HDD recomendations

[Killswitch49]

After i bought the eidos anthology i fully filled up my 1tb wd blue hdd. Now i am looking to get a second drive and i probably know what i want but want a second opinion. I am thinking of getting a 2tb black. DO you guys recommend anything else? Thx

[Prastupok]

Well, keep the 1TB Blue. Adding a 2 or 3 TB black should have you set for a while.

 

Unrelated: I'm unsure of your setup, but getting a boot SSD does wonders for your system.

[Killswitch49]

Well, keep the 1TB Blue. Adding a 2 or 3 TB black should have you set for a while.

 

Unrelated: I'm unsure of your setup, but getting a boot SSD does wonders for your system.

Alright one question,  i plan to get a 2tb hdd but the black's seem sort of expensive. Will going with a green, blue or red be adequate.

 

Ahh yes i have a 120gb 840 evo as my boot drive. There is nothing like booting in 10 seconds

[Killswitch49]

Well, keep the 1TB Blue. Adding a 2 or 3 TB black should have you set for a while.

 

Unrelated: I'm unsure of your setup, but getting a boot SSD does wonders for your system.

Also the seagate barracuda seems very cheap. How are those

[aeterna789]

Here is how I see the color scheme of WD:

Green: Not that fast but is energy efficient
Blue: General everyday use
Black: Performance oriented
Red: Made for long term abuse like Servers

Seagate Barracuda is a nice and generally reliable HDD. I've been using them since 2005 and only one ever died on me. Even then, that HDD lasted for at least 2 years. My oldest HDD (Barracuda) is going 6 years old now and have no problems.

[Prastupok]

Alright one question,  i plan to get a 2tb hdd but the black's seem sort of expensive. Will going with a green, blue or red be adequate.

 

Ahh yes i have a 120gb 840 evo as my boot drive. There is nothing like booting in 10 seconds

 

If you are putting games on them, I wouldn't use anything less than a 7200RPM drive.

 

Blacks just tend to be the best for that work (with the exception of Velociraptor 10k RPM)

 

@Killswitch49

[Killswitch49]

If you are putting games on them, I wouldn't use anything less than a 7200RPM drive.

 

Blacks just tend to be the best for that work (with the exception of Velociraptor 10k RPM)

 

@Killswitch49

I can get a 4tb barracuda for the same price or a 3tb 7200rpm green for the same price. Are the black still worth the extra.

[ANewFace]

For cheap, and great preformance, a WD 1TB Blue 7200 rpm HDD. $50-$55

[ANDuff]

Alright one question,  i plan to get a 2tb hdd but the black's seem sort of expensive. Will going with a green, blue or red be adequate.

 

Ahh yes i have a 120gb 840 evo as my boot drive. There is nothing like booting in 10 seconds

 

I don't believe they make a 2tb blue (it is a real shame that they do not). A Seagate Barracuda would not be a bad option. In my experience it is really just luck if a hard drive is going to fail or not. 

[Prastupok]

I can get a 4tb barracuda for the same price or a 3tb 7200rpm green for the same price. Are the black still worth the extra.

 

Greens I'd avoid for gaming altogether.. They have an annoying habit of parking the head.

 

I suggest you do some reading on the different lines of WD drives and see for yourself, then compare them to Seagate. Make your decision on what you want for what you need.

 

@Killswitch49

[Captain_WD]

After i bought the eidos anthology i fully filled up my 1tb wd blue hdd. Now i am looking to get a second drive and i probably know what i want but want a second opinion. I am thinking of getting a 2tb black. DO you guys recommend anything else? Thx

 

 

Hey Killswitch49,

 

It really depends on what you need from that drive and what you will be running on it

I could describe the drives from the WD line for you to get a better idea which one is what:

 

WD Blue is your regular everyday drive that is most commonly used for regular computing, light gaming and workloads and combined with SSD. It is fully capable to run most games as well as many programs for editing or programming. Its capacity goes up to 1TB. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=jkApMG

 

WD Green is your energy-efficient drive that works cool, quiet and saves a lot of power. It is designed for backups and secondary storage. Its features allow it to be a great choice for quiet backup builds or for archiving. It is mostly chosen for massive media storage (up to 6TB) in builds that have another drive for the OS and active programs and games. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ECHBXI

 

WD Black is the performance drive in WD's consumer line. It is the fastest among them and has good features such as a built-in dual-core CPU that makes the drive great for multitasking. It is designed for heavy gaming, big workloads and intensive file usage. It has a llong, 5-year limited warranty and its mostly used in gaming computers or editing machines. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=BG5TZT

 

WD Red is the NAS/RAID class drive from the consumer series that is designed specifically for RAID environments and NAS devices. It is tuned and optimized for 24/7 performance, RAID arrays and up to 8-bay NAS systems. This drive is often used for backups, stable secondary storage and in streaming builds, as well as NAS and RAID. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=2mGo92

 

WD Red Pro is designed with the same purpose as the regular WD Red, only for larger scales (8 to 16 bays). They have fixed 7,200 rpm (while the regular WD Red has Intellipower), longer warranty and some additional features in the firmware, enabling it to perform even better at larger scale RAID arrays. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ulriCV

 

WD Purple is your surveillance-class drive, designed specifically for surveillance storage, video recording and streaming. It has optimized noise reduction (being the most quiet drive in the consumer line with only 22dBA nooise level during seeking time), significantly reduced frame loss nad optimized firmware. This drive is also used often for desktop computers due to its low noise levels. It has optimized sequential read/write speeds but the random read/write speeds are lower than normal and some people experience problems with it in regular desktops. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Xval95

 

WD VelociRaptor is a fast workstation drive, spinning at 10,000 rpm. It has limited capacity of 1TB and is mainly used in workstations for editing and content creation. People start to replace it with SSDs but still a lot of users prefer regular HDDs. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Vc1D5z

 

WD Black2 is a dual drive that combines a 120GB SSD with a 1TB HDD in one enclosure in 2.5" form factor. It is designed specifically to improve laptop capacity and performance. It is different from a hybrid SSHD because the SSD part is much bigger (120GB compared to 8GB) and works independently from the HDD (while you cannot control what goes on the SSD part of a SSHD). It is mostly used in laptops with only one drive bay for both speed boost and capacity improvement. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=xx0QGY

 

WD AV is a drive that is designed specifically for 24/7 streaming and PVR, DVR and IPTV environments. It is an earlier version of the WD Purple and is still used for constant streaming in TVs, media players, etc. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=mE9t4b

 

Have in mind that games generally rely on storage on for their loading times and FPS and graphics stay unaffected. 

 

@Prastupok gave you some good advice so you should be fine with your choice.

 

Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

 

Captain_WD.