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nice, I myself would chose Western Digital WD1001FALS 1 TB (Caviar Black) for it’s price and the fact that I like my memory inside the computer instead of external. I might have to buy something like this myself soon, backing everything up on DVD-Rs takes ages now. I got about 100 GB left, I’m in need of backing things up again :X

Well, since my Mediaserver’s running smoothly, I don’t have any space problems anymore . So I would take the WD1001FALS. One HDD more for my Server ^^. Since I have about 3 External HDDs I don’t need another one. But if you alot on the road the other one would fit better ^^.

i don’t really have a use for carrying around an external drive from place to place, so i’d go internal… but this is about you, not me ^^;; as long as you’re using esata i think it just boils down to whether or not you want to pay ~35€ for the external drive’s portability.

If you have the space, internal all the way. All I have at home is a laptop and 2 external drives (one is a portable that gets all its power via USB and the other is a normal external). It’s kind of a mess. Plus the internal just has better performance. Have you felt the need for a portable drive or is it just one of those hmmm…might be nice to have sort of things?

Jedenfalls kein Western Digital, denn die sind dreckslaut und geben ein unregelmäßiges *klack* von sich. Herumschleppen? Teilen? Kaum sinnvoll möglich, wenn die Platte verschlüsselt ist. Und guten Freunden gibt man vielleicht ein Küsschen, aber weder Schlüssel noch Passphrase. Für solche Zwecke reicht wohl auch eine kleinere und wesentlich günstigere Platte mit 100-200 GiB. Die externe Platte ist jedenfalls zukunftssicherer und flexibler, aber bei einer Halbwertzeit von 1-2 Jahren mag das egal sein. Außerdem spielt die größe des Host-Gehäuses keine Rolle, falls man sich ein Mini-Case zulegen will. USB drückt mächtig auf die CPU bei hohen Raten, da könnten HD-Filme ins Stocken geraten, wenn man sowieso schon am Limit ist. Ansonsten hat man mit einer externen Platte weniger thermische Probleme und geringere Geräuschentwicklung. Die externe Stromversorgung kann nerven, dafür hat man keine Probleme mit einem zu schwachem Host-Netzteil.

Wenn USB reicht, dann gibt es Maxtor Basics mit 1 TB Kapazität wahrscheinlich günstiger.

What? Really….? Your 1 TB Internal is almost full? The desktop i bought in late 2007 has an internal HD with a total of 177 GB. Today i have 51.7 GB of space left. You must save all types of good things in your HD to fill in 1 TB. Astonishing.

Then again i only save Anime torrents, and anime i actually enjoyed.

I can’t make a conclusive decision since i plan to get an external HD myself as well. But i’m not going with anything close to 1 TB of space. I need another 300-400 GB. x]

I choose Asa senpai! Im ernst: Ich habe keine Ahnung von HDs und kaufe sie meistens wild, bzw. gerade was mir zuerst in die Arme läuft. Der Grund, wieso ich ca. 21309842384 verschiedene interne und externe HDs besitze. Bah. Sollte mir lieber mal ne richtig grosse kaufen. Eine mit 500 TB. Oder so.

Also wenn man sich schon bei Hardware nach dem Gehäuse-Design richtet, dann doch bitte gleich eine begehbare Cray mit Springbrunnenkühlung und Sitzgelegenheit. Dieser gräßliche Kasten von LaCie mit blauer Notauskugel ist doch eine Beleidigung für jeden Sehnerv.

Ich habe so ein Gehäuse mit “blauer Notauskugel” (750 MB, FW800) als Time Machine Volume. Bisher kann ich nicht klagen – “flüsterleise” ist die LaCie Platte aber nicht.
Wenn noch Platz im Käfig ist, gilt IMO “internal > external drive”.

Übrigens: Ist diese Verknüpfung “Jap XP Prof” ein 1-Click zur Japanisierung deines Windows? Nötig für einige Eroge Lernprogramme, also durchaus praktisch, wenn man nicht 2 VMWare Images rumliegen haben möchte.

Why do you insist on a WD?

Samsungs are much easier on the wallet and still high-quality.

I got fed up with HD space issues some time ago and just bought 8 1TB drives and a RAID controller.

Works like a charm. Just don’t use WinXP 32-Bit when you do that.

Being limited to 1TB would make my head explode.

Warum schreib ich eigentlich auf Deutsch?

Guckst du hier: http://geizhals.at/a260889.html

Bin allerdings Deutscher. Ich hab kA welche Österreichischen Versandhändler vertrauenswürdig sind. <.<

Have 8 F1 spinpoints in here. They’ve been working like a charm ever since I bought them several months ago. No failure yet. WDs are loud in comparison.

And I said NOT to use XP x86. Me do not want either.

If you want to make sure that the disks are alright, test them for a couple of days by filling them completely with arbitrary data. This stress would also expose thermal problems. Most of the time, disks fail soon after purchase – as you wrote yourself – or never.

Also I’d never listen to bashing of HDD vendors or models because you can find such slender for virtually every single of them. It’s just when people loose data, they’ll be extremely pissed of and become unreasonable. Millions of satisfied users won’t comment at all or even know what kind of HDD they have in the first place. In reality, HDD failure is almost always PEBKAC or thermal issues.

Good to know that Halconnen agrees with me about WD loudness. You might not realize it until you’ve used something else.

Indeed. The Samsungs are silent enough that I only hear them when they spin up. Unless some odd vibration problem of the case pops up that I didn’t quite yet find the source of.

And that’s what the RAID configuration is for. RAID 5 and you won’t lose any data. And if they fail in the first few years, it’s a warranty problem, so you won’t even have to pay for the replacement drive. =/

I need a new hdd too^^”

But, I think I buy a Samsung F1 with 1tb. I have two 500gb hdds from Samsung and absolutly no problems.

I know, at the beginning there were many problems with the F1 but now I think and hope xD it is better.

But the 1,5tb hdd from Seagate would be nice too^^

I will need a new HD soon, too
but i will wait some time…
my problem is: the biggest part of my Pc is…crap..
low-class x1800 gto, IP4 with 3.06…this stuff..
if i buy an internal with 1TB it will just say goodbye and i won’t get nothing runnig smoothly…
same with an external, though…
but cause ogf my upcoming oneyear abscence from my homebase its useless to upgrade now…so i will have to get along with my old HD >.<

theres never enought of hdds ^^;
I have laptop so internal hdd is a nono for me. Thus I ended up with externals… oh I rember when i got 1st one 500GB and thought that I will never fill it -_-

currently:
5x 1TB WD My Book Essential 2.0
2x 500GB WD My Book Premium
1x 500GB WD My Passport Studio Turbo

so far HDDs proved to be good. only one of Premiums (2 year old) starts to act strange. dunno if its cuz its old or I damaged it with some mass transfers when getting new ones -_- basicly after transfer of alot of data hdd drops speed and eventualy I loose all comunication with it. only way to see data on it again is to reset it. also it gets a bit hot -_-

what I like on externals aside of portability, is that I can plug them only when I need them. Thus bit prolonging their lifespan I think. Why have hdd start up each time i turn on the machine. And unpluging sata or power in case would be a bother ^^;

If you are always on the go, the external would be the best choice, otherwise, the internal is just as nice . You can never have too much space ^^;;. I just recently build another PC for storage only. 6×1 TB HDDs running raid 6 so net space is 4TB and I probably fill it up less than 1 year >.>