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Western Digital or Seagate
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: sausuke on September 02, 2012, 01:46:01 AM ---agreed.. I just happened to be here because of google and after reading some of those head parking.. I researched and then my forum friend experienced those.. so it will help some when choosing a hard drive brand...
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Thanks :)
Since I know your opinion about Green and Blue
What do you say about Caviar Black Drive? And the external enclosure I mentioned above
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on September 02, 2012, 02:08:02 AM ---
--- Quote from: sausuke on September 02, 2012, 01:46:01 AM ---agreed.. I just happened to be here because of google and after reading some of those head parking.. I researched and then my forum friend experienced those.. so it will help some when choosing a hard drive brand...
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Thanks :)
Since I know your opinion about Green and Blue
What do you say about Caviar Black Drive? And the external enclosure I mentioned above
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What more needs to be said for the Black, really?
And I did see the enclosure details: not really detailed on specs (i.e. the bandwidth that it supports, because SATA II does not say much). But assuming the SATA interface can support the 4~6Gbps, with the fact that it can run on USB 3.0, and it's made of metal and has an actual built-in fan, it looks quite good for an external enclosure (especially from what I typically find at that price point, anyway).
Dhruv:
Well it is backward compatible so good for mr since I only have USB 2.0. But it would have been better if it had eSATA since I have a eSATA port too. I'll have to ask Sashamaru since the detailed information is as detailed as shit.
And as far as Black goes I believe it is the Best drive from Western Digital along with Velociraptor.
Velociraptor's abilities will be wasted if I buy it since I need it only for anime storage etc. and maybe some touhou games. Black also meets the requirements but it's not as high performing as velociraptor but extremely reliable with 5 year warranty and 2TB capacity.
megido-rev.M:
The Velociraptor really has little point for your purposes if you don't perform long disk-intense activities (cross-disk data transfers do not count). I'm talking about applications that require huge amounts of scratch space.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on September 02, 2012, 03:45:50 AM ---The Velociraptor really has little point for your purposes if you don't perform long disk-intense activities (cross-disk data transfers do not count). I'm talking about applications that require huge amounts of scratch space.
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Yup really no purpose for me at all. Seeding, streaming anime, storage and some games really does not require a velociraptor. And also a 1TB Velociraptor costs as much as a 2TB Caviar Black.
Though other externals aren't that bad. Elements is a very good external like tatsujin said since I have heard from many users saying it is a good drive.
So it does come down to Elements and Caviar Black in an enclosure for me.
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