Some advice re large capacity hard-drives please

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!

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(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!

Its definitely better to be safe than sorry if you are going to be saving important files on the drives to have a couple small ones for backups. But there is no real certainty when a drive could go out on you.
I recently picked up my first 1TB drive, its a Hitachi, i went el cheapo on it because it was only going to store movies, games, etc. Nothing really that i couldnt always download again.

I personally prefer Seagate drives since my experience with them has always been great, i havent lost a single seagate drive yet. My next choice are western digital drives, i have had one die on me.

check out my signature, you'll see :P

If you ARE concerned with a drive dieing you could always buy a pair of drives (not necessarily 1TB's, im sayin like 500's)or something and set up a Raid array. If the data you are trying to preserve is of great importance that you wont want to lose. Of course at that point u shud be backing them up to dvds' or cds too lol

Prices will always continue to drop on drives as technology improves. I bought my first 120 gig for 250CND 7 years ago or something, i bought my 1TB drive for 90CND 2 months ago lol.

Heck i bought a 1GB memory stick pro duo for my psp for 120CND!!

SSD is expensive yes, but they are too expensive to justify the cost if you are just going to use it for data storage.

Thanks for your reply ManaVampire. I'll probably just go with a traditional 1.5 TB for now.

Hi, i recommend this 1.5TB WD Hard Drive @ dell,very decent price.