| Squilliam said: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284 $129 for 1TB of data. The bigger the HDD and the denser the platters the better the overall performance and it pays to never over-fill your HDDs to maximise performance.  |
Couldn't agree more. I was planning to put in an external raid assembly for all data storage because I want to have one central storage for more than one computer. That way the 500 GB drive is just for programs and sometimes data while being worked, so it should be never near capacity.
I was planning to use two Western Digital Caviar 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives which I have found to be rock solid for $75 each Housed in a SANS DIGITAL 2 Bay SATA to USB 2.0 / eSATA JBOD / RAID 0,1 / Spanning Enclosure
But thinking about it on second thought in a case with 6 120mm fans and 5 3.5in bays I should probably just get 3 of the WD 640GB drive and RAID two for data and use the third for programs and save the cost of the external housing. I can still netwok the other machines.
I think that may just about do it. Time to order?
