Hello everybody, I need a hard-drive of about 1 or 1.5 TB, and since I am not really up-to-date with the latest developments, I thought I'd ask people who have a better overall view of these things. My questions are: (1) Is it worth waiting a bit more until SSD drives become more prevalent, and then grab a cheap 1.5 TB traditional (electromechanical) drive? Although I need storage space quite badly, I'd be willing to wait a bit more if I had reason to believe their prices will drop sharply within a month or so! and (2) Is it true that large capacity (>1TB) traditional (electromechanical) hard drives are more prone to data loss and crashes than "normal" capacity ones (say, around 320 GB)? If so, are other technologies (such as SSD hard-drives, or perhaps even large-capacity USB flash drives) a better overall choice (taking both price and reliability into account), for the moment? Anticipated thanks for any replies, I really appreciate the help!
i'm not saying your questions are invalid, but it would be more relevent if you disclosed what you intend to use this storage for, as with HDDs the drive spin speed & amount of cache are relevent, however these specific items are irrelevent with flash drives (SSD / USB pen) so more info would help BTW: this computer storage wiki may help you sufficiantly no, generally you are less likley to lose data on a larger HDD due to the fact that most (if not all) HDD use S.M.A.R.T enabled HDDs & the more reliable perpendicular recording technique penetrates the medium more efficiently (about 3 times the storage density (MB per Inch))
