Good 2tb hard drive under $100

[DR2D2]

I want to know if there is a 2tb hard drive that is well priced?  So I can use it for my steam games. Because of that I can use my main hard drive and ssd for normal stuff and game pass pc.

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, DR2D2 said:

I want to know if there is a 2tb hard drive that is well priced?  So I can use it for my steam games. Because of that I can use my main hard drive and ssd for normal stuff and game pass pc.

Pick one, makes no difference. As long as you have a backup scheme in place, they are all identical.

I'm a seagate fan myself. Others will say differently.

 

[Princess Luna]

Pretty much any at this point, WD, Seagate, Toshiba... it's all on pair nowadays, it really doesn't matter just pick whatever 7200rpm one you find for cheap.

[GoldenLag]

Seagate Compute drives are 50$ at 2TB

 

 

Usually one of my go-to in terms of suggestions

[SPARTAN VI]

I'd recommend a Seagate FireCuda drive if you must have a spinner. Granted it needs to be 'trained' a bit for its solid state cache to start paying off and it's still not going to blow anyone away with random read/writes. 

[D.U.F.F.]

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[nox_]

34 minutes ago, SPARTAN VI said:

I'd recommend a Seagate FireCuda drive if you must have a spinner. Granted it needs to be 'trained' a bit for its solid state cache to start paying off and it's still not going to blow anyone away with random read/writes. 

These days it's really not worth it, for mass storage regular old hdd is much better options, cheap also

To second what @GoldenLag said, Seagate Compute drive would be just great for the use case and it's cheap.

[SPARTAN VI]

1 hour ago, noxdeouroboros said:

These days it's really not worth it, for mass storage regular old hdd is much better options, cheap also

To second what @GoldenLag said, Seagate Compute drive would be just great for the use case and it's cheap.

To each their own, but OP is using it specifically for his Steam library, so I'd bank on that 8GB solid state cache.

 

Apparently Amazon had two listings for the same SKU (ST2000LX001), I just updated it the link to the $60 Firecuda. So $10 swing between the 2TB Compute and the 2TB Firecuda, I'd still go with the Firecuda. The Firecuda also has 5-year warranty vs 2-year warranty on the Compute drive. 

[GoldenLag]

36 minutes ago, SPARTAN VI said:

So $10 swing between the 2TB Compute and the 2TB Firecuda, I'd still go with the Firecuda. The Firecuda also has 5-year warranty vs 2-year warranty on the Compute drive. 

At that point you could also just have those extra 10$ and put it towards a 120GB to have your favorite game on.

 

Another 7$ and spend 27$ on a 240GB drive to have 2 favorite games. 

 

Id see that as a much better investment.

[SPARTAN VI]

Agreed, if the OP is allowed and able, I'd rather spend less on a 1-2TB spinner if it meant I could have a 480-512GB SSD for games. Definitely possible within a $100 budget constraint.