2TB gaming hard drive options?

[Frostbitebby]

Currently I have a 120GB boot SSd and 750GB WD blue, but the 750GB just isn't enough for me. I like to have a lot of games installed just in case I feel like playing them, as well as a boatload of media.

I can see the WD green is probably fine if I put my main games on the 750, but I have no idea if the slowdown would be painful to deal with when I do try to game off it. Any help appreciated.

(Also if you want to tell me 2TB is too much for a mainly gaming drive, I know what I'm about son)

[AlwaysFSX]

Seagate Barracuda, best for the money imo.

[ANewFace]

WD greens are pretty slow, go Black, or Blue

[Kyuubixchidori]

wd green is a slower drive. I love mine as I <3 silence and it stops spinning when not under any load. but its 1/3 slower then a blue. 

 

blue is a good standard drive Id go with in your case. 

[ictdude1]

a 2tb western digital black is a very fast drive which is perfect for games, if not a WD green is a good drive but may take abit longer to load (you will also have to wait for it to spin up since its a green drive it spins down when inactive)

[SkywardKkalox]

Currently I have a 120GB boot SSd and 750GB WD blue, but the 750GB just isn't enough for me. I like to have a lot of games installed just in case I feel like playing them, as well as a boatload of media.

I can see the WD green is probably fine if I put my main games on the 750, but I have no idea if the slowdown would be painful to deal with when I do try to game off it. Any help appreciated.

(Also if you want to tell me 2TB is too much for a mainly gaming drive, I know what I'm about son)

First things first.

There is nothing, classified as a "Gaming" Hard drive so please stop using the term "Gaming" for everything.

It's overused and wrong. Hardware is not only for gaming.

 

I would suggest a 2tb WD Blue.

[Razarza]

Seagate Barracuda, best for the money imo.

Or WD Blue, whatever is cheaper.

[crabcrabcam]

Put the main games you play on the SSD. Then go for the barracuda as recommended ^^^^^^

[ANewFace]

Seagate Barracuda, best for the money imo.

Did you see seagate's failure rate http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/419963-consumer-grade-hard-drive-fail-rates-2014-2015/

[JerkyMcDilerino]

Currently I have a 120GB boot SSd and 750GB WD blue, but the 750GB just isn't enough for me. I like to have a lot of games installed just in case I feel like playing them, as well as a boatload of media.

I can see the WD green is probably fine if I put my main games on the 750, but I have no idea if the slowdown would be painful to deal with when I do try to game off it. Any help appreciated.

(Also if you want to tell me 2TB is too much for a mainly gaming drive, I know what I'm about son)

Well, if you put Battlefield 4 on both HDD and SSD, you can tell that SSD will makes it load faster. However, if you are not rush person then get a HDD for gaming and SSD for OS or something else.

[SeanAngelo]

Currently I have a 120GB boot SSd and 750GB WD blue, but the 750GB just isn't enough for me. I like to have a lot of games installed just in case I feel like playing them, as well as a boatload of media.

I can see the WD green is probably fine if I put my main games on the 750, but I have no idea if the slowdown would be painful to deal with when I do try to game off it. Any help appreciated.

(Also if you want to tell me 2TB is too much for a mainly gaming drive, I know what I'm about son)

WD Black

Seagate Barracuda 

 

though i'd go WD because how reliable they are.

[TheMcSame]

Something from Toshiba or HGST (since they have some decent drive going for about the same cost as the barracuda with a better warranty). I'd avoid the barracuda, 1 year warranty is the industry phrase for "we're not confident about this product."

[colinreay]

HGST. Cheapest out of all of them, and the lowest failure rates by far. You can get it here. Don't be worried by the brand name, HGST/Hitachi is owned by WD, (Hitachi retains their firms.)

[Frostbitebby]

 

First things first.

There is nothing, classified as a "Gaming" Hard drive so please stop using the term "Gaming" for everything.

It's overused and wrong. Hardware is not only for gaming.

 

I would suggest a 2tb WD Blue.

 

I just used it in this case to emphasise the need for speed I know that hardware isn't gaming class.

Also the WD blue only goes as high as 1tb unfortunately

[LIGISTX]

Greens are actually not slower than anything else. Its all marketing. Greens can be turned into reds with a simple firmware change, which is only required if you want to use them in a NAS type scenario.

 

A green just has a VERY aggressive head parking firmware which saves on power and all that kinda stuff, but still a fine drive. No its not as fast a a black.... but for game loading it won't matter as they are all "slow".

 

The answer is, buy whichever drive is the cheapest

[TheMcSame]

Ignore all the snobs saying the WD Green is too slow, 

Drives with eco features are rarely decent, most of the eco drives that I've used have always been slow to access files when the drive has gone into its little eco mode. The only good drives with eco features that I've used are Toshiba's MD drives.

 

And the WD Green, isn't that more expensive than a lot of drives in a lot of scenarios?

[Luke]

wd green is a slower drive. I love mine as I <3 silence and it stops spinning when not under any load. but its 1/3 slower then a blue. 

 

blue is a good standard drive Id go with in your case. 

 

Isn't that just a setting under windows power options? My WD Blue turns off after not being used for for 15 minutes.

[Captain_WD]

~snip~

 

Hey there Frostbirebby,

 

Here are my two cents on this:

Gaming generally relies on the storage's performance only for the loading times and autosaves, and FPS and graphics are not affected at all. Only a few games that need to load huge texture packs while in-game (such as open-world games) can somewhat benefit from better storage performance. 

 

WD Green is designed for secondary storage and as a energy-saving drive that works cool and quiet. It parks its head and spins down more often than regular drives, but other than that it has good performance. 

 

WD Black has better performance, faster access times but is less quiet compared to WD Green. It would be more appropriate for gaming, but not necessary.

 

Here are a couple of links with more info on these two drives:

WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=BBMRLS

WD Green: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=zzu8Q9

 

Captain_WD.

[Phillip_Sam]

How about a seagate 2TB SSHD. They aren't much more expensive than something like a 2TB WD Black and you'll profit from the loading times in games.

[AlwaysFSX]

Did you see seagate's failure rate http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/419963-consumer-grade-hard-drive-fail-rates-2014-2015/

Oh god you actually believe that bullshit?

 

Or WD Blue, whatever is cheaper.

Blues top out at 1 TB.

[ShadowCaptain]

Ignore all the snobs saying the WD Green is too slow, they probably don't even own it.

I keep all my games and files on it and it's fine

 

Same been using one for years, is it ideal, no but it runs games just fine 

[TheProfosist]

WD Black? The Seagate SV35.6 I'd recommend for streaming umm idk just not a WD Blue or something low RPM.

[TheProfosist]

Did you see seagate's failure rate http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/419963-consumer-grade-hard-drive-fail-rates-2014-2015/

Specific recent issue was with 3TB drives if I recall and once that were made with a certain manufacturing tech. You shouldn't avoid a whole brand due to that, it happens to everyone from time to time.

[TheProfosist]

Something from Toshiba or HGST (since they have some decent drive going for about the same cost as the barracuda with a better warranty). I'd avoid the barracuda, 1 year warranty is the industry phrase for "we're not confident about this product."

In HDD terms that's it'll only last a year. For HDDs they shouldn't be trusted with crucial data outside their warranty. Your just asking for trouble.

Toshiba has some nice drives. They a bunch were originally made by Hitachi too since Toshiba got their design and manufacturing.

[Razarza]

Oh god you actually believe that bullshit?

 

Blues top out at 1 TB.

Ah so they do, my bad, I don't typically recommend HDDs after 1TB. Just kinda assumed they kept going up past that.