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So i must change this old maxtor 200 gb hard disk...I plan to use only 1 hard disk (where i will install os and everything else)... Yet i dont know which one to pick, segate or wd...Neither if wb black or blue,only thing i know is that i want 1 TB hd...Any suggestion? Thanks

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So i must change this old maxtor 200 gb hard disk...I plan to use only 1 hard disk (where i will install os and everything else)... Yet i dont know which one to pick, segate or wd...Neither if wb black or blue,only thing i know is that i want 1 TB hd...Any suggestion? Thanks

 

Seagate Barracuda or WD blue

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So i must change this old maxtor 200 gb hard disk...I plan to use only 1 hard disk (where i will install os and everything else)... Yet i dont know which one to pick, segate or wd...Neither if wb black or blue,only thing i know is that i want 1 TB hd...Any suggestion? Thanks

Seagate barracuda or WD Blue. (WD black is higher performance but quite loud, and green is just poo).  Just make sure you get a 7200RPM one.

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Seagate Barracuda or WD Black.

 

The black is more expensive,louder, a little faster, but has a 5 year warranty.

Don't get a WD Blue.The Barracuda is better.

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Haven't used them yet as am just transferring data across, but with the five year warranty on WD blacks, I found them a pretty convincing proposition. 

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Blacks are great but noisy, so if that's a problem then the barracuda.
Could get a blue, but the only one I have experience with is like 6 years old (great drive though)

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Which one is more "reliable" western digital or Segate? Also,there is much difference in performance between wd blue and black? Since i heard wd black gets hot with bad case airflow (which is my case,this hard disk gets near 49° sometimes)

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Which one is more "reliable" western digital or Segate? Also,there is much difference in performance between wd blue and black? Since i heard wd black gets hot with bad case airflow (which is my case,this hard disk gets near 49° sometimes)

I think with either WD or Seagate you'll be happy. While I ran seagates for quite some time, I switched to WD not out of reliability concerns, but rather WD seem to create really specific products (Green for Eco use, Red I think for RAID, Black for performance on a 7200 drive, and the raptors). I build my machines for quite specific workflow uses, so this allowed me to 'tune' my storage.

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