Higher Capacitiy HDD

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:18 pm

I need verification...

I recently built a new computer

4gb Ram
2.80 Dual Core AMD (placed on a mobo with 8 SATA ports)
1TB Western Digitial Hard Drive (SATA)
Single Layer BD/DVD-DL/CD Burner (SATA)

I bought another 1TB HDD (2TB), and my roommate is going on about how if you have a hard drive higher than 320GB then the hard drive will corrupt and fail faster.

Is there any truth in this or is he jealous of my massive storage capacity.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Post by **lifeisbetterwithketchup** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:19 pm

Never heard of such a thing. I have a few HDD's that are >320GB, and I've never had any issues (that I didn't cause myself

).

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:21 pm

That's all BS.

The only thing about really big hard drives is some old BIOSes don't work with them right.

nitro2k01 · Post by **nitro2k01** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:06 pm

What I've heard (From a reliable guy who usually knows what he's talking about) is that some 1 TB drives are badly designed and will indeed fail faster. That applies only to the first generation of drives though. You should probably make sure your drive isn't manufactured during 2007.
320 GB has no relevance for this though.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:22 pm

All brand new. 2008/2009

My 2 TB combined HDD is working awesome by the way.

There is a poll in the room going about how fast I can fill up that drive

I have a can of coke set on 1 month.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Post by **lifeisbetterwithketchup** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:57 pm

nitro2k01 wrote:What I've heard (From a reliable guy who usually knows what he's talking about) is that some 1 TB drives are badly designed and will indeed fail faster. That applies only to the first generation of drives though. You should probably make sure your drive isn't manufactured during 2007.
320 GB has no relevance for this though.

Seagate has had some firmware issues with their 1.5TB/1TB drives lately. Mine's been fine thus-far though.

XCVG · Post by **XCVG** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:19 pm

What graphics card do you have in that rig?

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:38 pm

XCVG wrote:What graphics card do you have in that rig?

The the moment stock but the stock one is

DVI/VGA output
Onboard is ATI Radeon 2100

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:31 am

I hope you know that, the bigger the HDD, the slower windows will index files and the slower it will start up. I know this for a fact. Thus why on my moms PC, windows is installed ona 40gb drive, and her 1TB drive is a slave.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:43 pm

Au contrare, I have no problems with slow boot-up. Infact it boots up in a time from 1 minute to 1 and a half.

thewise1 · Post by **thewise1** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:32 pm

It doesn't matter how big the drive is as long as you have a fast enough rpm.

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:34 pm

HotDog-Cart wrote:the bigger the HDD, the slower windows will index files and the slower it will start up. I know this for a fact.

Well of course it will index slower, you think a terabyte of stuff will take the same amount of time to index as a 40gb drive?

And if you care that much about boot speed on Windows, get a slimmed down version of Windows and install it to a cheap 4-8gb SSD (With good speed, of course). I can boot Vista off this P4+512mb RAM computer in under 30 seconds easily.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:53 pm

How the hell can you people fill up 1TB of space?!? Are you downloading the internet or something?!?

SS

Twilight Wolf · Post by **Twilight Wolf** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:54 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:How the hell can you people fill up 1TB of space?!? Are you downloading the internet or something?!?

SS

Seriously. This laptop has a 120GB HDD; I've had it for two years and I still haven't managed to fill it up completely.

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:01 pm

Twilight Wolf wrote:
ShockSlayer wrote:How the hell can you people fill up 1TB of space?!? Are you downloading the internet or something?!?

SS
Seriously. This laptop has a 120GB HDD; I've had it for two years and I still haven't managed to fill it up completely.

our crashed computer had 60 gig hard drive, and it wasn't even half full after 4 years, wait maybe 5 can't quite remember

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