BararaCuda Hardrive or Toshiba X300 Hardrive?

[CHEESYnachoMAN4]

I wanted to upgrade my current Hard drive which is a 4TB BarraCuda pro drive to a 8TB drive.

My two choices are a regular BarraCuda drive and a Toshiba X300. Which one is better?

(I use my hard drive to hold games and files and move games to my SSD when I want to play them and move them back to the Hardrive when i'm done playing them)

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, CHEESYnachoMAN4 said:

(I use my hard drive to hold games and files and move games to my SSD when I want to play them and move them back to the Hardrive when i'm done playing them)

I would just keep them on the HDD and install the ones you need to load quickly onto an SSD.

 

That said, I'd choose Seagate over Toshiba.

[SupaKomputa]

13 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

That said, I'd choose Seagate over Toshiba.

Choosing Goliath over david. JK

[CHEESYnachoMAN4]

15 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Choosing Goliath over david. JK

 

29 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I would just keep them on the HDD and install the ones you need to load quickly onto an SSD.

 

That said, I'd choose Seagate over Toshiba.

I like my current seagate drive but never had a Toshiba one. But the Toshiba is 7200rpm while the Seagate is 5200rpm. Is there any other benefits one of them provides over the other? 

[SupaKomputa]

Well in general Toshiba have better quality than Seagate. Depending on the model, Seagate drives are hit and miss.

Get Toshiba or HGST (Hitachi) if you can.

7200 vs 5200 is a huge deal for transfer speed.

5200rpm usually for CCTV / file backup that don't require high speed.

[CHEESYnachoMAN4]

6 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Well in general Toshiba have better quality than Seagate. Depending on the model, Seagate drives are hit and miss.

Get Toshiba or HGST (Hitachi) if you can.

7200 vs 5200 is a huge deal for transfer speed.

5200rpm usually for CCTV / file backup that don't require high speed.

Ill probably be going with the Toshiba then. 

Here are the links for both of them so u can better see what model they are:

Seagate: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H289S7C/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=8tb+hard+drive&qid=1567822840&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Toshiba: https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-HDWR11AXZSTA-Performance-Gaming-Internal/dp/B07CSFGLFZ/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=toshiba+high+performance+hard+drive&qid=1567823101

Thank you

[SupaKomputa]

Yeah the price also speak for itself.

Any particular reason why you need 1 giant drive?

If i were you i would have 2x5 or 3x4 instead of 1x10tb.

Imagine having a failed hdd with 10tb of data in it.

[seagate_surfer]

I posted something similar to this earlier, I gues it can help here too:

17 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

As long as you don't use it for business-level writings, it's fine and as long as you don't leave it on for more than 8 to 10 hours a day, it's also fine, if you're someone who does it and leave the compiler always on then use the Pro version because it was made for that but still a desktop consumer level device.

 

[CHEESYnachoMAN4]

4 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Yeah the price also speak for itself.

Any particular reason why you need 1 giant drive?

If i were you i would have 2x5 or 3x4 instead of 1x10tb.

Imagine having a failed hdd with 10tb of data in it.

If I was to get another 4TB drive I would prefer to put them in raid 0 to make them 1 drive. But my current 4TB drive is a barracuda pro which costs $160 so might as well get 1 8tb regular barracuda for basically the same price.

(at the time I bought the 4tb drive the pro version was only a little more than the regular thats why I got it)

[SupaKomputa]

No one need Raid 0 anymore. Once one of your drive failed you'll loose all the data. Not worth it.

I'm talking about data security, you can't predict when the drive will fail, so instead of putting everything in a huge disk, why don't you just spread it apart.

[CHEESYnachoMAN4]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

No one need Raid 0 anymore. Once one of your drive failed you'll loose all the data. Not worth it.

I'm talking about data security, you can't predict when the drive will fail, so instead of putting everything in a huge disk, why don't you just spread it apart.

I have no important data on my pc really. But im probably going to stick with the 8tb since my friend wants to buy my 4tb hardrive. Thank you for your help

[CHEESYnachoMAN4]

I ended up going for the seagate because the Toshiba one had worse reviews many saying it failed pretty quick. While the seagate drive had more reviews and most were rated good.

[seagate_surfer]

On 9/7/2019 at 10:35 AM, CHEESYnachoMAN4 said:

I ended up going for the seagate because the Toshiba one had worse reviews many saying it failed pretty quick. While the seagate drive had more reviews and most were rated good.

Information founded, this is what allows me to sleep at night! Best regards my friend!