WD Red 4TB GIVEAWAY!

[LessThanSatisfactory]

I have a 500gb boot SSD because I need it for reliable booting and caching, I have two Seagate 2tb barracudas in raid 1, for archiving things in compressed form (so I don't need a huge drive) , I have a wd black 2tb for my applications, and finally, I have a couple of old 200gb wd blues in RAID 0, for processing and storing movies, and raw video. I need a better storage solution, including another ssd (could you tell i love redundancy?) but i dont have the budget for it now. 

[Logan D.]

Right now I have a 1 TB Hard-drive. I first got it because I really needed an upgrade from my old lousy 250 GB hard-drive. The reason I chose the one I did is because I saw a couple reviews on it on YouTube and they looked pretty good! I have had the same one ever since and am looking to upgrade very soon. I will hopefully be getting a 120GB SSD very soon. So my storage isn't exactly up to par right now, but hopefully it will be soon! Thanks and continue with the awesome videos man!

 

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/logan.demars.3    

Twitter- https://twitter.com/ChubbyNative

[zedd00]

I run a 120gb Hitachi 2.5" drive I took out of an old Acer laptop for my OS and an 80gb Toshiba one routed to my "Downloads" Windows library, also from an old laptop. I didn't invest in storage when I built my pc a year ago coz I had a 1TB WD external. Since then I was thinking of getting a Samsung 840 and a WD 1TB Caviar Black. Eventually a friend of mine needed money and sold me a 1.5TB Caviar green and my father gave me a 1TB USB 3.0 Toshiba external.

 

That gives me 2 TB of external storage across two drives and nearly 2 TB of internal across three drives. That probably makes me not very worthy of the giveaway prize as opposed to people who need em more, but here's to trying.

 

And twitter: https://twitter.com/ZeddArckham/status/377946200265084928

[artashes]

120gig for OS and apps because of speed.

1TB WB black for storaging the gigantic steam lib and other stuff because it was what I had with my last pc.

[LucasPlayer]

I use one 1000Gb/1Tb Hard Drive, for all my games on Steam (around 20, and I will get more) Origin(Dead Space 3, The Sims 3 and Battlefield 3), and Uplay (Splinter Cell Blacklist) and all my files like music, photos and very few videos. I also have a 250Gb SSD for boot(Windows) and my apps/programs that I'd like to run faster (Ex: Internet Browsers, Microsoft programs, and other stuff. Since I'm planning on getting a BUNCH of games on Steam's winter sales, It would be great to transfer my stuff (not games) to the WD Red 4Tb and have 1 Tb for games, or the opposite, having games on the 4Tb and pther miscellaneous files on the Hard Drive. 

Link to Post on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasAndradeOli (@LucasAndradeOli)

[Firingpower]

1tb wd blue, it was cheap at the time and i needed the storage

[Commonmind]

1. I have an iMac equipped with a 1TB Fusion drive, with the intention of keeping boot times snappy as I'm usually back and forth between OS X and a Bootcamp of Windows 8. Connected to that are 2 3TB LaCie Thunderbolt Drives; one of these is used for storing media files, project files and my iTunes library, the other is a Time Machine backup drive with a 1TB partition that contains client/project files which are sync'd with a Cubby account. My secondary machine is a gaming PC, which uses a 240gb Corsair NeutronGTX for the OS install and games which are played often; there is also a 1TB WD Black drive available for a second Steam Library and some media. 

[Ian_Wright]

I have only one drive, and it is a 750 GB seagate barracuda drive. i have it because it was affordable, i knew i would not fill it anytime soon, and my friends told me it was reliable. in 4 years it have lived up to my expectations.

[Ryseagain]

two 1Tb Seagate HDD in raid1 in NAS. My friend recommended it!

 

Twitter https://twitter.com/dtbryseagain/status/377947937902305281

 

 

 

[KONA]

I currently have Corsair Neutron Series GTX 240GB SSD as a boot drive that also has my programs on it then for storage i have a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB for games and music then i have a Seagate Barracuda 4TB for Movies and Recorded game clips and then i have a Seagate Barracuda 4TB that i use for backing up all my stuff. The reason i have it setup like this is the SSD is fast so faster load times on boot and in programs the Caviar black drive was in my old system so i transfered it to my new one and the 2 seagate drive were on sale for a really good price so i couldnt resist(i wish they were WD RED 4TB drive but what can you do.  If i won this i would use the drives to build a Nas with these WD drives and change that to my back up storge for my house hold (My PC,Brothers laptop and my dads PC) 

[GreenGlow]

1. I'm running RAID0  2x OCZ Agility 3, but one of my SSDs is starting to give me errors, so i guess i will have to go with just one SSD soon.
 

2. Facebook share from (Wiktor Grześkowiak): https://www.facebook.com/wiktor.grzeskowiak/posts/667046886640195
 

3. Twitter share with Twitter handle @kamikadzew: https://twitter.com/kamikadzew/statuses/377949680920842240

 

 

 

 

 

[ajoy39]

I have a 64GB SSD, 2 1 TBs and a 500 GB drive in my PC and a 1TB attached to my router. 

 

The PC storage configuration is patchwork. The SSD was the best I could afford at the time, back when it took $100 to get a 64GB SSD. The rest of the drives are all ones I've collected over the years, the 500 is from my old PC, one of the 1 TBs is pulled out of a Seagate External drive that the USB dock broke on, and the other 1 TB my mom brought home from work when it was pulled out of a dead PC. 

 

The 1 TB external was a requirement for a photography class that I've repurposed a NAS type config by hooking it up to my Asus router. 

 

What would I do with one of these drives? Friends and I are starting a gaming oriented web site right now and our server is currently running on a 20GB drive. We're already running out of space and we aren't even done with out application, none the less having people sign up and starting to upload and post. So we could really use some more storage. Especially redundant store. This is hopefully going to be our livelihood, it would be a tradegy if we lost the app because of hardware failure. 

[Nabstylez]

I'm using 2x 128GB SSDs in RAID 0, nothing else. My mechanical drive failed on me, so now I have nothing to secure my sourcefiles and other data. Reason why I don't get storage even if it's critical, I haven't found a drive worthy enough (that I know of) to fit in my quiet system yet.

[NatoR]

My Storage Configuration:

 

1.- Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB SATA III :  Boot Drive Windows 8 Pro (MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc.)

2.- OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 Series : Storage for Origin Games (Battlefield 3, MoH: Warfighter, Dead Space 3)

3.- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s : Storage for Steam Games (119 games)

4.- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s : Storage for Programs and Data, and My Other Very Important Data (cough *porn*)

 

As you can see, My configuration basically is for fast gaming load, BF 3,Warfigther and Dead Space 3 they run very fast with the SSD as same the OS. 

 

Facebook  (Juan Carlos Valdivia) : https://www.facebook.com/juan.c.valdivia.9/posts/683812134980793

 

Twitter  (@JuanCarlos_812) : https://twitter.com/JuanCarlos_812/status/377948172338733056

 

Google+  (Juan Valdivia) : https://plus.google.com/102116848874939381674/posts/WSVoLy4QFNj

 

[paulsterio]

I run a storage server for myself. 

 

- ASRock B75M-R2.0 Motherboard

- Intel Core i5 2310 CPU

- 8GB RAM

- 120GB Samsung 840 Series Boot Drive

- 3 x 2TB WD Green in RAID 5 for Storage

- 2TB Samsunt Spinpoint Temp Drive for Torrents and Non-Important Stuff

- 1TB Seagate Barracuda Scratch Disk for Video Editing

 

I like having a storage server because of flexibility and upgradability. I currently have 5 HDDs in my storage server, however I can install up to 11 (after converting 5.25" bays...etc.), so that's something I like. It's also good that it can run Windows and can sometimes be used for other tasks as well. E.g. If I need to quickly check something up on the internet in the morning, instead of turning on my main PC, I can just do it on the server because it's always on. I like having a dedicated disk for torrents because it's always active (i.e. I'm actually always torrenting, whether it's downloading or seeding) so I guess that wears out the HDD a lot, plus, most of the stuff are just movies...etc. which I don't mind losing, but I do move the stuff I want to keep to my RAID 5 array. The scratch disk is mainly for speed as the RAID 5 array is quite slow to write to, so video editing will be a bit slow. 

 

My next step is to move to a dedicated RAID controller, but I don't feel any strong need to splash out on that now, I'm happy with the performance I'm getting with software RAID. 

[deBoru]

500GB Seagate Barracuda... because money.

[Kreator]

Right now I have two Samsung 256gb 840 pros which I run in raid 0 and use as my boot drive. I also use the ssds for my games although I back everything up once every day or two to a Western digital 2tb black edition. I also use the hdd for storage of movies, music ect. 

 

Thanks for the give away Linus and Slick, you guys are awesome!

[Detected Error]

I've got an OZC Agility 3 SSD 120Gb for booting (got it fairly cheap), old 200Gb Seagate laptop HDD 5000RPM because I already had it from like 8 years ago for my important storage, and an external 500Gb passport for large programs/saves/games/music, pretty much everything goes on the external.

I spent all my money on my system and totally forgot about storage and only had an SSD on my mind when planning the build, and been parting out my old laptop's for usable HDD's , the external was a birthday present. 

So all in all, the reason I have this configuration is because of money shortage, and I didn't think to plan it into my budget.

[MotionlessCicero]

Honestly, I have a 400GB Seagate Sata II because I can't afford the 2 TB drive i'm looking at. It came with my cheap prebuilt computer I got for Christmas a couple years ago.  Hopefully soon i'll get a new one since i'm getting around 30GB free space due to games and media.  I'm freaking drooling over SSDs too, they look so nice and fast just ugh ;-;

Anyways thanks to WD and Linustech for doing this. <3

[M4Kval]

I do not have a desktop at the moment so I am solely running of an Acer laptop with a Hitachi 500GB, and I have this because it was what came with the laptop and I haven't bothered changing it up. I also have an external Verbatim 1TB hard drive which I am using for stoarage of movies and music mainly.

 

But I am going to build a desktop in the near future. I am going to get a 250GB Samsung EVO, because of your review of it and its good GB/$ ratio. I am also going to install a WD Green Caviar 1TB because it comes from an old computer I got from the father of a friend of mine and I cannot afford anything more at this point.

 

Martin Kvalvåg: https://www.facebook.com/MaKval/posts/10151648144561194

 

M4Kval: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45512984#post45512984

[Patrick3D]

1.) My home server consists of:

• Raidmax Seiran ATX case
• Silverstone Strider 550W modular PSU (and the short cable kit)
• MSI A85XA-G65 motherboard
• AMD A4-5300 APU
• 8GB GSkill memory
• 60GB Kingston V300 SSD
• 2x iStarUSA 4x3 SATA hot swap bays (8 HDD bays fit into 6x 5.25" drive bays)
• 1x iStarUSA single SATA hot swap bay (for the SSD, using a Silverstone adapter)
• Rosewill RC-211 PCIe SATA card (2-port, I actually need to replace this with a 3-port)

 

I build all my own systems, for this server i'm running Ubuntu 13.04. Using LVM to manage the storage space, currently with 2 LVM volumes, one for the primary storage and one as a backup to that. I then do a 2nd backup to external drives. So far i've just been using every old drive I could find lying around (7 currently), going back to as small as a 40GB IBM drive (one of the notoriously bad ones). The primary volume is currently 6.5TB and the backup volume is 4TB. Total data being stored is around 3.6TB so I need to add more storage to the backup volume soon and would like to swap out the older drives with new ones.

 

Reason: I was running 2x 2TB hard drives in my HTPC (one as primary storage, the other as backup) and was down to less than 100GB free space. Ultimately, I wanted to downsize the HTPC from mATX to mini-ITX and put all my data on a single storage location where it could more easily be managed and made accessible to my other devices and over the Internet. I figured having 8 hard drive bays would "future proof" my storage needs for the next 5-10 years.

 

[sharad]

I'm currently using a 120GB Kingston V300 for my Windows installation with a 1TB WD Blue for my games, videos, and other large files. I like this set up because it offers both speed and large capacity. But it also creates a problem for my backup solution. I kind of want a full image of both for backup but I can't really afford a 1.5TB drive. A NAS would be nice but I can't afford that either. Right now I have a 256GB external for image backup of my SSD along with a small selection of data from the 1TB HDD. Not ideal!

[azdaspaz]

Okay so, 

I have a 120GB Patriot Wildfire SSD for my boot, as it was one of the cheaper drives available when i was building my system last year, i also have a 3TB Seagate Barracuda for storage because a few of the people I went to school with had them so I thought I'd go with a Seagate one. 
I also have a FreeNAS box I setup with a usb drive as boot and 3 2TB Seagate Barracuda drives I found heap somewhere (not even sure how old they are), I have these drives in the NAS as I was doing the NAS on the cheap and they were the cheapest. 

[HAOOPlayTime]

I run a 250gb hard drive on my laptop along with a 120 gb ssd have not raded them so I can tell the difference between my recordng drive and my games drive.

[Tibbytob]

I just have a 1tb seagate that came with my previous computer that i used in my new build to save money. I just use 1 hard drive, no SSD because i feel that the extra 15 seconds to boot isn't necessary and that i can wait for my computer to turn on in the 30 seconds it does. the only problem is, is that it is 5 years old and has lots built up in it. I would LOVE to have a new hard drive because my current one cuts my fps by 80% when recording and ive always wanted to live stream or upload to youtube!