What do you think of this drive?

[thedeathclox]

Okay. I recently purchased parts for a gaming system im building, and I was thinking of how shitty my storage was gonna be. I had a laptop 5400RPM 120GB HDD from Hitachi (SATA, yes it works on my current desktop), a Seagate PATA 7200RPM 80GB HDD, and a Hitachi Deskstar SATA 80GB HDD.

So, I went looking for a hardrive on ebay. suprise! THEY'RE EXPENSIVE. Then, while I was pondering what to do, I looked over and looked at my external drive. I thought, "what a pain in the ass. I hate plugging that thing in and running the power cable to it.." when it hit me "EXTRACT THE DRIVE!". So, I did it.

The resulting extracted drive is a Western Digital Caviar Green 2.0TB SATA3 Drive. I plugged it in, installed windows 7 and it works fine, but it looks so ******* nice.. I know it has rediculous storage capacity, but performance wise.. would you say this is a good hard drive aside from the capacity? Also, its 7,200RPM.

 

[slicedtoad]

They're okay drives. Not the fastest but faster than the ones you mentioned above.

Really, though, if you want fast storage for your OS, grab an SSD.
Something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227807

You install the OS on it and a few applications. Everything else goes on the HDD. This translates to a very fast bootup, faster app loading and a snappier windows experience. It's worth it, trust me.

 

[thedeathclox]

but they're so expensive! I'm really interested in getting myself an SSD when the prices drop and capacity goes up. I might look into them if i find an SSD thats at least 150GB and is affordable. ._.