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jhup
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It is time again to buy a pack-of-20 hard drives for various purposes.

Where do you get this consumable?

Have you thought of getting a box of SSDs?

 
Posted : 14/10/2010 2:59 am
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I usually get them at newegg.com….i haven't had the need to get 20 at the time (yet), but they carry them in 20-packs.

 
Posted : 14/10/2010 3:19 am
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any specific brand and model you prefer?

 
Posted : 15/10/2010 10:05 pm
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I just received a shipment of 35 2.5" HDDs from a private source, but we (my lab) order them from newegg, cdw, tigerdirect and many others. Before we use them we put a few into a hex viewer to see if they are new or referb. 99% of the time they are new and have zero issues with them.

 
Posted : 10/02/2011 8:02 am
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I have been using the Segate Barracudas a lot and have been happy. New Egg should have OEM 20 packs. Hitachi next. Nothing "green" from any of the brands. Sometimes I find they just act funky - maybe something on their controller cards for the energy saving - could just have been bad luck though.

 
Posted : 10/02/2011 9:38 pm
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Have you thought of getting a box of SSDs?

SSD; around £2 per GB.
HDD; around £0.20 per GB.

 
Posted : 10/02/2011 10:57 pm
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Have you thought of getting a box of SSDs?

SSD; around £2 per GB.
HDD; around £0.20 per GB.

cost benefit analysis on time of throughput speed over life of drive versus initial extra cost . . .

 
Posted : 11/02/2011 5:05 am
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Have you thought of getting a box of SSDs?

SSD; around £2 per GB.
HDD; around £0.20 per GB.

cost benefit analysis on time of throughput speed over life of drive versus initial extra cost . . .

Throughput of sequential data is definitely not the value proposition of SSDs. Especially if most of your source data is on rotational drives. I have my FTK3 DB on an SSD and it rocks, but working image is still sitting on a RAID for processing after initial capture to a single 7200 RPM drive in most cases.

 
Posted : 16/02/2011 10:43 pm
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Agreed.

Most of my work revolves around very small files, not accessed sequentially.

To me the cost/benefit ratio is much closer . . .

 
Posted : 17/02/2011 1:54 am
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I just received a shipment of 35 2.5" HDDs from a private source, but we (my lab) order them from newegg, cdw, tigerdirect and many others. Before we use them we put a few into a hex viewer to see if they are new or referb. 99% of the time they are new and have zero issues with them.

I am new to the field as I am still in school waiting to start my core classes. My question is how exactly do you get hash value on a new hard drive?

 
Posted : 29/06/2012 7:00 pm
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