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Personally I went with the red pro because you get 5 year warranty. Its a good drive I just installed it in my sistem and it is very quiet A small tip if buy it from newegg and you pay with PayPal you might qualify for PayPal credit and PayPal will give you 50 dollars for filling out the application. I bought a 14 gig drive for 195 dollars. ( wont ever use it again but its 50 dollars) What is your budget? I would go with the WD red pro do to its price Bellow I will post some quotes from other members and there opinions they gave me. Hope it helps

Can you send links ? That way I know I am looking at the same thing you are. Also is your machine / server on all the time? give us more details on how you play to use them I was recommended to buy one of these drives WD Red Plus https://www.newegg.com/red-plus-wd20efzx-2tb/p/N82E16822234463 WD Red Pro https://www.newegg.com/red-pro-wd4003ffbx-4tb/p/N82E16822234345 WD Gold 4TB https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd4003fryz-4tb/p/1Z4-0002-013V8 What is the difference between red Pro and red Plus?

Thank you for all your help I really appreciate it

Surprisingly I have many old hard drives that I have been using as a backup... The Hitchi is my cold storage of 4 TB Life will get easier now

I have decided that I will go with the WD red Lmk if you think its a good choice Thanks for all your help

How much does HDD Cache count? 256 is less than 512MB but how much does that really matter in the real world use?

https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd6002fryz-6tb/p/1Z4-0002-00DU6 Why is this so cheep? Also Is this a good buy? https://www.newegg.com/wd-ultrastar-dc-hc530-0f31284-14tb/p/N82E16822234360?Description=WD ultraStar&cm_re=WD_ultraStar-_-22-234-360-_-Product

I was able to find this https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-sata-3-5-hdd?cjevent=5ada60a06ad111ed812e04150a82b82c&utm_medium=afl1&utm_source=cj&utm_content=Shop+Western+Digital+US&cp1=8933687&utm_campaign=USwdchomepage&utm_term=10-28-2021&cp2=Slickdeals+LLC#WD80EFBX and I can get the gold for 173 what do you think is the better move here?

"WD Blue or Seagate Barracuda," ^ I have also found that and I was confused I have been using a 6 TB WD blue drive for 5 years now .. https://prnt.sc/WIIWKR1hYYOO ^ its a bit slow but it gets the job done.. Blue drives dont support RAID do they ? I was told that they dont but idk if thats true

Thank you for the link. Honestly I think will have it connected to my pc most of the time. I was thinking about using the built in windows backup tool. I was also looking at https://www.newegg.com/blue-wd80eazz-8tb/p/N82E16822234496?Description=wd blue&cm_re=wd_blue-_-22-234-496-_-Product but I was told that its not a good drive for storage. but again I have very little knowledge, thats why I am here

Hello all Im looking for some advice I am trying to buy a good hdd to back up my important files but I know almost nothing about hdd's. Is this a good hard drive or is it over kill? https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd8004fryz-8tb/p/1Z4-0002-013V6 Im not sure what I should be looking for. Thanks

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Hello all I have been wanting to do this for very long time, and have found people that told showed the power of VM machines as well as told me about the flexibility of having one. So I would like to create / set up a virtual machine where I can run my programs. So my vm would be my work station and my installation of windows would be my personal machine where I can game and brows the net.. You're probably asking why not just install it on the man machine? I have ran in to problems with that... One of them, sometimes when you uninstall a Adobe program and want to install it again it let you but the program wont open or it wont let you install it again.... YaY cant wait to reformat my drive and start all over ... Anyway... Can someone help me or guide me in the right path to create a virtual machine that can do that? I am using VMware and I noticed that I am limited and I know there's a way to let the VM use your GPU and memory but I have no idea how to go about it yet.. Yes I am trying to run Windows vm inside of windows and yes I know could do that in linux but I think that thats another level of know how .. I have 2 graphics cards so perhaps I can use 1 for my VM? Can anyone help? Thanks

Thanks guys thats really helpful How do you guys feel about those drives? https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd8004fryz-8tb/p/1Z4-0002-013V6 https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd8003fryz-8tb/p/N82E16822232558?Description=WD Gold.&cm_re=WD_Gold.-_-22-232-558-_-Product

can I back up the entire windows C installation? That would be helpful

Have you ever used Google phones? yea but someone said that the support for long run can be spotty. Even linus said that in one of his videos What do you think?

tell me more tell me how Teach me master!!

so how about those drives? https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd8004fryz-8tb/p/1Z4-0002-013V6 https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd8003fryz-8tb/p/N82E16822232558?Description=WD Gold.&cm_re=WD_Gold.-_-22-232-558-_-Product I will probably wait till black Friday ...

Please do!!

but you have a server, correct? thats how you schedule your backup correct? ( I honestly dont know how thats done ) I dont have a server, NAZ or what ever I do it all manually lol Id love to know how not to do it manually but i dont have that kind of knowledge at the moment. In the near future I would like to build a NAZ At the moment I need to manually sort through all my files and organize them properly. Problem is that i have 6 tb of data and no hard drive I can dump it on to start my organization process. So step 1 organize Step 2 copy / backup

so I dont have to wait 3 months for all my files to transfer. if its inside my machine its not a backup? wait what?

cash speed? RPM? Why would you recommend against the Barracuda Pro. ?

Hi all I am in need of a 6 - 8TB hard drive because I need to back data. I tried buying one but just happens that the one bought is slow. https://www.newegg.com/blue-wd60ezrz-6tb/p/N82E16822235009?Item=N82E16822235009 I know absolutely nothing about hard drives. But I do know how to plug them in So I was wondering if you guys could recommend me a good reliable product. I will try to give some details on how the HD will be used: The hard drive will be placed in my computer that is usually turned on 24/7 as i use my So yes the HD will be plunged in to a machine that is on at least 1 week without being restarted I am a designer so I store Video and photoshop files Would love a NAZ but $$$$ and thats a topic for another day O and my budget? Within 200 dollars but lower than 200 unless its supper cool and a must have we can rethink the price limit I found those bu again "I know absolutely nothing about hard drives." https://www.newegg.com/seagate-ironwolf-st8000vn004-8tb/p/N82E16822184796 https://www.newegg.com/seagate-barracuda-pro-st8000dm0004-8tb/p/2ZN-00J2-000W8?Item=9SIA4MRJP60949 https://www.newegg.com/seagate-ironwolf-st8000vn0022-8tb/p/N82E16822179003?Item=9SIAKEYJA29016 Does the color of the HD matter? Please and thank you for your help

I agree.. i want what I want and I want it ... Fuck dongles I want to plug in my headphones the old way...... also have you ever left your house and WOOPS I forgot my Dongle Id hate to be that person .. thats annoying Yea in that case why dont they include some usb C headphones in the fucking package with the fucking phone...???? Shit you cant even get a fucking charger with a phone now a days. Yes most might already have one but what if they dont? " this isn't an iPod, they aren't marketed as exclusively music playing devices, this isn't a "core feature" Heres a fun one its not really marketed as a phone ether but rather a do it all device