Top Internal Terabyte Hard Drives

This guide will list the top four internal 1TB internal hard drives for a desktop PC. If you’re familiar with my previous guides, there is no particular order in which these hard drives are listed. Of course, you may notice that the list is a little bit light. The reason for that being that there are only a few manufacturers at the moment who produce internal 1TB drives.

Features

• 5 year warranty
• Easy to install
• 32MB buffer
• Rapid data-access time; one of the fastest around
• Light on power consumption
• Competitive pricing

Drawbacks

• Virus scanning on the disk takes a little longer in comparison to other 1TB drives

Costs roughly: $245

Features

• 3 year warranty
• Designed to consume less power but without sacrificing productivity

Drawbacks

• Buffer is only 16MB. It’s not bad, but the Seagate drive contains double by comparison
• Data-access time is slower compared to other hard drives
• Gets a little noisy at times
• A tad expensive

Costs roughly: $210

Features

• 3 year warranty
• One of the first 1TB hard drives available
• 32MB buffer
• Performs well under virus scan

Drawbacks

• Data-access rate is slower compared to other drives, but is mostly steady

Costs roughly: $230

Features

• Solid data-access rate
• One of the faster performing hard drives currently on the market
• Performs with little noise; very quiet

Drawbacks

• 1 year warranty only
• A tad pricey

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