HHD What is better and why - two drives @320Gig each or one for 640???
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There are advantages to both. The 320s in the ENVY 17 are both 7200 RPM drives. 640GB drives are 5400 RPM which makes them a little slower. Although at 5400 RPM they are faster then most other 5400 RPM drives because the data is packed more densly on the platters.
754617
I have one of these set up with standard drives and am able to run two VMs at the same time easily. I assume that SSDs would make it a bit faster though.
799929
for everyone this data will be of interest: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/these are big samples, 2014 data, and the models of HGST 4TB drives are outperforming others in terms of reliability as well as price/perf
865665
im currently using one with 750gb. So far so good. as long as its 2.5in SATA HDD should be fine.
1235418
Regarding use of multiple sized drives; you should not only use the same size, but the same brand and model if possible to avoid issues. The only configuration that this doesn't apply/mean as much to could be JBOD (Basically just one big data dump w/no redundancy). Data gone is gone:)
100780
if you want tons of storage and ultimate reliability, use this Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW, I just got it for a little over $500 on Amazon. if you dont want to spend that much money than I used WD Blue 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD10JPVT. Both seem to work fine.
147894
That truly depends on how much you are presently using on your 250 now. How much do you really need. That is a question that only you can answer. I downsized quite a bit and don't miss the extra at all. I do really appreciate the speed of the solid state drive.
2082982
I've used it for 9 DVD-Roms\Blueray drives just fine. You will have slowdown if they're all running at once, but I never had them drop like with other hubs.
474696
Great question. Simple answer, performance will be about the same, so go with the lower cost with higher reliability drive. For me, the choice was easy as it was quite a bit cheaper than the 7,200 models. A year later, I still love this little drive so I don't think you will have any issues if you follow in my tracks.
1128745
I'll be honest, I am a fan boy of Western Digital, and ASUS btw, but they don't make HD's. In the last few years, I've had more Seagate drives fail on me, than Western Digital. That being said, I am also hard on HD's, and being in Oklahoma, my PC runs real warm through half the year. I would def. go with the Blue WDEZEX for my money.
1668783
Any Western Digital RE drive is good for any raid type as thats what they're designed for I personally have mine setup as part of a 12 drive raid 5 array.
912011
Two 4TB drives. You can configure it to mirror those two 4TB, split it so parts if each file could end up on both drives (makes it very fast, but vunerable to corruption if either one fails), or separately to use them as two unique 4 TB drives for a total of 8TB.
1404587
Yes, no problem. I personally use a standard SATA drive through, I need the capacity. Works like a charm...
378104
Their is no problem with mixing various size drives. I did that until I eventually updated to all 4th drives.
577851
Not sure I understand the question? I have these two and they are working very well as USP drives ( 250 gig ).
1510554
Yeah, I fell for it, too. I thought I was getting 2x 4TB drives -- and it is TB, btw...not gb (which is 1000x less). I found it's only 2x 2TB drives. I believe you can change the Raid to 0, though...which will stripe data across both of them and you'll get nearly 4TB of storage. The only downside to this is if one fails, you lose the data on both. Make it more fun then...and add a 2nd one to the network and have them back each other up =)
2020842
One drive-likely no problem. You could try attaching 2 drives and might be fine, I am not sure. Again, to be safe, buy a "powered"hub.