Is this a good hdd for gaming?

[deathfrankcore]

This Amazon deal is really good. This hdd has 2TB of space and goes at 7200 rpm (Amazon us). BTW if I buy a new ssd, and I buy this hdd to add more space, to put the OS on the ssd do I have to reinstall it on the ssd? 

Edit: I missed a letter at the end of the US Amazon link

[Spaceman_Wil]

Spec wise should be fine. Never had any issue with my Hitachi brand stuff so it looks to be a good buy.

[deathfrankcore]

I forgot to say that it's refurbished 

 

[boggy77]

4 minutes ago, deathfrankcore said:

This Amazon deal is really good. This hdd has 2TB of space and goes at 7200 rpm (Amazon us). BTW if I buy a new ssd, and I buy this hdd to add more space, to put the OS on the ssd do I have to reinstall it on the ssd? 

(Ricondizionato)

yeah i would never get a refurbished drive

[GeoHandle]

im British so I don't know how good/bad that deal is, but moving the OS from an old drive to the new SSD is actually pretty simple, I just did it myself yesterday. You clone the old drive to the SSD, I used this site to help me: https://www.howtogeek.com/97242/how-to-migrate-windows-7-to-a-solid-state-drive/ 

[deathfrankcore]

1 minute ago, Spaceman_Wil said:

Spec wise should be fine. Never had any issue with my Hitachi brand stuff so it looks to be a good buy.

Thank you 

[Mira Yurizaki]

HDDs are fine for gaming as long as the game isn't constantly streaming data. The only thing that you'd have to suffer with is longer load times.

 

5 minutes ago, deathfrankcore said:

This Amazon deal is really good. This hdd has 2TB of space and goes at 7200 rpm (Amazon us). BTW if I buy a new ssd, and I buy this hdd to add more space, to put the OS on the ssd do I have to reinstall it on the ssd? 

No, you can add however many drives you want.

1 minute ago, deathfrankcore said:

I forgot to say that it's refurbished

That's usually not a problem. At the very least it should mean the manufacturer looked at it and signed off on it as being basically good as new.

[deathfrankcore]

4 minutes ago, GeoHandle said:

im British so I don't know how good/bad that deal is, but moving the OS from an old drive to the new SSD is actually pretty simple, I just did it myself yesterday. You clone the old drive to the SSD, I used this site to help me: https://www.howtogeek.com/97242/how-to-migrate-windows-7-to-a-solid-state-drive/ 

I read it and my hdd is 1TB and is full of games and apps so I can just wipe everything and start a new windows on the ssd and re download the app to the  hdd