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Internal/External SATA drive for backup - 5900 RPM OK?
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Mar 15, 20262074 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm building a new computer over the summer. I'm fairly competent in computer hardware, and am thus building the computer from scratch. I have everything planned out, but I was wondering about a backup drive. I was thinking about having my main OS on a 300 GB WD Velociraptor (10K rpm) and my storag…
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Fix for: Internal/External SATA drive for backup - 5900 RPM OK?
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It doesn't really matter, especially if you're doing incremental backups. Though, looking on newegg it appears the 7200RPM Barracuda is $10 more... Anyway, I strongly encourage getting either two backup devices and rotating them from home->work/safe…
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