Interal HDD

[LarryMason1337]

Okay, so this is probably a dumb question, but what do I do for HDD storage? There are like dozens of options that all have the same or similar stats (7200 rpm, 6gbs, 65mb cache); but wildly different pricing? Like all these colors from Western Digital; Animals from Seagate. It is almost too much to figure out...

I want to have a good 3-4 TB of storage for saving video files I record. What is the most cost effective way to do this? Should I just ignore HDD and go straight SSD? I'm a bit lost.

 

Thank you.

[Slottr]

They're for different use cases, whether they're constantly spinning in close quarters inside a nas (reds) or your average consumer hard drive (blues) (obviously there's more but those are two common ones)

 

Honestly if you can afford all SSD, go for it

[LarryMason1337]

Just now, Slottr said:

They're for different use cases, whether they're constantly spinning in close quarters inside a nas (reds) or your average consumer hard drive (blues)

 

Honestly if you can afford all SSD, go for it

So are blues what I want for typical Internal use?

[Slottr]

1 minute ago, LarryMason1337 said:

So are blues what I want for typical Internal use?

Yeah

[LogicWeasel]

40 minutes ago, LarryMason1337 said:

I want to have a good 3-4 TB of storage for saving video files I record. What is the most cost effective way to do this?

A 3TB 7200 rpm drive would do the trick for around $80.  Like this one:  https://pcpartpicker.com/product/j28H99/seagate-barracuda-3tb-35-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive-st3000dm008

 

Or get 5TB of good storage for about $115 with this Toshiba X300:  https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kJfmP6/toshiba-internal-hard-drive-hdwe150xzsta

What Slottr didn't mention is that it's not just double the cost to go SSD vs HDD, it's around 5 to 8 times more expensive to get 4TB of SSD ($643 on Amazon): https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Pqm323/samsung-860-evo-4tb-25-solid-state-drive-mz-76e4t0bam