Good place to buy a 10,000rpm drive in Los Angeles

[cinealta]

I've had good luck with Fry's but they are in OC (Fountain Valley). There may be one in South Bay (Manhattan Beach?). I've had good luck with Seagate Cheetahs in the past. Not sure how their QC is currently.

[charlieclouser]

There's Fry's stores all over the place - not just in the OC. Burbank, Woodland Hills, etc. They have a wide variety of bare drives at good prices, but their stock is not consistent - you kind of have to just head on over and see what they've got. Also check carefully to insure that the drive you're buying is still factory sealed and not a return / repack.

You might also try Melrose Mac, who specialize in AV hardware - they are likely to have some high-performance drives on hand.

[rockitrecordings]

I'm pretty positive that on Fry's online website they can check which store has what. So you don't have to go running around to 5 different stores. The one in burbank seems hit or miss with drives. Either they have a ton or almost none at all.

[TimOBrienFlorida]

You may be disappointed with a 10k drive.

They are noisier but not that much better performing than a 7200rpm drive.
Waste of money....

[Buss-me]

Thanks for all the tips..... I had thought of Fry's. I use to go to the Burbank store when I worked out there. Only thing with Frys is that I always seem to get a headache when I go there .....maybe it's some physical aversion to it??

Now regarding 10,000 drives not being worth the money spent..... I just found this article from 6 yrs ago. Does this guys summery still apply today??. Again, I've never used one before, only used 7200 drives. Was really ready to pull the trigger on this

How higher RPM hard drives rip you off | ZDNet

[Jeff D.]

Just get an SSD drive. Many times faster, and available at Best Buy etc. as well as Fry's.

[Mr. Light]

^^^^what he said^^^^^^ blindingly fast. I have one in laptop and one runs the PT rig. Stupid fast.

Hard drives are quickly becoming obsolete

[eddie.machete]

Yea I think everyone is moving to SSD for performance mate. Still a pricey option though. If I had the money I'd be all SSD.

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[Buss-me]

Thanks........ I had considered a SSD when I built my computer 2yrs ago. Unfortunately they were way out of my budget range.
They're still pretty pricy for me. Looks like they're averaging almost a dollar a gig!. I know the prices will drop eventually.
My OS drive works just fine...... it's my work drive where all my sessions are stored, that is in need of a big upgrade.
For the sake of argument, Is there a particular SSD that people are liking these days?.

[eddie.machete]

Might help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92kC...e_gdata_player



Thats from my phone not sure it will work. This guy is quite informed on many levels. If the link doesn't work just search dj vespers SSD. External drives have come a long way too though. My hd is full right now I'm just getting an external 2tb on USB 2.0, dirt cheap now. I expect SSD to come down in price around the same time USB3.0 starts becoming the new standard. Not sure if helped much there. Cheers.

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[eddie.machete]

Is that really Charlie?

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[davey boy]

I just installed a Crucial 512 gb drive ($400 from Amazon) for my main startup drive and it's like my four year old Mac is Turbo charged. I'm goi g to get one for my audio drive as well. In the meantime for an experiment input a biggish project on it and played it back. On the normal 7200 rpm drive the hard drive meter was close to 50% in Logic. The same project running from the SSD was bare registering. Plus, they're quiet and don't put out a lot of heat.


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[kasmira]

The difference between a 10k drive and a 7.2k drive are small. Noticeable, but small. The difference between SSDs and 7.2k is huge. Completely obvious from every side of the spectrum. If you have a Z68 chipset mobo you can use up to 64GB of an SSD as your cache for a standard drive - it will automatically store all hot data (that is, commonly used files) on the SSD, while storing all cold data on typical hard disks. I have my computer set up this way and it's awesome.

If you're running RAID with multiple drives in parallel the difference between 7.2k and 10k are more noticeable. Most 10k drives are noisy though, too much so for me.

For SSD brands, Crucial and Intel constantly have the highest ratings and the least amount of RMAs. Corsair makes blazing fast ones, but a few months back a lot of people were having firmware issues...that may be fixed now, though.

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[Jeff D.]

Originally Posted by kasmira

For SSD brands, Crucial and Intel constantly have the highest ratings and the least amount of RMAs.

I've got 2 120GB Intel's for current projects, and cheap 2TB USB drives for completed projects and backup. The cheap drives work fine for the occasional revision to old projects also, no need to transfer to the SSD.

[Syncamorea]

Originally Posted by Buss-me

Does this guys summery still apply today??

If you have big storage needs, like TBs, then it's a no-brainer. 10k drives have gotten a little faster in recent benches.

The 500GB Raptor is $210. WD claims 200MB/s sustained read and write and my experience has been in that ballpark. The 1TB VR is $270. The sustained read spec on a competitively priced (~$170) 256 GB SSD is about the same as the VR for sustained write and maybe 15% faster sustained read. But all you have to do is jump up into the ~$225 range and 256 GB SSDs spec at about double the sustained transfer rates as the VR. It's great to see the bang per buck coming up on SSDs. I wish their reliability would improve faster.

[flashofthedark]

I know it's not a lot of people's cup of tea, but I've been buying 300GB Velociraptors used on eBay for a while now for $60 + free shipping. It's true that SSDs are much faster, but unless you're getting a high performance newer 7200 RPM drive, the Velociraptor is noticeably faster. You are of course only getting 300GB, but that's what I go for on a budget when I want something fast and cheap.