What drives do you use?

[Vishera]

I wonder what drives and configurations people in the community use .

 

I have 6TB of storage in total (for my main rig )

I exclusively use hard drives because i do a lot of heavy writes,a SSD just wouldn't survive long in those workloads.

 

1TB WD10EZEX 7200RPM OS drive,but full of stuff  

3TB Toshiba P300 7200RPM - Only 400GB of avaliable space left after a mass deletion operation.

2TB Toshiba external drive for backup - I backup the OS drive in full,and backup the most important data from the other drive.

 

I am a hoarder when it comes to the digital world:

1.I like to store all of my games physically on my drives

2.I like to mod games,i tend to make full copies of the game so i end up with a modded version alongside the original.

3.I have huge projects of a game development hobby that i like to work on alone (Well,I program,make textures,optimize the game,out source 3d models and animations from 3rd party so with all of that the size balloons)

4.I like to make screen-shots and keep them,for me it's memories and cool photos

 

[kelvinhall05]

128GB boot drive and 1TB hard drive. More than enough storage for everything I do.

[svmlegacy]

Main:

1. (Boot) Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB
2. (Scratch) ADATA SP900 128 GB
3. (Scratch) PNY XLR8 120 GB
4. (Bulk Storage) HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 3 TB

Laptop:

• Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB

Server (RAID 1+0):

1. Western Digital WD10SPZX 1 TB
2. Western Digital WD10SPZX 1 TB
3. Western Digital WD7500BPVT 750 GB
4. Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750 GB

• Note: #3 & #4 are salvaged drives. I've been slowly replacing them with the WD10SPZX as they fail.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Main PC (1.75TB)

3x 250GB Samsung 840 EVO

1TB Sabrent Rocket Q

 

Secondary PC (250GB)

250GB Crucial MX500

 

Server (26.75TB)

1TB Adata SX8200 Pro

2x 250GB Crucial MX500 

1TB Samsung 860 QVO

240GB PNY CS900

24TB HDD storage, mostly WD Reds.

[PlayStation 2]

Uh...

My desktop has a 256GB Inland Professional NVMe SSD and a 2TB Western Digital Blue 5400rpm hard drive. I'm looking to upgrade that to a 1TB NVMe SSD of some sort and a 4TB hard drive soon. 

My laptop has a super cheap 240GB SATA SSD, I think it's an ADATA SU635 one. Was like $25 when I bought it.

[Vishera]

32 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

3x 250GB Samsung 840 EVO

1TB Sabrent Rocket Q

It would make more sense to buy a big 2TB drive instead,also higher capacity SSDs have higher life expectancy.

[Vishera]

21 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

My laptop has a super cheap 240GB SATA SSD, I think it's an ADATA SU635 one. Was like $25 when I bought it.

Poor laptop,these damn cheap SSDs :D

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, Vishera said:

Poor laptop,these damn cheap SSDs

I was curious as to if it was any good about a year ago. I had $25 to spare and I was needing to get a couple of new drives for various purposes, so I threw it in my laptop.

[Oshino Shinobu]

5 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It would make more sense to buy a big 2TB drive instead,also higher capacity SSDs have higher life expectancy.

I've had the 840 EVOs for years, they were carried over from an old build. Most of my storage is on the server anyway so very little gets stored locally on the drives. 

[Vishera]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

I've had the 840 EVOs for years, they were carried over from an old build. Most of my storage is on the server anyway so very little gets stored locally on the drives. 

Also since those 840 EVOs are probably MLC drives - I guess that they still have a lot of time left until they die.

[Chionele]

Main rig:

512 GB NVMe SSD

4 TB WD Blue

 

Laptop:

275 GB Crucial SATA SSD

1 TB some random HDD that came with it

 

NAS:

Currently just one 1 TB drive that I had laying around, but should be getting two 4 TB WD Red's tomorrow.

 

Also had one 3 TB external drive but that just died very recently. Should look into getting that replaced.

[ArduinoBen]

Main Laptop:

Stock 256GB NVME SSD

512GB 960 EVO

 

Surface Pro 4:

512GB NVME SSD

 

New NAS:

4x8TB in RAID 5 for 21TB usable

 

Have two old NASs for 6TB in total, getting rid of those soon.

 

Then I also have a few more external drives, maybe ~20TB in total.

[Vishera]

1 hour ago, Chionele said:

4 TB WD Blue

I don't like those since many if not all high capacity drives from Western Digital are delivered with slower 5400 RPM speed.

1 hour ago, Chionele said:

Currently just one 1 TB drive that I had laying around, but should be getting two 4 TB WD Red's tomorrow.

After the scandal that happened with those,I would recommend to buy from a different manufacturer.

I really like Toshiba's drives so you may consider getting a N300,the NAS drives of SEAGATE should be fine even though most of their consumer stuff are crap quality.

[DoctorNick]

1TB Corsair MP510 + 500GB Samsung Evo 860. No hard drives for me anymore! (ever) 

[Vishera]

Just now, DoctorNick said:

1TB Corsair MP510 + 500GB Samsung Evo 860. No hard drives for me anymore! (ever) 

Considering that each one of my hard drives is faster than the average hard drive,and that i treat them well my system is very snappy.

Yes,it's not the same as a SSD but it's still fine.

Fun fact: If you don't wait for the hard drive to finish it's job it will only make it slower.

Hard drives feel slow when they are at 100% usage,My drives are at 1% usage when idle.

Most of hard drives out there are pegged at 100% usage constantly because of bad user habits.

Anyway SSD users won't have to worry about that.

 

If you know how to treat a hard drive well it will feel snappy.

[DoctorNick]

9 minutes ago, Vishera said:

 

Fun fact: If you don't wait for the hard drive to finish it's job it will only make it slower.

 

I want to know how this works.

[Vishera]

1 minute ago, DoctorNick said:

I want to know how this works.

The more work you will give the hard drive to do the longer it will take for it to finish and the more likely it is to be pegged at 100%,so adding more work makes it slower and may even cause the system to hang.

[DoctorNick]

6 minutes ago, Vishera said:

The more work you will give the hard drive to do the longer it will take for it to finish and the more likely it is to be pegged at 100%,so adding more work makes it slower and may even cause the system to hang.

Yes of course. thought you meant something else. Get SSD cache disk at least

[Vishera]

Just now, DoctorNick said:

Yes of course. thought you meant something else. Get SSD cache disk at least

Good idea

[mariushm]

My regular computer ...

Sandisk 120 GB SATA as boot drive , and a bunch of mechanical drives  HGST 4TB NAS drive, 1 TB WD Black, a Seagate drive and a WD Green. 

 

I use a laptop a lot these days... has a Samsung 250 GB ssd and a 500 GB mechanical drive (hitachi I think)

 

 

[Chionele]

10 hours ago, Vishera said:

I don't like those since many if not all high capacity drives from Western Digital are delivered with slower 5400 RPM speed.

After the scandal that happened with those,I would recommend to buy from a different manufacturer.

I really like Toshiba's drives so you may consider getting a N300,the NAS drives of SEAGATE should be fine even though most of their consumer stuff are crap quality.

I don't really care about the speed because even if I do run some games from the Blue they run well enough, and most of the important stuff is on my NVMe anyways. I'm also not running any sort of mission critical life support system here, so the CMR Red's should do the job just fine. It's already hard enough to find drives, let alone drives that are priced sensibly here that I don't want to go putting around even more filters on my search.

[WhitetailAni]

I have a bunch.

Crucial M4 128GB.

WD something 250GB (partitioned into 200GB for Windows and 30GB for Linux).

WD something 2TB.

WD Caviar Green 3TB (partitioned to 2.5 TB for backups and 500 GB for nostalgia).

16 GB Optane (waiting for better motherboard for StoreMI for 2TB drive)