Hard Drive Decision

[SeanWilkes87]

Hey Guys,

 

I wanted to get a hard drive for my new build. I wanted to get a 2TB WD Black Series drive but this:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178646

 

Is almost $40 cheaper. Will this be okay to play games? I plan on Playing WOW and one player games like The Witcher, Dragon Age, Fallout, things along those lines. If you have any suggestions for something better but still under that $100 mark I would be greatly appreciative.

[Altecice]

Yup that drive does well.  Around 160MB/s Sequential Read/Write.

[Captain_WD]

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Hey SeanBlaze87,

 

Such surveillance drives have very optimized sequential read/write speeds, work pretty quiet and are reliable, but everyday computing and gaming actually use random read/write speeds and this is what these drives lack. For example, WD Purple is such a drive with great sequential speeds and very low noise levels, but when used in a regular desktop they would perform below most regular drives due to the low random read/write speeds. I'd still recommend considering a regular 7,200 rpm drive for optimal speeds. WD Blue and WD Black would be good choices, even though pretty much any drive would be sufficient enough for gaming because games rely on the storage's performance only for the loading times and FPS and graphics stay unaffected.

 

Captain_WD.