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http://www.bewawa.com/wdc-500gb-int-3-5-in-sata-3g-16m-7200rpm.html
I'm thinking picking it up for a quick upgrade.
And I have one more question, what do those enclosures do? If I put in this HDD, does it make the thing into a external harddrive or something?
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Western Digital Desktop Storage Hard Drive WD5000AAKS Internal 500GB SATAII 7200rmp 16MB 300MB/sec
I mean, it'll work fine, as will any hard drive, but if you're getting it specifically for gaming, look for Caviar Black or Blue.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Better buy WD Caviar Black (1TB, 32mb cache, SATA II), its quiet and fast drive. I recommend it.
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| elpacco wrote: | Western Digital Desktop Storage Hard Drive WD5000AAKS Internal 500GB SATAII 7200rmp 16MB 300MB/sec
I mean, it'll work fine, as will any hard drive, but if you're getting it specifically for gaming, look for Caviar Black or Blue. |
What about Caviar Greens?
And do enclosures make the thing an external HDD?
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| The WD Green drives aren't for performance as its rpm fluctuates between 5400 and 7200rpm.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| ArcaneKnite wrote: | | elpacco wrote: | Western Digital Desktop Storage Hard Drive WD5000AAKS Internal 500GB SATAII 7200rmp 16MB 300MB/sec
I mean, it'll work fine, as will any hard drive, but if you're getting it specifically for gaming, look for Caviar Black or Blue. |
What about Caviar Greens?
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If you buy a standard internal hard drive and also buy an external enclosure, then yes you would be making an external hard drive.
I personally prefer buying an External HDD then making my own because I used an enclosure once and when ever it was on, my speakers would make a loud noise non stop.
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Get the Samsung SpinPoint F3 hard drive. The Bewawa website is down, so I don't know what your budget is ATM, but the 500GB HD503HJ is priced in the same range as the WD5000AAKS (which is a Caviar Blue drive, BTW) and the 1TB HD103SJ is about $90. They're among the fastest mechanical hard drives available and are actually considerably faster than the 10k RPM VelociRaptors according to a review.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: |
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| ArcaneKnite wrote: | | elpacco wrote: | Western Digital Desktop Storage Hard Drive WD5000AAKS Internal 500GB SATAII 7200rmp 16MB 300MB/sec
I mean, it'll work fine, as will any hard drive, but if you're getting it specifically for gaming, look for Caviar Black or Blue. |
What about Caviar Greens?
And do enclosures make the thing an external HDD? |
Caviar green isn't meant for gaming, it's just meant for mass storage (i.e. archives) at a cheaper rate per GB. I mean again, it'll still run games fine, any HDD will. But if you're specifically looking for the best performance, don't go with Caviar Green. There is a reason they tend to be cheaper.
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| superweapons wrote: | | Get the Samsung SpinPoint F3 hard drive. The Bewawa website is down, so I don't know what your budget is ATM, but the 500GB HD503HJ is priced in the same range as the WD5000AAKS (which is a Caviar Blue drive, BTW) and the 1TB HD103SJ is about $90. They're among the fastest mechanical hard drives available and are actually considerably faster than the 10k RPM VelociRaptors according to a review. |
Wow faster read and write times than a Velociraptor.
That drive was $40 btw, but the sale is over. I didn't buy it, because the store was relatively new, but the people who ordered from them seemed happy with their purchase, so I'll probably go to them next time.
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I have a question too..
Does caviar black have 1TB 64MB Cache?
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| Yep, fine.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Since you posted that, I'ma get the caviar black 500gb. Its got a bigger cache than the blue for 10 bucks more. Unless thats not important.
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