Harddrive Upgrades

[Dj Pudgey]

I was wondering what Harddrives you guys are running?

I just upgraded my internal drive to a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive. 750gb @ 7200rpm with 8gb of flash SSD.

http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard...tus-xt-hybrid/

what are you guys running?

[Sigma]

I'm only DJing at home these days so I haven't used my laptop in ages. Here's what I have in my desktop PC: -

Samsung 830 128GB SATA3 SSD
Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 2TB SATA3 HDD

[KLH]

I was wondering what Harddrives you guys are running?

I've got the Seagate 3ClickFlare 33rpm harddrive. It makes all my data funky... Can you dig it?

In all seriousness, for DJing purposes a fast harddrive isn't required. You can run the most demanding DJ app or DVS with a 4200rpm harddrive. Yes, the OS response may be slower than desired, but the DVS/DJ app's performance wouldn't be affected.

SSDs - like using >4GB RAM - are a luxury for DJ apps/DVS.

-KLH

[akswun]

How are you liking the Momentus XT? I was looking to get one for my MBP. Every time I wanna go out and buy one I get sidetracked by real SSD's. The prices are still not comparable but going FULL SSD seems to be one of the better upgrades for laptops. And yeah not needed for a DVS but at the same time having that extra kick in speed feels and works nice in the end of it all. It's not like I'm using a $1500 machine for JUST DJing.

[MouseAT]

I've been running an Intel X-25M G2 160GB SSD in my desktop PC a while (with a 1TB data drive containing less frequently used and non performance-critical stuff), and a 750GB Momentus XT hybrid drive in the Macbook Pro.

The full blown SSDs are definitely faster (particularly on random writes, as the Momentus XT only caches reads at the moment), but the Momentus XT is pretty quick on reads and application launches. I like it - it's a good compromise between SSD speed, capacity and cost. The Macbook is my day to day machine, and it's quick enough that I don't really miss having a dedicated SSD. Sure, I'd love an SSD in there if it was realistic, but they're just too expensive in high capacities, and I don't think anyone is making an SSD with a capacity greater than 500GB.

I would say avoid the first generation 500GB Momentus XT drives though - I've heard lots of reports of issues with those, but it sounds like the 2nd generation 750GB drives are better.

[VjQue]

Seagate hds are garbage the have a bad history of crashing and losing days.

I use Hitachi 7200rpm. The person that said it don't matter must don't know.

You get drop outs cause it can't read the data fast enough.

Western digital are good but Hitachi is the top.

I had a 3 seagates that went bad.

[DJNR]

Seagate drives are terrible, stay far away.

[akswun]

Seagate hds are garbage the have a bad history of crashing and losing days.

I use Hitachi 7200rpm. The person that said it don't matter must don't know.

You get drop outs cause it can't read the data fast enough.

Western digital are good but Hitachi is the top.

I had a 3 seagates that went bad.

But were talking about the Seagate Momentus XT... not the regular Seagate HD's.

[MouseAT]

I don't buy Seagate's desktop drives these days. They've apparently been declining in quality, plus they've been slashing the lengths of their warranties. I know they bought out Maxtor a few years back, and Maxtor drives were dire. I suspect that's where it all went wrong.

I'm not sure how things stack up on the mobile side. You'd hope that with the Momentus XT drives they'd be a bit more reliable as they're a premium product. I guess time will tell on that one. Unfortunately, no one else is making hybrid drives right now. If you want both speed and capacity in a laptop, you've got a lot of choice unless you're prepared to mess around replacing the optical drive bay with a second hard disk.

[roguedna]

Seagate hds are garbage the have a bad history of crashing and losing days.

I use Hitachi 7200rpm. The person that said it don't matter must don't know.

You get drop outs cause it can't read the data fast enough.

Western digital are good but Hitachi is the top.

I had a 3 seagates that went bad.

Failures happens to all manufacturers of hard drives. I used to build, upgrade, repair custom PC's and sell other hardware etc, for a living. In my 15+ years of system building, I've seen 3 Seagate fail with-in the 5 year warranty (they used to offer on OEM drives).

Others manufacturers with a higher rate of failure (from my experience):

ExcelStor / Maxtor / WD / Quantum

30+ IBM, all deskstar or deathstar (nick name) later taken over by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) and now part of Western Digital (WD)

Some problems are down to manufacturing or hardware issues but some are down to bad handling, HDD don't handle excessive vibration well.

Since most of the hard drive manufacturers have left or have been consolidated end users are now offered less in warranties and quality (in my view). The floods in Thailand didn't help pushing prices up (300+ % on some lines)

As hard drive technology moves on for some it will come down to price and or speed:

SSD is fast but very costly per GB and still new, in terms of proven life span

HDD are slow but price wise per GB they can't be matched.

At the end of the day no storage media is 100% failure free, so back up you data and use the warranty if it fails!