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Hello,

 

My HDD just failed and I am in the market for a new one. I don't really have a budget, but that is not to say I want to spend $150-200 on a new one. I need at least 1TB, but I have been out of the HDD game for a while and I don't know what to look for. I mean, except for the obvious Western Digital or Seagate.

 

Anyhow, can any of you help my pick a new one out? It will be used for storage...mostly games.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Hey johnnyTheMac,
 
If you plan on using the drive for gaming and you don't have a SSD, I would suggest checking out WD Black (as the guys suggested). It is a performance drive with an integrated dual-core processor that managed multitasking very well and works great as a gaming drive. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=4J5mDs
 
If you don't need a higher performance drive and a regular one would do the job, I would suggest checking out WD Blue. It can handle gaming perfectly fine and is a bit more quiet than WD Black, but is limited to 1TB in size. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=oYdQlK
 
Games rely on storage only for their loading times and FPS and graphics aren't affected in any way. Pretty much any drive would handle most gaming, unless a certain game is more storage-demanding and needs to load bigger texture files while in-game. :)
 
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Hello,

 

My HDD just failed and I am in the market for a new one. I don't really have a budget, but that is not to say I want to spend $150-200 on a new one. I need at least 1TB, but I have been out of the HDD game for a while and I don't know what to look for. I mean, except for the obvious Western Digital or Seagate.

 

Anyhow, can any of you help my pick a new one out? It will be used for storage...mostly games.

 

Thanks!

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5AD1P08389&cm_re=hitachi_2tb-_-1Z4-0005-00041-_-Product

These are the ones I use Because there cheap and I havent had one die on me yet but even if it did I could buy 2 for the price of a WD Black 

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if you are scared of the life time of the drive you can go for a WD Black of respective space size wanted, but if you don't you can't go wrong with a wd blue.

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Western Digital Black is good. 

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Hello,

 

My HDD just failed and I am in the market for a new one. I don't really have a budget, but that is not to say I want to spend $150-200 on a new one. I need at least 1TB, but I have been out of the HDD game for a while and I don't know what to look for. I mean, except for the obvious Western Digital or Seagate.

 

Anyhow, can any of you help my pick a new one out? It will be used for storage...mostly games.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Hey johnnyTheMac,
 
If you plan on using the drive for gaming and you don't have a SSD, I would suggest checking out WD Black (as the guys suggested). It is a performance drive with an integrated dual-core processor that managed multitasking very well and works great as a gaming drive. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=4J5mDs
 
If you don't need a higher performance drive and a regular one would do the job, I would suggest checking out WD Blue. It can handle gaming perfectly fine and is a bit more quiet than WD Black, but is limited to 1TB in size. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=oYdQlK
 
Games rely on storage only for their loading times and FPS and graphics aren't affected in any way. Pretty much any drive would handle most gaming, unless a certain game is more storage-demanding and needs to load bigger texture files while in-game. :)
 
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Id get a WD green or red, its not the fastest but its pretty quiet. Loud HDD's make me cringe 

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