I was looking at these two:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/product...03~0~415574&prods=A1622011,A1628036


and not for any real reason. in fact, I can't tell the two of them apart.



I know nothing about hard drives.


I need something with at least 160 gigs just for a storage drive to keep all my music on.

I don't want to spend more then 50 bucks.

I don't need crazy performance, but I'd like it to not blow up on me.


suggestions? (and it's gotta be from dell's website. I'm broke so i'm using my dell credit thingy)

i'm actually on the market for one myself

Looks like it has enough partitions.

If you didn't know what MTBF meant....



Now somebody explain that to me.

I can't click on that but I just saw 500gb

for 50bucks

I always thought it was called mean time BEFORE failure....not between. I don't think theres really a standard system to come up with the MTBF so the manufacturers have some leeway as to how they come up with the number. Last i checked the MTBF for most hard drives was about 4 years. So if you leave your computer on all the time and it's more than 4 year old, you're running on borrowed time. You best be backing up and be prepared for failure.

Bottom line is ALL hard drives fail. Could be after 30 seconds of use, could be 30 years.....but ALL drives will fail at some point.

im living proof... I've had so many drives fail. that's why I have my second RAID box coming in tomorrow. up to 12tb right now.

I've never turned a computer I own off, but I haven't had any failure yet.

maybe I'm just lucky?

My last non-dell computer was an HP pavilion that I left on for litterally 7 years straight. The only time it was ever off is when the power went out in a storm.

it had a 30gb HD that was about 99% full from day one.

I usually don't feel bad for customers who come into my work with stupid problems but i felt sorry for this dude tonight. He bought a 500GB Seagate external drive a while back. Copied all his data to it. Formatted and restored his laptop. He then hooked the external drive back up to it and.......nothing. Thing's dead as a doornail. It couldn't have had more than 1 hour of use on it. I even hooked it up and scanned it with this recovery software we have and it came back as a physical failure.

I told the guy to contact seagate. they'll replace the drive but he's shit out of luck as far as his data.

dont be a pussy
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...42109-_-HardDrives-_-L0A-_-22148337

I have 6 of those... they are the best $ to gb, but they are universally untrusted. that's why the WD's are $159 and the seagates are $119 (that and the wd's are 500GB per platter).

I just checked out the 500GB that I RMA's and it's a 750. gay.
To put in my RAID I so far only have
1x1.5TB
3x500GB
2x750GB

lame.

if u dont have raid i think a small hd for the system and a huge one for storage is the way to go
meh@ software raid

actually one of my current hds just started making a clucking sound now and then I should probably get rid of it just in case

someone send me a link to a damn HDD I should buy.

I'm not reading this thread so internal or external?

I bought a little 250g passport that has been great, and we bought a 500g Iomega or something that corrupted immediately and lost all our music.

I know dick about this stuff but I can tell you you may want to avoid the Iomega.

pam, you are a photographer, when ever you buy one drive for storage, buy 2.
you always need your photos in 2 places of you will lose them eventually.

internal. 160 gigs ish

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098

49.99 free shipping 320 gig sata

yea the rev is correct most of my shit is expendable photos would blow to loose in large quantities

I burn them to disc, have them on my back up drive AND I pay 5 bucks a month to store them on an online back up thing.

3 places or they don't exist.

It was the music from Jon's computer that we lost, not my photos.

my seagate external just died, Im pissed, luckily all of my video is backed up on my desktop and my music is backed up on another external, all the other odds and ends just got raped as they were only backed up on my no defunct lapper crapper

so yeah, seagate, oof

"3 places or they don't exist. "

whoah... pam schooled me... I agree with you and have my photos in 3 places plus a year queue on a 4th. I want 100GB bluray discs so I can burn 2-3 months.

I learned the hard way losing a client shoot. Gone. Poof! Don't even know what happened to them.

o_O 100GB discs? WANT.

dont do anything rash like chuck em out. keep in mind that im a mondo techno nerdo. i could bring your shiznit into work with me an see if i can recover anything.

yeah, I'm not doing anything until I get a free second to see what kind of warranty it comes with, unfortunately I'm busy out the ass until after tour, which, knowing my luck will be JUST past my warranty's expiration...

there are 50GB DL bluray d's now... I want more!

plus a they are $21 for 2 50GB DL discs.