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8/8/12 at 9:30am

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Hi all,

Has anyone had an experience with these Seagate HDDs? It seems well priced.

http://www.ebuyer.com/319639-seagate-1tb-barracuda-internal-hard-drive-st1000dm003

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8/8/12 at 9:34am

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I have no experience with this seller, but I believe that is the HDD I bought here in the US and it works great

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8/8/12 at 9:41am

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It's fine.... warranty is only 1 year though....

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8/8/12 at 10:09am

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Also, what's the latest with SSD? Are they reliable enough to run OS and programmes? Also I will need a HDD/SSD to run numerical analysis which would likely mean lots of overwrites, should I avoid SSD in this situation and stick with HDD for that application? Which SDD types should we be aiming for these days?

Finally... how about the WD green? Any feedback on this one?
http://www.ebuyer.com/321341-wd-1tb-green-desktop-drive-wd10ezrx

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Originally Posted by Mechchip

Also, what's the latest with SSD? Are they reliable enough to run OS and programmes? Also I will need a HDD/SSD to run numerical analysis which would likely mean lots of overwrites, should I avoid SSD in this situation and stick with HDD for that application? Which SDD types should we be aiming for these days?
Finally... how about the WD green? Any feedback on this one?
http://www.ebuyer.com/321341-wd-1tb-green-desktop-drive-wd10ezrx
Thanks

SSDs are pretty reliable. Their prices are at all-time lows. Theyre fast and..Well. Thats all you need to know

For the rewrites..I have no knowledge on that. A lot of people do a SSD+HDD combo. Set-up the SSD as OS drive and SOME applications on the SSD while the main grouping of info is on the HDD.
Some good SSDs are Samsung 830s, Crucial M4 series, and Intel series SSDs ( Though intel SSDs cost a bit more depending on the location\store)
WD Green drives are decent too, I believe.

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Seagate 1TB 7200rpm HDD	Crucial M4 256GB	ASUS 24x CD/DVD drive	Corsair H80i
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mechchip

Also, what's the latest with SSD? Are they reliable enough to run OS and programmes? Also I will need a HDD/SSD to run numerical analysis which would likely mean lots of overwrites, should I avoid SSD in this situation and stick with HDD for that application? Which SDD types should we be aiming for these days?
Finally... how about the WD green? Any feedback on this one?
http://www.ebuyer.com/321341-wd-1tb-green-desktop-drive-wd10ezrx
Thanks

SSDs are more popular in servers if that is any indication of reliability.

How many writes are we talking about? In your program, is there any benefit in read/writing to a SSD.... are you I/O bottlenecked? Can you add more RAM?

Green drives are optimized for lower power consumption at the cost of performance. They are fine for bulk media storage but I would not use them for applications.

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