3 Terabyte hard drive round-up: Hitachi, Seagate, Western Di

Mr_Roboto · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:00 am

Hanners has posted a news article.

If you need huge gobs of desktop-level storage, then the currently available range of 3 Terabyte hard drives are probably the way to go. But which drives should you splash your cash on? Hot Hardware takes a look at models from Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital.

Read the full story here.

Quinn1981 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:19 am

Can't wait until this capacity is at ~$100. Six gigs for $200!

seraph · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:24 pm

TB's!

Quinn1981 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:54 pm

Sleepy. Missed lots of sleep last night. Long story. :mrgreen:

***CENSORED*** · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:31 am

3 TB hard drives are old news; it's 4 TB ones that are all the rage now.

Lukozer · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:48 am

Quinn1981 wrote:

Six gigs for $200!

For the hell of it i worked out that if this was the current price for 6gb, i'd have spent $150,000 on internal storage capacity.... yep, it's been a slow day today.

Quinn1981 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:13 am

RAGEMaster · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:49 pm

When I purchased my new rig, it came with a 1TB hard drive. My old system had a 80GB one! :shock:

I still have like.. 700GBs free. How the hell do you use up all that space??!

Quinn1981 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:07 pm

Torrenting... lots of steam games.

Lukozer · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:11 am

My Steam folder alone is about 540gb

***CENSORED*** · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:03 am

I'm stuck with a 200 GB hard drive on my laptop (my desktop hasn't worked in awhile), but have a 1 TB external drive as well.

I ran across a PC still being used with around 30 GB hard drive space recently. :ohdear:

(That was the total capacity it listed, not the free space available.)

Mendel · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:08 am

well I´d really like to see reasonably priced big SSD drives.

Currently I have no spinning hard disks in my computer. Just a 120GB Vertex 2.

It´s all about managing the space available. If you don´t need it right now, delete it. If you really want to keep it, hook up external hard drive and archive.

Quinn1981 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:23 am

That's what I've been doing. I try to stay away from huge disks for my system storage. It leads to me just having to do more cleanup. Throwing things on an external is easy and less time consuming. As I upgrade externals, I can keep throwing stuff on them.

3 Terabyte hard drive round-up: Hitachi, Seagate, Western Di

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