Western digital or seagate?

[Thenothing]

Which HDD should I get western digital black 1tb or seagate barracuda 2tb? I mostly use it for games and steam

[Guest MinimalEffort]

WD Black OR Blue if its not a drive with an OS on it.

[orangecat]

Personally I use WD drives myself but if they are the same price get the Seagate since it's larger. both are very good brands.

[C_Mike]

They are both good brands. Just choose based on price and capacity requirements.

[Guest]

I'd go WD. I've only had good luck with them!

[Comessy]

My Seagate Barracuda has lasted nearly 10 years now

 

Both are reputable brands, so just choose the cheapest

[aduman]

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[Dimi3os]

I love the WD drives personally.

[Nineshadow]

I'd get a Barracuda over a WD Blue.

The black is good, faster, has a longer warranty, but it's half the capacity of the Barracuda you've listed. (and also loud)

 

Get the Barracuda for more storage.

[Thenothing]

HDD makes noises?

[RZeroX]

HDD makes noises?

I know the WD black make a bit of noise when you are accessing them.

[shirokado]

If its WD 1TB vs Seagate 2TB, then Seagate 2TB.... Both are just as reliable, and just as faulty. I've had my barracuda run for about 4 years, and no problems. And I recently bought WD Reds, and I assume they'll be no problems either.

[Captain_WD]

Which HDD should I get western digital black 1tb or seagate barracuda 2tb? I mostly use it for games and steam

 

Hey Thenothing,

 

Games rely on storage only for their loading times and FPS and graphics stay unaffected. Modern HDDs are pretty close when it comes to speed for gaming so the difference between two drives would be a couple of seconds in loading times, nothing more. Unless you are going with a SSD, I would say pretty much any HDD would do the job for you. I would advise you to get the drive that has, in your opinion, better reviews and features as well as price. I can say for WD Black that it is a good drive that is designed for performance, has some additional features for stability and reliability as well as for speed over regular drives and has a rather long (5-year) warranty.

 

Captain_WD.

[Thenothing]

I know the WD black make a bit of noise when you are accessing them.

wow I never know HDD Makes noises

[shirokado]

wow I never know HDD Makes noises

All hard drives make noises. It's annoying.

[Blade of Grass]

wow I never know HDD Makes noises

My HDD is actually the loudest part of my rig

[Thenothing]

My HDD is actually the loudest part of my rig

does the HDD a continuously making. Noisies or only when u access them?

[natzzzy9119]

SSD's All the way 

 

(I use WD in all other builds)

[foist]

SSD's All the way 

 

I use HDDs for storage of modelling/texturing/render data I want a chance to recover if the drive were to die. SSD's are nice and fast for programs that can easily be redownloaded but if it dies that data is pretty well gone.

 

On topic - I have always used Western Digital but the 2TB Black drive I got for my current build is incredibly loud when it kicks into gear, moreso than old drives I used as daily drivers for years.

[Blade of Grass]

does the HDD a continuously making. Noisies or only when u access them?

Continue and while accessing. It's a enterprise drive so it's not designed to be quiet keep in mind, I have a decently silent rig too.

[STRMfrmXMN]

No mean to harsh on the Captain_WD mellow - he's very smart though - I have never had any sort of good luck with Western Digital. @terrytek seems to not have had so much either.

I've had numerous Caviar Blues go within less than 3 years and that alone strays me away from them. The Blue is the most popular 3.5/2.5" HDD that they sell as far as I can see and if their most popular drive fails on me then something just doesn't sit with me well knowing that.

 

I have only had one Seagate drive die in my entire life and it was in my recent laptop and I do believe I static shocked it, though it could have possibly failed out of nowhere, I do not know. But most of me says static shock as I sorta took the laptop apart while in bed and that was my own fault.

[terrytek]

Not to be mean to Captain_WD here, but WD is utter shit. Probably just my bad luck, but out of the 120 hard drives i've ever had, half were WD, and strangely, they all died. The rest were Seagate, and they never died. Still live to this day.

[Guest]

Not to be mean to Captain_WD here, but WD is utter shit. Probably just my bad luck, but out of the 120 hard drives i've ever had, half were WD, and strangely, they all died. The rest were Seagate, and they never died. Still live to this day.

..and this is what I tell customers not to believe. Look at it this way, if they were as terrible as you state then they'd go broke. Look at OCZ - huge failure rates and they went bust. Chances are either something you have is killing drives or you don't know how to look after them. 

[mr moose]

..and this is what I tell customers not to believe. Look at it this way, if they were as terrible as you state then they'd go broke. Look at OCZ - huge failure rates and they went bust. Chances are either something you have is killing drives or you don't know how to look after them. 

 

Or he's just lying, 100% failure rate on WD over 60 units versus 0% failure rate on seagate over same number of units.  You've got more chance of winning the lottery several times over than having this happen to you. 

[othertomperson]

I use HDDs for storage of modelling/texturing/render data I want a chance to recover if the drive were to die. SSD's are nice and fast for programs that can easily be redownloaded but if it dies that data is pretty well gone.

 

I don't like this argument against SSDs. It implies you aren't making regular backups of the stuff you care about losing anyway and are willing to rely on data recovery attempts after failure.