1tb Hard drive

[J1mmy]

I'm looking for a 1TB hard drive available from an American retailer online.

I can't seem to search for the cheapest price myself as Google is defaulting results to the UK retailers. I also guess that you'd probably know the best price for hard drives too...

I've looked at Newegg, does anyone know of any online palce @ less than $179?

[ShyguyXPC]

right now 1TB drives are going to be pricey, even 750GB are still up there, only relatively recently have I seen 500GB drives on sale for under $80-$100 range over here in the states.

but I'd recommend using Pricegrabber.com to check for pricing...

to get you started... 1TB to 2.9TB Internal SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives - PriceGrabber.com

[J1mmy]

Thing is, I only have 3 slots in my case, so I need to be selective in the capacity of drives. The case is small, but I can support up to 6 drives

[GroundZero3]

I would suggest looking at the Hitachi drive 1Tb its a little bit more but haven't heard of any failure complaints. Some friends i know have bought the WD and Seagates with them failing in the first week.

[J1mmy]

Yes, I might be going with the Hitachi, but I can't wait for their new drive, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B.

Is it possible to connect these SATA drive in RAID 0 - I believe this is the faster config? I hope it doesn't affect my current primiarly SATA connect drive.

[KarmaKiller]

I found a couple for under $179 at Zipzoomfly..

SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS Hard Drive Bulk at ZipZoomfly

WESTERN DIGITAL WD10EACS 1TB SATA 7200 RPM 16MB Hard Drive at ZipZoomfly

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB SATA 7200 RPM 32MB Buffer Hard Drive at ZipZoomfly

[ShyguyXPC]

yep, if your motherboard has an onboard RAID controller/chip you can do it that way (most onboard chips will support at least RAID 0, & 1, if not both of those plus 0+1 config, as well as many newer ones also support RAID 5, then of course there is the bastard child of RAID, JBOD...)

or you can do it another way, setup a "software" RAID 0 setup, currently thats how I have my 80GB x2 setup in RAID 0, have to do it with in Windows, in my case, WinXP, using Computer Management (if I remember right, been awhile since I messed with it), not sure about what the steps in Vista are.

but there are at least 2 ways of running RAID 0 in windows, either Hardware using onboard motherboard controller, if it has one, or software from with in Windows. Windows Method is easiest to set up, but from what I hear Hardware is the best method. won't be messing with that aspect myself for a week or two.

[J1mmy]

Would I need any extra hardware, such as cables for this? And how would I know whether my board supports it, the board is in my sig.

[Mickwish]

Windows Software RAID Guide

Cheers
Mick

[ShyguyXPC]

Originally Posted by J1mmy

Would I need any extra hardware, such as cables for this? And how would I know whether my board supports it, the board is in my sig.

Originally Posted by Mickwish

Windows Software RAID Guide

Cheers
Mick

Thanks mick, I think I used a similar guide when I did mine too, have it bookmarked around here somewhere.

Jimmy, I looked up your board on google, simply used Newegg for the info, from what I found was this...

Newegg.com - ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus LGA 775 C55+MCP55P; a.k.a. nForce 650i SLI & nForce 570 SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

If thats the same board, here is what it says for your storage capabilities...

Storage Devices
PATA 1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max
SATA 3Gb/s 6
SATA RAID NV RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD

NV RAID, is just nvidia's RAID chip, so in this case it supports Hardware RAID for the SATA drives, supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5 & JBOD (JBOD isn't really an official form of RAID, and it just mean Just a Bunch Of Disks, basically combines as many drives as you want of various sizes into one Volume)