Help to choose reliable and fast HDD from this 3 variants for media files

[LightParticle]

I'm looking for reliable and fairly fast HDD for playing and storing media files and other stuff (like movies bdrip 1080p quality and other). 

 

For my budget I want to get 4 TB hdd. In my local stores are this 3 HDD to choose:

 

1. 4 TB WD Blue [WD40EZRZ]  [SATA III, 6 GB/s, 5400 rpm, cache mem - 64 Mb]
2. 4 TB Seagate BarraCuda [ST4000DM004] [SATA III, 6 GB/s, 5400 rpm, cache mem - 256 Mb] 
3. 4 TB Toshiba P300 [HDWD240UZSVA]  [SATA III, 6 GB/s, 5400 rpm,  cache mem - 128 Mb]

 

What would you recommend to buy?

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, LightParticle said:

I'm looking for reliable and fairly fast HDD for playing and storing media files and other stuff (like movies bdrip 1080p quality and other). 

 

For my budget I want to get 4 TB hdd. In my local stores are this 3 HDD to choose:

 

1. 4 TB WD Blue [WD40EZRZ]  [SATA III, 6 GB/s, 5400 rpm, cache mem - 64 Mb]
2. 4 TB Seagate BarraCuda [ST4000DM004] [SATA III, 6 GB/s, 5400 rpm, cache mem - 256 Mb] 
3. 4 TB Toshiba P300 [HDWD240UZSVA]  [SATA III, 6 GB/s, 5400 rpm,  cache mem - 128 Mb]

 

What would you recommend to buy?

Honestly, what ever is cheapest. Performance will be a non issue, any drive is many orders of magnitude faster then needed to play media content, and which drive is reliable is just the luck of the draw. 

[mariushm]

I'd probably get the WD40EZRZ drive.

 

The big cache is often an indicator of SMR usage, which makes writing stuff to hard drives slower. Most cheap drives are SMR drives these days, PMR drives are better though.

I'm a bit biased, had Seagate drives fail on me, so if I have to choose between those 3 options, my 2nd would be the Samsung drive.

 

I think they all have the same warranty period, if one has longer warranty go with that one.

[Ripred]

I've had the same WD blue drive for almost ten years now,four systems later still a champ