I am out of space on my drive for media and Windows programs and I have been considering a Western Digital 2TB SATA 6Gbps Power Saving Internal Hard Drive OEM - Caviar Green WD20EARX for £98.63/€118.757 delivered.
My current drive is displayed in GParted as a 298GB ATA ST3320620AS although googling that model number tells me it's a 320 GB Seagate Barracuda.
On this drive I have segmented the following partitions:
The largest partition is used for media storage and accessible from Windows and linux. The other two main partitions are for Windows XP and linux my primary OS.
I find this drive very slow for loading games like CoD4: MW1 and World of Warcraft but the most pressing problem is having to delete old and wanted media to download newer more wanted media.
I was thinking that once I have the new drive I can copy all my media to it, back up the OS partitions on it, format the old drive and then reinstall my backups of the old OS partitions to the old drive with a larger Windows partition. I could then replace the old drive with an SSD in 6 to 12 months when the prices have hopefully dropped for a decent size.
I like this drive because it's energy efficient but seems fast enough for media, but that is not to say that there's not a drive out there that does both of these better and/or possibly cheaper unbeknownst to me which is the reason for the thread.
What do you think?
My current drive is displayed in GParted as a 298GB ATA ST3320620AS although googling that model number tells me it's a 320 GB Seagate Barracuda.
On this drive I have segmented the following partitions:
Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7273 58414048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7273 38914 254154752 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 7273 9231 15727600 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9231 11030 14448640 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 11030 38391 219781120 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 38391 38913 4192256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
The largest partition is used for media storage and accessible from Windows and linux. The other two main partitions are for Windows XP and linux my primary OS.
I find this drive very slow for loading games like CoD4: MW1 and World of Warcraft but the most pressing problem is having to delete old and wanted media to download newer more wanted media.
I was thinking that once I have the new drive I can copy all my media to it, back up the OS partitions on it, format the old drive and then reinstall my backups of the old OS partitions to the old drive with a larger Windows partition. I could then replace the old drive with an SSD in 6 to 12 months when the prices have hopefully dropped for a decent size.
I like this drive because it's energy efficient but seems fast enough for media, but that is not to say that there's not a drive out there that does both of these better and/or possibly cheaper unbeknownst to me which is the reason for the thread.
What do you think?