Which one to pick out of these 2?

[nox_]

Hi all, just looking for some opinions, if my use case is mass storage, mostly work related, and some movies, bit of gaming, and it will be turned on 24/7 and will be used very heavily, which HDD I go for?https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822179014 or this one : https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822149627 also, I don't want a "slow drive", and the 5900RPM +  64MB kinda confuses me, but I don't think that it will be that much slower compared to Toshiba? I would be happier with quieter drive just to add. Is my thinking that I should go with SkyHawk is right, or not?

[Turtle Rig]

1 minute ago, noxdeouroboros said:

Hi all, just looking for some opinions, if my use case is mass storage, mostly work related, and some movies, bit of gaming, and it will be turned on 24/7 and will be used very heavily, which HDD I go for?https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822179014 or this one : https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822149627 also, I don't want a "slow drive", and the 5900RPM +  64MB kinda confuses me, but I don't think that it will be that much slower compared to Toshiba? I would be happier with quieter drive just to add. Is my thinking that I should go with SkyHawk is right, or not?

So wait your OS will be on a hard drive ?  

[nox_]

Just now, Turtle Rig said:

So wait your OS will be on a hard drive ?  

No, SSD, HDD is for mass storage as I said.

[Jurrunio]

For HDD performance, just check the RPM. the 64MB for example is the cache which you can pretty much forget, it doesnt help much.

[nox_]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

For HDD performance, just check the RPM. the 64MB for example is the cache which you can pretty much forget, it doesnt help much.

I figured that as much, which one would you choose for my use case?Or would get something else?

[Turtle Rig]

3 minutes ago, noxdeouroboros said:

No, SSD, HDD is for mass storage as I said.

Oh sighs!!! thank goodness.  

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, noxdeouroboros said:

I figured that as much, which one would you choose for my use case?Or would get something else?

Only drawback with Seagate is that data recovery is pretty much only done by Seagate themselves, it's hard for 3rd parties to fix their stuff. On paper tho the Skyhawk should be more durable, since it's meant for surveillance use and not like the X300, standard household use. I think Seagate is the better one out of the two.

[nox_]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Only drawback with Seagate is that data recovery is pretty much only done by Seagate themselves, it's hard for 3rd parties to fix their stuff. On paper tho the Skyhawk should be more durable, since it's meant for surveillance use and not like the X300, standard household use. I think Seagate is the better one out of the two.

I'm very good with regular backups, so that's not a big issue, and that RPM difference won't be too big of an issue don't you think? It's my first non 7200 rpm drive, how much of a speed (it's a HDD, so there's not that much of high speed anyways) decrease I'm looking at?

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, noxdeouroboros said:

I'm very good with regular backups, so that's not a big issue, and that RPM difference won't be too big of an issue don't you think? It's my first non 7200 rpm drive, how much of a speed (it's a HDD, so there's not that much of high speed anyways) decrease I'm looking at?

Not sure how much slower it will be, but I never really care about speed of my bulk storage. If I want speed I would keep them on my SSDs

[shaz2sxy]

I would go with the X300 as its 7200rpm

[nox_]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Not sure how much slower it will be, but I never really care about speed of my bulk storage. If I want speed I would keep them on my SSDs

Gonna look for some reviews, and not gonna mark as solved, maybe some more people will chime in, but I think I will order SkyHawk tomorrow Thanks for your input, appreciate it.

[seagate_surfer]

2 hours ago, noxdeouroboros said:

Gonna look for some reviews, and not gonna mark as solved, maybe some more people will chime in, but I think I will order SkyHawk tomorrow Thanks for your input, appreciate it.

You are probably getting it due to its endurance and you can't go wrong with it, as it was manufactured for surveillance it is made for daily recordings 24 hours a day, so it supports many writings!