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    1730 Best 500GB Second Drive

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by terrain, Nov 8, 2008.

  1. terrain

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    Im in a similar situation to you. I also have the 128GBSSD as my main for the OS and am considering a 500GB as a second drive but not sure which is the best to get. I know that there will be 7200rpm 500GB before end of the year so maybe you should wait till then :)
     
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    From what I can gather the 7200 will not make much of a difference - especially since you already have a SSD as your OS drive. I was hoping that folks would chime in who have the 500's with their experience.
     
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    I always use Seagate. Very silent and cool. It is also the latest 500GB drive released so I would figure that it is most up to date.
     
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    I would wait a bit. The Hitachi 5K500.B is about to go Retail, and could be the best out of all the 500gigers, mainly due to the insanely low power consumption.
     
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    Andy - low power consumption is nice - and would be a great add to a 128SSD OS drive. I missed out on the sale so will look at this when its released.
     
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    The Western Digital drive is probably the better 500GB drive since it uses to 250 GB platters.
     
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    What is the advantage of 2 250's?
     
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    Higher disk density resulting in faster performance.
     
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    The 5K500.B has 2 250GB platters and states a R/W power consumption of 1.4W (1.1W less than the 2.5W of the WD5000BEVT).
     
    Andy, Nov 12, 2008
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