Choosing a good HDD

[Mr_Daniello]

Hi there everybody.

 

Which of these HDDs you recommend? I care about silent and solid hard drive. It will be used mostly to store games, photoshop stuffs, etc.

• Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB
• Segate Barracuda 1TB

Or do you have any other suggestions?

I was thinking about SSHD. Are they worth any interest?

 

Thanks for any interest.

Peace

 

[zzenigmaxzz]

wd greens are reliable and quiet

 

edited cause im an idiot and tired

[ShadowCaptain]

Hi there everybody.

 

Thanks for any interest.

Peace

 

Go SSD if you can, SSHDs are not really worth it for games since they are so large

 

the greens are not good for programs

 

Barracuda or WD Blue (my personal pref) is what you want

 

 

wd greens are reliable and quiet and avoid sshds, they are expensive and the biggest issue is if one part fails you lose both drives, better off getting 2 separate drives 

 

 

its no different to losing one drive, so that makes no sense

[Raccatography]

I have a WD Caviar Blue 1TB and I can't hear it. It's very fast and I play 2/3rds off of that drive. I also use it as storage and scratch disk for Lightroom 6 and Photoshop CS6

[Kirky2k15]

Taken from Tomshardware:

 

WD Green:

 

The main benefit is that they save power and wear by spinning down when they can, this means they're basically best for things likebackup drives which are only in use periodically (e.g - once an hour), if they're made to spin up too often then you obliterate any potential savings you could make, at which point you've got a slightly slower Blue.

 

WD Black = Speed/high end use, extended warranty.

WD Blue = General use.

WD Green = Energy saving for backups or other less frequent use.

WD Red = Some energy saving, continual use, extended warranty, ideal for RAID.

[zzenigmaxzz]

Go SSD if you can, SSHDs are not really worth it for games since they are so large

 

the greens are not good for programs

 

Barracuda or WD Blue (my personal pref) is what you want

 

 

 

 

its no different to losing one drive, so that makes no sense

 

 

ignore me.. its late im thinking dual drives not hybrid >.<

[Mr_Daniello]

Thanks for the advices. I think I will stick with WD Blue

 

Have a nice day everybody.

Peace

[kameshss]

WD Green drives are designed for secondary storage and backups. They are great at running cool, quiet and at saving power. They might be a bit slow for gaming. Even though games rely on storage only for the loading times (initial and in-game), some games need to load huge texture files for the graphics. FPS and graphics wouldn't change, regardless of what drive you are using but with the spin-down feature that saves power, WD Green might cause some lags during the game. I would suggest checking out WD Blue and WD Black for gaming as they are designed for everyday usage and gaming and would be more suitable for your needs. Here are some links to check them out:

WD Blue: http://goo.gl/zsQNPM

WD Black: http://goo.gl/H5PmXx

 

Ask @Captain_WD for more.

[Captain_WD]

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Hey there

 

It really depends on if the things that you will be storing need faster access times or not. WD Green is a great drive for non-demanding data and secondary storage. It does work really quiet and saves energy so if you are looking for a simple storage drive, it would be a good choice. 

WD Blue is a drive designed for everyday computing and can handle pretty much any regular workload you throw at it. It should provide faster performance compared to WD Green but it would also be less quiet and produce more vibrations. 

SSHDs (hybrid drives) are good for single-bay computers that are used mainly for just a few applications since they'll store their load files on the SSD portion for better performance and everything else that is on the HDD will work with regular speeds.

 

Captain_WD.

[Mr_Daniello]

 

Hey there

 

It really depends on if the things that you will be storing need faster access times or not. WD Green is a great drive for non-demanding data and secondary storage. It does work really quiet and saves energy so if you are looking for a simple storage drive, it would be a good choice. 

WD Blue is a drive designed for everyday computing and can handle pretty much any regular workload you throw at it. It should provide faster performance compared to WD Green but it would also be less quiet and produce more vibrations. 

SSHDs (hybrid drives) are good for single-bay computers that are used mainly for just a few applications since they'll store their load files on the SSD portion for better performance and everything else that is on the HDD will work with regular speeds.

 

Captain_WD.

 

Thanks for the dose of useful information.

I have one question for You. What can You say about WD Black drive? Is is a better choice of Blue?

[kameshss]

 

Thanks for the dose of useful information.

I have one question for You. What can You say about WD Black drive? Is is a better choice of Blue?

 

Black has the best performance, but are also the loudest and most power hungry.

Blue is the sweet spot between performance and resource management, hence is the most recommended for home systems.

 

You wouldn't notice performance difference b/w those two unless you run benchmarks.

[Mr_Daniello]

Black has the best performance, but are also the loudest and most power hungry.

Blue is the sweet spot between performance and resource management, hence is the most recommended for home systems.

 

You wouldn't notice performance difference b/w those two unless you run benchmarks.

Thanks for answer.

[kameshss]

Thanks for answer.

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[Captain_WD]

 

Thanks for the dose of useful information.

I have one question for You. What can You say about WD Black drive? Is is a better choice of Blue?

 

 

WD Black drives are designed for more extensive usage, heavier workloads and for more demanding applications so they naturally have better performance, better durability and longer warranty. They are a bit more pricey, though. They can be the better choice for your need as well as an overkill - depends on what you need from your storage. Here's a bit more info on WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=wKoqvt

 

Captain_WD.

[Mr_Daniello]

WD Black drives are designed for more extensive usage, heavier workloads and for more demanding applications so they naturally have better performance, better durability and longer warranty. They are a bit more pricey, though. They can be the better choice for your need as well as an overkill - depends on what you need from your storage. Here's a bit more info on WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=wKoqvt

 

Captain_WD.

Ok. I think thats all what i want to know.

 

Thank You for Your interest.

 

Have a nice day everybody.

Peace.