(Storage) Best performance 3-4TB internal HDD drive?

[cochran]

Hi

I'm looking to get either the WD black 3 or 4TB unit or the seagate hybrid 4TB drive.

WD Black i know the performance is fast compare to other normal hdd.

But the seagate hybrid drive with 8GB ssd cache and only at 5900rpm.

Which one will give a faster transfer speed?

Be using as storage not as boot strike as have ssd drive as boot.

thank you.

 

[Gribber]

You dont need performance hdd like that what

 

[jtjt00]

Just get a normal 7200rpm hard disk will do, no need to spend extra for performance edition. Minute increase in performance is barely noticable in day to day operation.

 

[free2d]

Between Ultrastar n WD black, which one is better? I pick these 2 bcos of their 5 years warranty. Also, which is easier to RMA?
Thanks.

 

[epos]

Between Ultrastar n WD black, which one is better? I pick these 2 bcos of their 5 years warranty. Also, which is easier to RMA?
Thanks.

From my own experience, both are equally great. both will deliver to your door step in a week or two, sometime 3 days! Seagate will do the same if you also consider their model.

Samsung was the worst as I have to visit their center at Joo Seng twice to send in and collect, like many sub-standard local distro. luckily by the time I had to RMA another Samsung, their were bought over by Seagate.

You might wanna avoid Toshiba cause as of now, nobody in HWZ is 100% sure where or how to RMA their HDD.

I usually send the HDD to their RMA center personally but you can send by post.

 

[free2d]

From my own experience, both are equally great. both will deliver to your door step in a week or two, sometime 3 days! Seagate will do the same if you also consider their model.

Samsung was the worst as I have to visit their center at Joo Seng twice to send in and collect, like many sub-standard local distro. luckily by the time I had to RMA another Samsung, their were bought over by Seagate.

You might wanna avoid Toshiba cause as of now, nobody in HWZ is 100% sure where or how to RMA their HDD.

I usually send the HDD to their RMA center personally but you can send by post.

I find Seagate is the easiest to RMA cos I lve in Changi. If only the give 5 years warranty.

 

[cochran]

The seagate SSHD 4TB is now going at USD$140. ard SGD$190+

Very good price and warranty support in sg.

Using it as storage drive will give faster prawn file access? haha... Or no different compare to other 4tb 7200rpm hdd?

Cant find any hitachi 4TB drive available in SG lei. why?

 

[ondooy]

seagte sshd 4tb is fast, 8gb ssd and 5900 rpm disc...
used it as a storage, copy speed max was at 190mb..
lowest was at 40mb on usb2.0...

 

[muddle]

I am confused about the 2.2tb limit for legacy bios hardware. What with the gpt and such. How to go around such issues using old motherboards? I understand it is ok for data drive but not as boot drive?

 

[Goodshot]

Bro , why u need load so fast for pawn . Buay tahan gonna shoot liao izit

 

[limcc]

Cant find any hitachi 4TB drive available in SG lei. why?

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I am confused about the 2.2tb limit for legacy bios hardware. What with the gpt and such. How to go around such issues using old motherboards? I understand it is ok for data drive but not as boot drive?

Simple,

1)if you use XP x64 and above WinOS, to make use of >2TB, the HDD has to be initialized by using GPT. This is the age old MBR limitation.

2)to use this >2TB HDD as boot drive, the motherboard has to support UEFI. this is BIOS issue.

Windows support for hard disks that are larger than 2 TB

Windows and GPT FAQ

There are 3rd party software or boot manager to allow access to >2TB HDD for non-UEFI mobo and non-GPT OS. you decide if its worth risking corrupting your precious data.