Is this a good deal?

[azeem40]

Is this a good deal?
http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=31000&vpn=WD1001FALS&manufacture=Western%20Digital%20WD
I currently have a 500gb caviar black in my cart, so is this a better deal?

 

[goga44]

well if that drive is the same as this drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284 take it man

 

[inzone]

A 1tb hdd for $103 is most defenitly a good deal , the one you are linking is a sata2 hdd and if you have sata3 ports on your motherboard you may want to consider a sata3 hdd unless your are limited by a low budget amount. If you did have a sata3 port then this would be a better deal.

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=58881&vpn=WD10EALX&manufacture=Western Digital WD

 

[azeem40]

Don't Hard Drives not take full advantage of SATA III?

 

[goga44]

Don't Hard Drives not take full advantage of SATA III?

yep u nailed it, don't buy the more expensive one. i don't even think hard drives use SATAII at its maximum, SATAIII is more for SSDs, and u also got to check if ur motherboard supports SATAIII. But then again, if ur motherboard does support SATAIII, u might as well buy the more expensive one since its only like 5 dollars more.

 

[rolli59]

No mechanical HDD takes full advantage of SATA II so SATA II drive is fine!

 

[azeem40]

You mean SATA III.

 

[rolli59]

You mean SATA III.

No, normal 7200rpm mechanical hard drives barely saturate the transfer rate of SATA I let alone SATA II. The rpm and cache of the drive have more to do with the performance of it than whether it is SATA II or SATA III.