Hey all, i know there are a lot of tech wizards on here so thought i would ask peoples advice as i am trying to do it on the cheap, my second laptop went caput a few weeks back and i have been told its the sata hard drive has broke, so i am looking to buy a new hard drive pref a 1tb, i have seen some on ebay ranging from £25 to £50. Heres my question. Does the make of a hard drive make a big difference as i noticed there are a lot of hitachi and samsung drives, if it does make a big difference could some one suggest a good one for a reasonable price
Well my Samsung 1Tb has just given up on me so wouldn’t advise that - I’ve got a Hitachi in there as well and that seems fine - its the 7K1000.C 1 - gonna get another tomorrow to replace the Samsung
i always recommend western digital. theyve treated me right over the years of many, many, many desktop and laptop builds.
external, ive had two in over 5 years, and one of those two is still running - only got the recent one to take advantage of the macbook pro firewire port. lacie.
I have a bunch of 60gb ones here at work if you need one. Just pay for shipping. Tried selling them on here, but it was a no go. Check out the buy/sell thread for photos.
good brands of HD are western digital, segate, hitachi. They do come in 1 TB form @ 5400 RPM, i would go for a WD Black 750 GB 16MB 7200. Keep in mind that the 1 TB HD are 12.5mm and the regular size are 9mm. The 1TB are known to fit inside macbook & macbook pro’s. Check out www.newegg.com or www.amazon.com for deals
I think, not sure, but biggest 2.5" drives are 750gb.
Personally, I’ve a laptop running Mac OSX and a PC running Windows 7. I got a 2.5" USB powered external drive and use that to store music and can share it between both machines (using NTFS format).
Then, as long as you have 80gb+ hard drive on your laptop, you can copy over what you know you want to use to the laptop so Traktor will load/use the files quicker.
the 12mm 1tb samsung drives DO NOT fit in a macbook (atleast the Early '09 Unibody 13" Macbooks)
9mm is the way to go… but they dont make 1tb drives that big.
the 1tb samsung was like $100… i got a 750gb WD Scorpio Blue for $80 .. so thats deff not true (NewEgg is madddd quick to get shit to you too)
…also theres a lil snag with putting an optibay caddy in a macbook ('09 13" Unibody Macbook like the DJTT article about the SSD doubleswap) - so you have to do some extra modding to get it to fit.
I think, generally, it’s accepted. Most (maybe all?) laptops and Mac (as far as I’m aware) use 9mm think 2.5" hard drives. You can get larger ones but they then go to a 12mm thickness. This then means you have to mod your laptop/Mac, which is obviously up to you to do.
I think people state 750gb as largest 2.5" drive without having to move to a 12mm thickness drive.
I might be wrong here though as I have a Dell (and originally Windows) laptop beaten into submission and running Mac OSX.
