What’s the best reliable 7200RPM 6TB HDD?

[Advanced_Gaming]

Budget (including currency): around $150 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Storing/editing YT videos.

Other details: I make YouTube videos, but my old hand-me-down 5400 2.5” HDD is anything but fast (120MB/s Seq. Read, 90MB/s Seq. Write, 2-4MB/s Random Read, 1-3MB/s Random Write), not to mention only 1TB, which won’t last forever. I plan to eventually upgrade, and I want to get something that I’ll keep for a long time. Thanks!

PC Specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 “5625G” 6 core, 12 thread, 4.7GHz all-core. (OC)

MSI Gaming X Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6G @2175GHz (OC)

16GB DDR4-3200 CL16 T-Force Vulcan Z RAM

500GB WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD

500GB WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD

ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS Gaming Motherboard

1TB WD Blue HDD (old)

250GB Hatachi DeskStar HDD (old)

Aresgame AGV750 750w Semi-Modular PSU

DeepCool Matrexx 50 Add-RGB 4F ATX computer case

Cooler Master ML280 Mirror 280mm ARGB Liquid Cooler 

Peripherals:

ASUS VP249QGR 144Hz 1080p Display 

Acer H243H 60Hz 1080p Display

Redragon K556 Devarajas Mechanical Gaming Keyboard 

Logitech G502 Hero Gaming Mouse

Blue Snowball ICE Microphone 

Creative Pebble Desktop Speakers

 

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by Advanced_Gaming_YT
Forgot to add PC specs

[Bob__]

3 minutes ago, Advanced_Gaming_YT said:

Budget (including currency): around $150 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Storing/editing YT videos.

Other details: I make YouTube videos, but my old hand-me-down 5400 2.5” HDD is anything but fast (120MB/s Seq. Read, 90MB/s Seq. Write, 2-4MB/s Random Read, 1-3MB/s Random Write), not to mention only 1TB, which won’t last forever. I plan to eventually upgrade, and I want to get something that I’ll keep for a long time. Thanks!

 

get a couple of 2tb NV2's less storage but way faster

[Advanced_Gaming]

8 minutes ago, Bob__ said:

get a couple of 2tb NV2's less storage but way faster

Slight issue there… my mono only supports 2 SSDs. I can’t add anymore, and will use the NVMe’s I have for game storage.

[flibberdipper]

They may not be 7200RPM, but I've been more than happy with my 6TB WD Red Plus drives. They're in a parity storage space which is anything but speed oriented, and they'll still happily crank out 200MB/s sequentals IIRC which is plenty enough. One of the highlights for them IMO is the fact that they're CMR and not SMR so you don't have to worry about the speeds eventually shitting themselves and the drives becoming borderline unusable.

[Bob__]

1 minute ago, Advanced_Gaming_YT said:

Slight issue there… my mono only supports 2 SSDs. I can’t add anymore, and will use the NVMe’s I have for game storage.

ok well than https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=7200&A=6000000000000,22000000000000&X=0,15574&sort=-a_capacity&page=1 

 

i would recommend https://pcpartpicker.com/product/PfcG3C/seagate-firecuda-8-tb-35-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive-st8000dx001 

[brob]

1 hour ago, Advanced_Gaming_YT said:

Slight issue there… my mono only supports 2 SSDs. I can’t add anymore, and will use the NVMe’s I have for game storage.

 

You could use SATA 2.5" SSD. Two 2TB can be had under budget. A 4TB drive would be a bit over budget at the moment. Consider getting a 2TB drive to start. Prices will likely come down on higher capacity models.

[Advanced_Gaming]

Thank you all for you help

[Bob__]

48 minutes ago, Advanced_Gaming_YT said:

Thank you all for you help

NP if you need any other help feel free to come to the forums again