Looking for some advice on some hard drives to get for a new build I'm planning. My current build has a couple WD HDD (Raptor and Caviar Blue). Is Western Digital still a high quality brand? Should I look at other brands like Seagate?
I'm looking for a fast HDD for my OS and applications and a larger HDD for file storage. The WD Black seem to be the best, but the smallest is only 500GB which isn't necessary for OS/App, but didn't think the Green or Blue would be good. Here's what I was eyeing:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
I might actually do an SSD for my OS/App drive, but need to do some research with it. One thing that I don't understand is why the 500GB is more then the 1TB. Shouldn't it be less? It is smaller size and cache.
I'm looking for a fast HDD for my OS and applications and a larger HDD for file storage. The WD Black seem to be the best, but the smallest is only 500GB which isn't necessary for OS/App, but didn't think the Green or Blue would be good. Here's what I was eyeing:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
I might actually do an SSD for my OS/App drive, but need to do some research with it. One thing that I don't understand is why the 500GB is more then the 1TB. Shouldn't it be less? It is smaller size and cache.