How to choose the right 1TB hard drive

[Laramie]

Hi all,

Now all kinds of movies, music, etc. so much, which caused many users to demand more and more hard drives, in the past, "a hard drive to use rotten" era has become history. Many users of the processor, graphics and so did not want to upgrade, except the hard disk is "more to buy more to buy." From a comprehensive cost-effective point of view, is still the dominant 1TB capacity hard disk, and now we need to suggestion that how to choose a suitable 1TB hard drive. Thanks in advance.

[Fabian]

Cache size has a direct impact on the hard drive performance, especially the burst data transfer and random data access in these two areas, the daily run programs, games, etc. also need to drive in these two areas have a higher performance. But the cache size on the hard disk read and write speed sustained no effect, such as our copies of documents, a large cache on the hard disk will not have the advantage in speed. Check it and reply.

[RoninBlade]

32MB cache 1TB hard drive is the mainstream, using this buffer capacity hard drives, are generally time to market soon, and also has a lot of new technology, so the higher performance. Used as a very appropriate system disk. 1TB with 64MB Cache design of a product currently only Western Digital hard drive, and is the green version. Western Digital Green Edition hard drives are not biased towards performance, so performance is not outstanding, so the data warehouse more appropriate. Check and reply.

[deoWo]

While the looks are the 1TB hard drive, but the disc inside the drive number is different, single-disc capacity is also different. For instance, some 1TB internal hard drive to 250GB per platter using four of the disc component. Some house only two single platter capacity of 500GB disc. Greater capacity per platter, hard disk performance is definitely higher, such as the single platter capacity of 500GB to 1TB hard drive, performance, certainly higher than the single platter 250GB capacity. All the best.

[Rawko]

Of course, low-capacity single platter 1TB hard drive, the price will be even cheaper, if you are not on the hard drive performance requirements, only used to store movies and the like, the price of this product is still very attractive. A single platter capacity of the larger store data on a disc the higher the density, through the head at the same time, the greater the data area, so the head can more quickly locate and find the data, the hard disk seek time, internal data transfer rate will be increased and the performance of these two parameters for the hard disk has a vital role. In addition, the higher capacity per platter, the fewer the number of disc drives, the chance of failure will be smaller. Therefore, the choice 1TB hard drive, try to buy a single platter capacity of larger products. Best of luck.

[T.J.]

In the computer hardware, energy-saving trend, hard drives are no exception, and many manufacturers have introduced products that have declared energy-saving design. More suitable for long-term low-power hard boot the computer, such as downloading machine, office computers. In fact, ordinary hard drive itself around 15W of power also, like the boot time of less home computer, choose this energy-saving drive by saving electricity, and more, only the significance of the figures, I am afraid to use a bad hard drive, nor a few degrees to save electricity. Therefore, the user must be based on the actual needs of their own to choose, there is no need for blind pursuit of energy-saving drive. All the best.