I am soon going to pay for a custom intel quad core pc to be built, would 4 x 1000gb harddrive make it slower?

Question

Specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Core QX6600 2.40GHz 8MB cache (4x2MB)
Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium Super Aero Cooler
Asus P5B Plus Vista Intel P965 Core2 Quad / Extreme / Core2
500GB 16MB Cache 7200rpm SATA
4GB DDR II 667Mhz RAM
20x Light scribe Dual Layer DVD +/- R/RW Drive
GeForce 7600GS SLI 512MB DDR2, PCI-E, Dual DVI, HDTV Out
High quality 7.1-channel audio with UAJ function
Ethernet with data transfer rate up to 1000Mb/s
Stylish Tsunami Black Aluminum (VA3000BNA)
Antec Phantom 500 Silent ATX12V2.0 500W fanless hybrid power supply (Fanless operation)
Internal Fire wire Card
Windows XP Pro
PS2 Keyboard is Included
PS2 Net Scroll Mouse is Included
22 inch flat screen HD monitor

I was thinking of being extra and going for 4 x 1000gb internal harddrives because I just want to be set and not need to upgrade anything for a long time.

1) do you think they would slow down my pc?
2) If i also connected my external harddrives would they also?

or would going for 4x 500gb harddrives be better?

I planning not to ever need to buy a harddrive again and not worry about harddrive space. You would be supprised how fast I had ran out of space on my external harddrives.

Maybe 4 x 500GB will be sensible?

Ive already filled up 2 external 500gb harddrives it isnt as hard as you think. I have a 300gb harddrive left but when I get this new pc I want to keep everything internal. Not everyone in the world uses their pc in the same way.

Answer 1

I think that you are right... GO FOR THE MAX.

External (USB) hard drives prove to be unreliable. Internal hard drives are the WAY TO GO. For LONG TERM backup, burn DVDs. Time consuming YES, but a good slow, finalized burn will last many many years.

1- slow down.. NO
2- external drives suck, but if you must, it won't slow you down. What I would do, is get an OLDER computer and hang extra internal drives on that. Then access those drives through your network. If you get a 1GHz switch, the two 100MHz network adapters will talk to each other very quickly. Someday, you will have 1GHz network adapters in both computers. Then the network drives will be like being INSIDE, but with a computer that will maintain the NTFS format structure and reliability.

Good luck and Happy Computing!

Answer 2

I was thinking of being extra and going for 4 x 1000gb internal harddrives because I just want to be set and not need to upgrade anything for a long time.

Well, you sure have that right. 4 Terabytes of storage is not to be sneezed at. I think you mean GB and not gb (there is a difference).

There is no direct relation between the speed of your computer and the size of your hard drives. What you want to know is how fast the hard drives are. You compare the 4 X 1000 to 500GB 16MB Cache 7200rpm SATA to the alternative.

If your 4 x 1000 hard drives are running at 10,000 rpm - you did not specify - then they would be faster than 7200 rpm drives.

Check out the transfer rates of the drives you are looking at, if you want to get absolutely the most out of your computer, but do not equate that to slowing down your computer The computer itself could be a bomb, in calculating, rasterizing and all its other functions, independent of the hard disk.

Now, if you want to use the computer for streaming data, then we have to take a slightly different view of your question, and the hard disk then becomes part of the overall performance rating. Again, it is the hard disk speed and not its capacity that has to be considered.

Answer 3

I would say you have more money than sense,

First of all software for the single 64 bit cpu has not been written to take full advantage of 64 bit system.
now why buy such a advance system only to run it at 32 bit,,

so one can expect it to be years before programmers get round to writing software for the quad core cpu. and another thing will Vista run on a quad core. MS will need to get that right for the 64 bit first...

why pay a high price for the 4x1000 gig hdd when next year they will be half the price. and why do you need 4 of them, you will never fill one up,

Answer 4

My Suggestion, if you want to stick to 4 x 1TB hdds.

I would not put them as internal drives. Its good to keep them external. I recommend a Network Attached Storage(NAS) system, which acts has an external file server and its connected to your Ethernet at 1000Mb/s. Brands like Buffalo and Synology are a good choice.

Keeping all 4TB as internal and when it gets filled over time, its going to be time consuming to retrieve data since its spread across such huge disks.

My 2 cents.

Answer 5

Mostly for Gaming I would say the Wolfsdale its 45nm and 65W which means less heat so its easier to keep a lower temperature. And most games to date only use 2 cores and thats only if they are supporting multithreaded CPU's

Answer 6

better bump the power supply up a bit .. but no not really if u put them in a raid array it will be faster than a single drive ... especially if u put the operating system on the raid ... also with that much hardware make sure it has massive airflow in the case ..

Answer 7

I have 2 x 200 gig hd's and can't seem to fill them, but if you want 3 terrabytes of space go for it, it will not make it slower

Answer 8

I'd stick with 1-2 TB for now, unless you're doing MASS video editing and etc... Also, when having such LARGE drives, its better to partition them so they don't have to work as hard.

Answer 9

If you are using 1TB disks, you had better invest in a RAID controller to keep it backed up. Just think if you had everything on one disk and it packed up.

Answer 10

dude... 4 terrabytes... what the heck do u plan on putting on that thing... there's no way u can fill up 4 terrabytes... that's insane, if u fill it up, then it probably would slow it down