Hey OzBargain,
I'm after a 3.5" internal hard drive, like title says, and don't know where to look / which site to buy from. Preferably 7200rpm and at least 1TB in storage space. I would search on staticice myself, but I've no idea what specific hard drive to search for. My budget is around 100 dollars.
Can anyone help please? Thanks.
EDIT: SATA 3 / 6Gbps if possible
You don't need SATA3 on a hdd since hard drives don't even saturate a SATA2 connection.
Best bet is probably a Samsung Spin point F3 if you want a good performing HDD but can also look at WD Black or Seagate 7200.12 hdd.
Hi,
Where do you live?
I have some 1 2 and 3 tb western digital green and red drives too.
1tb reds for $85.00 plus postage, or picked up.
1tb greens $70.00 plus postage, or picked up.
I'm in the western suburbs of melbourne.
These are brand new, sealed drives.
There are a few cheaper deals around (eg- 3tb external drive for $100) but you have to pull them out of the case and I don't know what that would do for your warranty.
Sounds like a great offer but I'm from Sydney, so I'll have to pass.
Yeah I was thinking of buying an external but like you said, don't want to mess up my warranty.
forgot 2 tb falls into your budget too (greens)
Green 2tb is 93 and 2tb red is 133.
What are you doing with it? Greens are useless for anything but bulk storage. If its a system drive get an SSD.
Just wanted to mention:
Western Digital
RED = slower more reliable drive meant for RAID setup - would not suggest buying this for single drive
GREEN = slower more power efficient hard drive meant for large data storage while saving power
The RED and GREEN drives are NOT necessarily 7200 RPM
BLUE = standard main stream 7200 RPM drive
BLACK = performance 7200 RPM drive (more cache, dual processor)
You mention you want SATA3/6Gbps so I assume you're after a faster drive. Would strongly recommend getting at least a blue then. We sell these (1Tb) for less than $100 so I assume you'll easily be able to do so also.
But if I were you I'd stretch my budget to about $125, as this will get you a black drive (1Tb) and be MUCH faster.
External WD drives tend to have the blue drives in them.
Thanks for the detailed info!
I'm definitely set on the WD Black now. I was thinking of getting the 2tb Green for around this price but realistically I wouldn't be able to use it all and rather opt for the better performance of the Black.
I second the vote for not getting a WD Green, they are designed for low data rate/low power stuff and are very slow. Reds are for NAS (always on, needs low power consumption)
WD Black 1TB is well worth the money over a blue and within your budget (at MSY).
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=2tb+7200&sp…
i dont know how anyone can find this difficult
any of these brands are fine
there are like 3 manuafacuteres, all 2-3yrs warranty
they will all work fine in a pc or nas as long as you dont use raid