Please explain 8GB and 1T

[Guest]

Hello,
I need a hard drive. Some have 320 GB and some 500GB and some have 1T..How much is 1T?

 

[analytic]

2x500GB

 

[Jonmor68]

Hello,
I need a hard drive. Some have 320 GB and some 500GB and some have 1T..How much is 1T?

1TB=1000GB
Get the biggest you can afford, there's not a lot of difference in price between a 320Gb and 1TB when you consider it's 3.125 times larger.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Look for a Samsung Spinpoint F3 in either 500GB or 1TB. It has been the best "bang for your buck" hard drive for a while now. They are cheap and fast.



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181&cm_re=spinpoint_f3-_-22-152-181-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185&cm_re=spinpoint_f3-_-22-152-185-_-Product

 

[mavroxur]

Look for a Samsung Spinpoint F3 in either 500GB or 1TB. It has been the best "bang for your buck" hard drive for a while now. They are cheap and fast.



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181&cm_re=spinpoint_f3-_-22-152-181-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185&cm_re=spinpoint_f3-_-22-152-185-_-Product

If you care about your data, get a Western Digital drive though. They're a little bit higher (a few dollars, not much) but i'd trust them a LOT more than a Samsung drive.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

If you care about your data, get a Western Digital drive though. They're a little bit higher (a few dollars, not much) but i'd trust them a LOT more than a Samsung drive.

Don't post crap you know nothing about. The F3 is as reliable as any consumer drive on the market today and better than some.

 

[Nerdbox87]

+1 to anort3, the F3 drives are brilliant

 

[brandoncatz]

Just picked up a 1TB F3 on Sunday. If you live near a Fry's they have them for $55, standard price... at least the one here in N. CA did (Newegg drops to that price and they are gone in a day!). I've not got an F3 (for backups) and a WD Black 1TB (OS and Apps) in my case, but thinking of switching their roles after running a few benchmark tests and reading all the great reviews on the Samsung drive.

Buzery, if you don't necessarily need the space and have the cash, you might want to check out Newegg's list of Solid State Drives (SSD). Not sure what you are using them for, but these would be faster than the mechanical drives that are out there. Also would need to know more about your system.

 

[brandoncatz]

Oh, and to answer your base question...

1024kb (kilabytes) = 1MB (a document is, on average, around 40 - 50kb)
1024MB (megabytes) = 1GB (an MP3 is, on average, around 3 - 4MB)
1024GB (gigabytes) = 1TB (terabyte) (a DVD is either 4.7 or 8.5GB)