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orangecat
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I currently have my steam installation on a 640GB WD Blue that i have in a external enclosure and its near full. the drive is becoming slow because it's full and I have defragmented it a bunch of times but I always move stuff around and my games load to slow. i recently figured out how to reinstall origin without having to re download my games again and I wanted to put both Steam and origin on their own HDD so I can separate them from my OS drive and my external mass storage but I cant figure out what drive to go with. Currently i am stuck on a WD drive because IMO WD makes the best quality drives. I want something for performance but can't decide to get another blue or a black.

 

PS: drive will be 1TB in size or larger if the price is good.

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Seagate makes rather nice 1TB+ drives with good prices. 

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^ This. The 1TB Barracuda 7200 is available on Newegg for 70$: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840

Also, price scales really well with larger drives. Basically, 1TB is about $70-80, an extra $20 will get you 2TB. Eventually it ends up being about $40 total per TB on larger drives (which is sweet!)

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I mean, yeah, you have two options, WD and Seagate.

 

You're not really any more or less likely to have problems going with one drive or another.  So just pick something.

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