Hard disc confusopoly

[fivemack]

I have run out of disc space; I have a spare hot-swap disc bay in my computer; I'd like to put a 1TB disc in it.

www.scan.co.uk list thirteen models of 1TB SATA hard disc, ranging in price from £77 to £165, with no idea as to what differentiates them. I currently have three Seagate drives and a WD drive, so diversification suggests the cheaper Hitachi one, but that's a justification not much better than writing down the list and using a pin.

Given my curse, I wonder if I should buy two 1TB drives from different manufacturers and keep them as a RAID1.

Comments

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

1.5T is a good deal more expensive per T than the cheaper of the 1T drives, and 1T is already a very generous amount of disc space (significantly more than the total I have already), but otherwise it's quite tempting.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not a good deal more. Dabs do 1.5TB drives for 130 inc vat, which is less than 87 quid/G. If you're starting at 77 inc vat for a 1TB drive. Then it isn't a significant change.

I've bought 46 of the 1.5TB drives to store the work MP3 collection. We have to consider the overhead of one server for every 4 drives, so the price difference is totally negligible. Anyway, that's a totally different situation than yours.

[dave [earth.li] (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, I appear to have been signed out, that was me.