I waslooking at a post by steviejones and it got me thinking about my situation so Ithought I would put it to everyone for their opinion.
Currently I am running an EVO 840 512GB SSD as my boot drive and it is runningfine and I still have nearly 200GB free but my data drive only has 150GBfree and is filling up fast and because I intend to keep the computer foranother 12 months I either have to start moving stuff off my data drive to astorage drive or increase my capacity.
Theeasiest option to increase would be to just install a bigger drive but the onlyHDD drive I could find that was bigger was the Western Digital Green Power WD20NPVX 2TB t been reviewed yet. Has anyone had experience with this drive andif so what were your impressions?
The second option would be to get a 512GB mSATA touse as a boot drive and another Hitachi 1TB Travelstar and raid them for a 2TBdata drive. This would be the most timeconsuming because it would involve replacing my current mSATA and then cloningmy current boot drive to the mSATA, then setting up the RAID and at the end Iwould have a 512 GB EVO sitting on my table not being used J
Cost wise the single Western Digital will costapproximately $250 - $300 and the mSATA + Hitachi would be approximately $350so cost either way is not an issue. I amleaning towards the single 2TB WD as the simplest way to fix my problem butwould like some feedback on the drive before I commit or an alternative that Iam unaware of.
Currently I am running an EVO 840 512GB SSD as my boot drive and it is runningfine and I still have nearly 200GB free but my data drive only has 150GBfree and is filling up fast and because I intend to keep the computer foranother 12 months I either have to start moving stuff off my data drive to astorage drive or increase my capacity.
Theeasiest option to increase would be to just install a bigger drive but the onlyHDD drive I could find that was bigger was the Western Digital Green Power WD20NPVX 2TB t been reviewed yet. Has anyone had experience with this drive andif so what were your impressions?
The second option would be to get a 512GB mSATA touse as a boot drive and another Hitachi 1TB Travelstar and raid them for a 2TBdata drive. This would be the most timeconsuming because it would involve replacing my current mSATA and then cloningmy current boot drive to the mSATA, then setting up the RAID and at the end Iwould have a 512 GB EVO sitting on my table not being used J
Cost wise the single Western Digital will costapproximately $250 - $300 and the mSATA + Hitachi would be approximately $350so cost either way is not an issue. I amleaning towards the single 2TB WD as the simplest way to fix my problem butwould like some feedback on the drive before I commit or an alternative that Iam unaware of.