The most recent hard market can be described as constantly surprises, the price of high-end hard drive blew out, and in a few months ago is still the mainstream of the 80GB hard drive is now less than 430 yuan price reduction to the grade, will soon become the mainstream for the 160GB hard drive prices are around 600 yuan , this is probably the best for our customers happy thing. Face the temptation at this price, a lot of friends who must have the idea of expansion, right?
But the brand in the market although not as hard as countless board products, but these few brands of hard drives have enough headache for us, so today we talk together on the hard drive selection issues.
On the hard drive before purchase, we need to know about the current status of the development of hard disk drives and some basic knowledge. Two years ago, we heard the news that shocked everyone, that is, Big Blue IBM pulled out of the hard disk in the field, this is certainly a significant loss of the hard disk in the field, reviewed the history of the hard lot of breakthrough technology by IBM out research and development can be said that IBM and Quantum is hard to make a major contribution to the development of the company, but now has changed dramatically, and Quantum has been in the Maxtor acquisition, and IBM out of the hard disk in the field, he's hard drive sector acquired by Hitachi, but we believe that IBM's hard drive to hard drive technology sector also made many contributions to the development. More surprisingly, last week officially announced the acquisition of Seagate Maxtor.
We buy hard drive when nothing but the basic factors to consider the following: interface, capacity, speed, stability, cache, service, following our analysis of each.
1, the interface choice, we usually use are IDE hard disk interface, the new user is installed using the SATA interface, more, another specification is SCSI hard drives, SCSI hard drive even though there are many advantages of IDE hard disk can not be compared , but his cost of production has led to the price of SCSI drives are expensive, so could not use for ordinary users. Now there is a will shape an interface specification that Intel made the Serial ATA, Serial ATA, but really need to catch at least 1 year's time.
2 capacity, we Needless to say, and now drives the market has reached the maximum capacity of 500GB, this is really a very attractive volume, a year ago we are still to buy a 250GB hard drive and hard saving money it, and now the hard disk capacity has been upgraded to a 500GB much! While many of the capacity upgrade, but the price was still able to run out. From the purchase point of view, we should be in the acceptable range as far as selecting large-capacity hard drive, do not listen enough to the kind of 80GB, 160GB enough to the group, had win98 install an operating system with many of the software also only 7/800MB it, but now a Win XP 1.5GB would soon look like, plus some popular software, basically a fast 4GB; previous games only to MB hundred, if not smaller, but now the game easily 7,8 a must CD, so we can not imagine there will be after the game how much the operating system and the capacity, but one thing is certain, it is growing. So do not hesitate to buy the hard disk has a capacity of bigger is better. However, we point to note is to buy large capacity hard disk platter, platter-capacity hard disk performance hard drive smaller than the single platter high.
3, As for speed, we have to consider it carefully, because even the same capacity of hard drives, 7200 and 5400 a difference of more than 100 yuan transfer range. From a performance point of view, 7200 has not more than 5400 small upgrade, so 7200 is more suitable for computer hard disk enthusiasts, 3D gaming enthusiasts, professional audio video mapping and processing people use, but 5400 RPM drives are more suitable for notebooks.
4, the stability of a strong hope that no one has their own system, but if we bought a large capacity, fast hard drive, but the stability of a bad happens, it will be just as tragic thing, so we When the optional hard drive to ensure the principle that things are not out to buy the latest things are not buying as much as possible, simply because something is definitely out of the capacity of small and technologically backward, it does not take long after buying the time will feel the embarrassment out of date; and new products too expensive and I will not speak, mainly used in new products, new technology just is not very mature and complete, so would inevitably flawed.
5, buffer areas can actually be much, because most of the hard disk must 2MB of cache, the majority of SATA hard drives using only 8MB of cache. Large-capacity cache can be significantly improved hard disk performance, but the price at this stage there is some bias you, but we can state in accordance with their own funds to buy.
6, warranty, this is a buy almost all of the problems to be considered, especially expensive things. When hard work is always in constant high-speed operation, and the drive is very fragile thing, no one wants all his important data easily ashes. In China, for the hard drive service and quality assurance in this regard to do the various vendors also are good, especially the brand of box is also to provide consumers with quality assurance of three years or five years, but remember this: 千万不要买 parallel hard disk.
Learn about the optional hard disk in it should be noted some of the major issues, we are asked to pick the brand. Popular market in the main hard drive, Hitachi, Maxtor (Maxtor), Seagate (Seagate), WD (Western Digital) and the rarely seen Samsung and Fujitsu's hard disk.
Hitachi hard disk drives grew out of IBM, has always been a very good reputation and a lot of users, performance, outstanding performance in its class.
Since the annexation of the Quantum Maxtor hard drive after the growing appetite began to compete with industry leader Seagate introduced the use of their DiamondMax 9 / 10 on behalf of the hard disk, the disk is clearly a lot of Quantum hard drive with a shadow, though This is not a very good technology, but since he can survive on the show that he still has enough strength to occupy part of the market share. Maxtor hard drive, but the biggest disadvantage is the price too high, apparently weaken its competitiveness. Maxtor hard drive, but after-sales service and quality assurance of commitment to the hard drive of all brands is the best.
Seagate hard drives has always been the field boss, has the highest market share, the reason is very simple, it is inexpensive. Seagate Barracuda 7 mainstream current generation of single platter 80GB hard drive is also a 7200 product, but the Barracuda 9 on behalf of the hard drive is the first single or 160GB hard drive. Seagate hard drive to our previous impression that in addition to the high heat is noisy, but the Barracuda 9 on behalf of the hard drive completely changed the landscape, and still maintained a price advantage, so too is a good choice objects. At the low end, the Seagate 7200.7 series drives also have a very good market performance.
WD hard drive in the launch of BB / JB Series a few years before, has been in dire straits, whether it is performance, quality or price are not very satisfactory. However, WD introduced BB / JB Series hard drive after, WD's image has been greatly improved, the performance is not the best, but the noise and heat control is very good, also have their own advantages.