Fr Robert Ballecer, SJ Bryan Burnett Best hard low cost for $$ hard drives for Dell XPS 410? W...

[G+_Joel G. J]

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Bryan Burnett  Best hard low cost for $$ hard drives for Dell XPS 410? What is similar to the Dell's official OEM hard drive. Computer is ~10 years old. Sata2 ?Got an error message from Windows that both 320GB drives are failing. DON"T NEED SSD!!!!

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=342-3006&mfgpid=167776

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=342-3006&mfgpid=167776

[G+_Ben Reese]

There are probably better prices on Amazon (like http://goo.gl/DTPR09), but that should work. Might consider a cheap SSD though if it's a computer you'll be using much. Should breath new life into an old computer.

[G+_Joel G. J]

Are the Blue's a good option?

[G+_Ben Reese]

Honestly, I'm not real up on all their different variants and categories. I think Green is for power efficiency and Black is performance. Blue seems like it might be their budget friendly line and I think Padre has mentioned that Red is designed for RAID. This forum discusses the difference between Blue and Black some: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/282860-32-blue-black

[G+_Travis Hershberger]

That's just another desktop (sorry, but it is) so any SATA hard drive will work with it.  SATA is always backwards compatible, so if you get a SATA III 600mbps HD you can plug it into a SATA II 300mbps port and it will work just fine.

 

Let's face it, spinning hard drives will never keep up with a SATA II interface let alone a SATA III.  The only time you'll see a speed difference is when the drive has information being requested in its cache.

[G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ]

Joel J Let's work it in a different direction.

 

What do you want to be able to do?

How much do you need to store?

How redundant does that storage need to be?

How much do you want to spend?

 

-- Any answer for "the best storage" needs to have that data. :)

[G+_Joel G. J]

It's just a desktop & it's only a mediator computer to the laptops we have. Soo, the blue drives are probably what we need. FYI: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, I might post another computer question later in the group. This is an awesome community for all the queries I have :] ?