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Old 09-04-2011, 01:34   #1
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What Hard Disk Drive?
A mate of mine who is a photographer asked me earlier what 2TB hard disks would i recommend for a storage in his PC...

The Two i have picked are these, im just curious what people have in their opinions on them or if they have used them and had problems..

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/183971
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/237908
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Old 09-04-2011, 01:43   #2
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I would install 2x Samsung F3 1tb drives instead. All eggs one basket syndrom
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Old 09-04-2011, 07:16   #3
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
thats not an option so he needs just 1 2TB drive
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Old 09-04-2011, 07:24   #4
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
I have 3 of the WD 2tb drives and they provide about 1.81tb each once formated.

They are slow drives when copying something on to them from another drive and back, but as they are only 5400rpm that is to be expected.

To be honest I would go with the Samsung drive as they are normally quite reliable and quick drives.
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Old 09-04-2011, 07:51   #5
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
the samsung 2TB are also 5400rpm the WD has 64mb cache where the Samsung 32mb cache. Hes only using them as a backup drive anyway for storage.
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Old 09-04-2011, 09:29   #6
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They are both green which basically means some performance is lost to make them use less power

whats he gonna use to back the drive up? How important is data security to the guy?
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Old 10-04-2011, 01:58   #7
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
Well he has decided on the Western Digital. The reason being is he was told by a friend who is also a photographer he only uses Western Digital drives and are reliable so a decision has been made :-). I wonder how long it will last him with the ammount of pics he takes and the HD vids he has started recording to lol.
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
The Western Digital is "advanced format", so some care is needed to avoid losing performance due to 4k clusters not aligned with 4k sectors. Windows 7 should format appropriately for advanced format - I think there was a patch for XP, but I can't find it right now.
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
I woudn't recommend any hard drive for storage of photographs on a PC. Yes I have a copy on my PC, but also a copy on a mirrior'ed NAS 2 x1TB drives and soon a external copy on a offsite 500GB External USB drive. Covered everything there!
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Old 16-04-2011, 09:48   #10
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I use the cloud now for backups. Not just in one place either in a few
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Old 16-04-2011, 13:44   #11
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I use the cloud now for backups. Not just in one place either in a few

I have too much data to backup to any cloud service. And I would not trust any company with my data.
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Old 16-04-2011, 13:51   #12
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I encrypt it . Ive even got a few gig of photos on usenet rared up and encrypted. With usenet retention now hitting 3 years I only have to download it once every 3 years then just add to it and reup it again.

Most the stuff on my pc I could lose and get back when it comes to important stuff theres only text files which is tiny and photos which aint really that big even at high res

A 2000gig is a lot of photos imagine that dying on ya when its even only 10% full
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
Well thats what he has bought it was recommended to him by another photographer.
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Old 16-04-2011, 15:06   #14
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And thats his choice still think its a mistake myself specially if he is only saving the data to that drive and nowhere else

I only offer good advice its up to those I speak to whether to take notice or not
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
If he's a professional photographer his library of work is his main asset.

He really should be looking at enterprise-level data protection. Maybe a tape backup would be appropriate?
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