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Considering 4TB drive for Asus P9X79
This is a new one on me. I was just window-shopping for a larger
capacity drive to replace a perfectly functional 1.5 TB drive in my system -- don't really need one, just looking -- and I found what looks like a nice 4TB Seagate drive at Newegg for $190. Also found that Amazon has the same drive for the same price. Seagate Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000 4TB. So I was reading through the reviews and something just didn't seem right. One of the reviews said that "500 gig for $50 is a great bargain." Huh? That's when I realized that not one of Newegg's reviews was for the Seagate drive that was illustrated at the top of the page. (Well, I think none of the reviews was for that drive -- I didn't read all 1,990.) Newegg http://snipurl.com/26q5sev Very strange...so I went to Amazon, and guess what? Same drive, same price, same problem with the reviews! They're all for other, smaller drives! Amazon http://snipurl.com/26q5swv Weird. And no, I haven't ordered a 4TB drive and I don't intend to until I can find a set of reviews that address the drive I'm looking for. -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
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Considering 4TB drive for Asus P9X79
Bill Anderson wrote:
This is a new one on me. I was just window-shopping for a larger capacity drive to replace a perfectly functional 1.5 TB drive in my system -- don't really need one, just looking -- and I found what looks like a nice 4TB Seagate drive at Newegg for $190. Also found that Amazon has the same drive for the same price. Seagate Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000 4TB. So I was reading through the reviews and something just didn't seem right. One of the reviews said that "500 gig for $50 is a great bargain." Huh? That's when I realized that not one of Newegg's reviews was for the Seagate drive that was illustrated at the top of the page. (Well, I think none of the reviews was for that drive -- I didn't read all 1,990.) Newegg http://snipurl.com/26q5sev Very strange...so I went to Amazon, and guess what? Same drive, same price, same problem with the reviews! They're all for other, smaller drives! Amazon http://snipurl.com/26q5swv Weird. And no, I haven't ordered a 4TB drive and I don't intend to until I can find a set of reviews that address the drive I'm looking for. It does look like there's something wrong with the Newegg reviews. For example, when I listed a bunch of drives on Newegg, the listing said there were 2,930 reviews for the item. And considering they haven't been for sale that long, that sounded wrong. The actual page is showing only 22 reviews. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822236407 You can always look for an enthusiast site review. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...-review-3.html It's interesting, that in a quick search, the tech used tends to not be 1TB platters, but perhaps 800GB platters. So these drives are likely a bit on the "tall" side as well. Fitting five platters, think of the vertical spacing. Also in my quick search, there is a wide variation in rotational speed. The slowest I found, was listed as 5200 RPM. Another was 5900 RPM. The fastest was 7200 RPM. You have to be very careful when buying them - I've run into situations before, where they don't state the RPMs, because they're not proud of the figure. Rotational speed is a component in the seek time (since the sector you want, has to rotate under the head). So, yeah, by all means, spend a lot of time on the reviews. These look a little too new to trust yet. Paul |
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