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Thanks everyone for the support, I guess I'll go for a 2TB green. !

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Hello everyone, I was looking for a quiet HDD and found that the WD reds are one of the quietest HDD out in the market. So my question is: is it possible to use a WD red (I know they are for NAS) in a "gaming pc" as a storage drive?

 

 

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Hello everyone, I was looking for a quiet HDD and found that the WD reds are one of the quietest HDD out in the market. So my question is: is it possible to use a WD red (I know they are for NAS) in a "gaming pc" as a storage drive?

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Hello everyone, I was looking for a quiet HDD and found that the WD reds are one of the quietest HDD out in the market. So my question is: is it possible to use a WD red (I know they are for NAS) in a "gaming pc" as a storage drive?

I guess you could, there is nothing really wrong with doing so. The WD Reds are just optimized for NAS's and what not.

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wait, wait, waaaaaaaaaaait.....

 

You seriously want a quiet hdd? Okay, there are quite freaks but a quiet hdd? Really? ???? Get a Seagate Barracuda, wrap it with foam, add rubber mounts, you're done. This is just as weird as cyber bullying

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Hello everyone, I was looking for a quiet HDD and found that the WD reds are one of the quietest HDD out in the market. So my question is: is it possible to use a WD red (I know they are for NAS) in a "gaming pc" as a storage drive?

Yes, of course you can.

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well, to be honest, there isn't such thing as a quiet HDD, but still as far as i know WD Green are the best "Silent" optimized HDDs, even more that Reds, but at the coast of performance, but still, there isn't much of a difference, a hard is a hard drive, still slow regardless of "Color" :):P, so just get the cheapest 7200RPM WD/Baracuda Drive you can get and just rest your case 

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wait, wait, waaaaaaaaaaait.....

 

You seriously want a quiet hdd? Okay, there are quite freaks but a quiet hdd? Really? ???? Get a Seagate Barracuda, wrap it with foam, add rubber mounts, you're done. This is just as weird as cyber bullying

 

Wrap it in foam? That sounds like a great idea. :S

 

Some hard-drives are excessively noisy, especially older drives. They have gotten a lot better in recent times though.

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Hello everyone, I was looking for a quiet HDD and found that the WD reds are one of the quietest HDD out in the market. So my question is: is it possible to use a WD red (I know they are for NAS) in a "gaming pc" as a storage drive?

 

Reds are fine. However WD does have drives especially made to be cool, quiet and efficient and they're the WD Greens. They spin @5400 RPM which is plenty for storage of big documents, video's, music etc.

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Reds are fine. However WD does have drives especially made to be cool, quiet and efficient and they're the WD Greens. They spin @5400 RPM which is plenty for storage of big documents, video's, music etc.

I store my games on two WD greens in raid 1. They are very quiet and so far I haven't had any problems with speed and what not. Can happily get 130MB/s out of them.

Disclaimer : I might be wrong.

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Hi there @BaconMaster!

 

Yes, you can use them for storage in gaming PC, although they're designed for RAID/NAS environments.

 

Nonetheless, you can take a look at WD Green, which is meant for storage purposes as a stand-alone drive in case you're not going for any RAID setup.

 


 

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Thanks everyone for the support, I guess I'll go for a 2TB green. !

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