87_50   10-04-2009 at 02:37:21 PM

I've been looking at getting a single 2TB drive for my main computer. Because it will be the system drive, I want it to be fast enough for the job.

In Australia I can currently select from the WD GP 32meg cache, the Seagate 'GP' (runs at 5900rpm) or the hitachi Deskstar 32meg 7200rpm.

I have seen reviews for the WD and seagate (it seems the seagate with its slightly faster spin speed has slightly faster read and write speeds, but has a crap access time compared to the WD, thus I would pick the WD out of these two)

but the Hitachi drive is at 7200RPM and is currently the same price as the WD GP! I have seen the benchmarks for the WD 7200RPM 64m cache drive, and they are impressive, but this drive is not yet available for me to buy, and if it was, I would worry that the price would be quite a bit higher than the Hitachi.

So, I was wondering, has anyone seen any reviews, benchmarks of the Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000?

Anyone know how it stacks up next to the WD GP and/or WD black?

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   10-04-2009 at 02:42:06 PM
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If this is the 5-platter monster Hitachi announced some long time ago, then i wouldn't touch it. Too much heat. Getting a 5400rpm is more in line with a 2TB disk; since it will likely be used with large files and the I/O is probably sequential.

Picking the WD Green, Samsung F3 or Seagate 7200.12 series may be a better choice.

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wuzy   10-05-2009 at 06:14:48 AM
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Yeah it's the 5-platter one. Although I haven't seen WD and Seagate 7200rpm ones on market, they're 4-platter and comes with 5yr warranty (enterprise warranty is back for desktop drives :D)

$/GB wise I'd rather grab four 1TB and make a RAID 10 array out of it, or RAID /parity is used for pure data archival.

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matt87_50   10-06-2009 at 06:22:44 AM
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yeah, multiple drives in raid seem obvious for my needs, but I really would rather just one drive. thanks for info on the platter count and warranty, 5 years would be sweet!

and yeah, again this is a system drive, and only drive, so random access is probably more important than 'bandwidth'

funny thing about the WD black, usually umart gets stuff pretty instantly, yet the first I've heard of this drive in Aus is on the radio... nova ad... didn't mention price, said they were having a comp or something...

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