I have an external hard drive that I use to backup my purchased and freeware downloads but I would like to run a full disk image and would like to buy an internal drive for that. I think I only need about 300 - 500 GB as this is only for FSX and the OS. I am shocked at how much drives cost now vs when I build my system 6 months ago and I wonder if anyone can recommend a cheap HD that will do the job.

 

thanks,

 

 

Mark.

Flooding in Asia caused the prices of HDD's to go through the roof. Although, the CEO of Seagate said that the prices should come back down by Q4 2012.

 

For a backup drive, I bought a 7200RPM CB and put it in a drive enclosure.

Does it matter if it is SATA2 or SATA3 ?

Does it matter if it is SATA2 or SATA3 ?

 

Not much, if the drive is a regular HDD, the speed difference is negligible. Also, most of the external drive enclosures are USB2 or USB3 which isn't even as fast as the SATA3 interface. So, at that point, it wouldn't matter at all if the drive is SATA2 or SATA3.

 

Your best bet is to get a cheaper 500GB HDD and get a 20dollar drive enclosure on Newegg. This is what I did and everything had worked flawlessly for the past year.

OK, probably just go with an internal drive then.