WD Red 4TB GIVEAWAY!

[Sharky]

Ive got a kingston hyper 3k 120gb for my boot drive got this because it was a good price and recommended by Logan  

2*500gb seagate hard drive in raid 0 this was my old boot drives now used for steam and apps when i got these drives it was to replace a ageing 74gb WD raptor and couldn't afford a ssd at the time and there were i believe the fastest drives at the time 

1TB seagate hard drive this was external hard drive that got as a present a few years ago I use it as an internal drive now for storage of music films and back ups

finally  i have a 2tb seagate hardrive which i got because the 1tb was not enough any more and it was cheep

 

The old 74gb raptor is still running but now in the seagate external enclosure used for moving files 

[Matsy]

I am currently running a 256gb Samsung 830 SSD as my boot drive and drive to run games/programs from to get the extra speed an SSD gives.  I got this SSD when the samsung cashback deal was on and I got it for a great price for the performance it gives, so I got it because it was cheap and it had good reviews and I wanted the extra performance an SSD gives you over a traditional hard drive.

 

I also have a Western Digital 2TB hard drive which is used for storage and back-ups daily, It's pretty old, I've had it for years and Its getting towards the end of its life as-well as pretty much full at this point.  I got it from Ebuyer because it was cheap at the time and I'm only still using it because I don't have the money for a bigger and better solution.  I don't currently have the money to upgrade to NAS setup to be able to safely and securely store my game files (which I have allot of...) and my other files.

 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/MatsyLR/status/375281506618331136 @MatsyLR

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Community Site - Hexus - Username - Matsy - http://forums.hexus.net/pc-hardware-components/294485-wb-red-4tb-giveaway-linustechtips.html#post3037957

 

Awesome giveaway!

[Traveldog]

• I have a Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB. The price on it was right. I don't currently have any additional HDD storage.

@0carbs0sugar: https://twitter.com/0carbs0sugar/status/375281824013901824

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[Jurbeli]

I have 120gb OCZ Agility 3 for Windows, programs and some of my favourite games. 120gb have been sufficient with some tweaks. I also have WD Green 500gb for storage and external 500gb Seagate for backup. I use them because they offered good storage to price ratio.

[zeros]

1. I use a 4 years old 1TB WD Green Drive for my boot drive because it is awesome (even if it's not intended for boot drive, bought it with my first PC still have it working perfectly). Then I have a 2TB Seagate drive as dust collector in my PC, bought it because it was cheap and it half died after 7 months. Still waiting to get a new drive, backup my stuff from it and RMA it. Was thinking to get a 2TB Red drive but don't have the money. And lastly a 250GB WD Scorpio laptop drive as backup drive for family pictures/videos, savegames/documents and other important files.

 

2. Twitter share with Twitter handle @masterofzeros: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/375060934026203137

 

Edit: was watching Linus & Pirillo's evening and I was remembered that I want to build a NAS. Been wanting to move to a NAS for quite a while, though money issues wont let me.

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Hi yesterday I moved my main desktop over to a 250GB Samsung EVO. This is the only drive in my system as I want it to run very fast (Very Very Fast) and cool and quiet along with not taking up too much room in my Prodigy. I then have a aData S510 120GB in my HTPC for the same reasons as my desktop. Snappier changing menus and obviously totally silent and cool running. This drive is what the Samsung EVO replaced in my desktop. Its served me well although at the time being one of the lower range SSD's around.

 

The above and pretty much everything else with a internet connection is connected to the media hub of the network which is my Synology DS411j NAS. Unfortunately I couldn't afford to fill it totally when I first got it so its currently only running 3x 2TB Samsung F3's in Synology hybrid raid. I decided to go with these drives at the time due being very happy with the other Samsung drives I had used before this (Before SSD's hit the market) They also had quite a large density platter and lower rpm speed so while keeping speeds fairly decent should run abit cooler and quieter. I had a few problems when I first got them regarding updating to a firmware but it seems they have been ok since. 

 

On my NAS I store all types of media which is then available to all the connected devices. I feel my NAS is defiantly the weak part of my system and would love to upgrade it but as you can imagine buying it and filling it with new drives would cost a fair amount.

 

Thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize.

 

Good luck everyone. 

 

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[Hyrikan]

I'm running an Samsung 840 256GB SSD and 4 Western Digital Blacks in Raid 10. SSD is partitioned into 2 Parts - One for OS and Applications like Firefox and Thunderbird (80GB) and the rest is purely for my steam library and diablo III. My critical data is backupped to a 8TB server with 4WD Reds in RAID5.

I chose this config because I wanted fast boot times, while conserving big storage on my desktop. Since i didn't care much about the costs I put the HDDs in RAID10 to get some more speed out of them. I do nightly backups to my server, because I can't afford loosing some of the data on my desktop.

[Mo5]

I have a Samsung Spinpoint F3 (1TB) and I've got it because when I was buying my PC back in 2011 it was one of the fastest HDDs for the money. Plus 2 1TB external drives for backup. I've got those because they were affordable.

 

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[Helltech]

I'm using 1 Vertex 4 512 GB, I got this because I needed an SSD for speed and it was on sale on black friday ($299, still an AWESOME deal in my opinion). This was an awesome upgrade over my 300GB Velociraptor that I gave to my friend (miss that thing). I used to use a 1TB WD Blue, but recently upgraded to a 3TB Red. I don't have it in a NAS or anything but it seemed very reliable, I then gave the 1TB Blue to that same friend. 3TB honestly wasn't enough space for me, I have many digital artworks on my computer because I print them out on canvas for a family member who is an artist and am quickly learning the limits of 3TB. I could split the works up between more than one drive or get another 3TB and run raid but the reliability and cost there just isn't something I can do right now. 

[MrSuperb]

Using a Samsung 120GB as boot drive (OS X) because it was cheap and fast, a 500GB HDD for data storage (lots of photos) and another 500GB HDD for Windows 8 (games and win only programs)

 

Will buy a 500-750GB SSD this winter and throw does noisy HDDs 'away' (i.e. put them in some other pc).

[Stefan Becker]

Well, i run a single 1TB Seagate Barracuda I think. My computer is built by a company here in Denmark, so that is why i am only running that. With that said i would love to have a bigger HDD. I am building a new PC soon, so i would love to have a big HDD for mass storage. My MacBook Pro Retina runs a 256GB Samsung SSD and a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus. The SSD was the main selling point for me. I am using the HDD for school, and the 256GB for more personal stuff.

 

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[hambobolubia]

so you want to hear about my hard drives? ok i have 4 i have one 200GB WD OEM drive that came in my computer it was full when i got it. i knew i needed more storage so i asked the computer tech at my school she gave me 2 old drives one 40GB and one 80GB both are also WD OEM drives the a friend gave me there broken ps3 so i pulled the 40GB drive from that it was a seagate OEM drive (lots of OEM drives) this one was kinda tricky to mount when i did get it mounted i took a pic and posted for the most getto pc contest to win a copy of (some steam game i forget what it was) but i think i still have the pic

 

 

so yep just 1 of those 4 TB hdds will 10x my storage

heres the links for more trys to win

 

facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nick.morrison.545/posts/716239641726454

twitter      : https://twitter.com/hambobolubia/statuses/375296038669533184

and other:(hard to chose where to put it um....) 3rd link comming soon

[Conelton]

Thanks Linus and WD for the giveaways and the PAX content. It's awesome!

 

I have a Samsung 64GB SSD for my OS. I bought that because it was one of the best performing drives on the market at the time. I chose SSD because I wanted to have a quick boot time. It worked. I also have a 500GB WD Blue drive for media and games. I chose the WD Blue because I knew I could rely on WD to make a well-built product with a good warranty (not sucking up, honest). I also have a laptop with a 64GB OCZ Vertex SSD, again, for fast boot-up and snappy applications. I'm planning on building a small home server in the near future and I intend to use WD Red drives for that because they're optimised for that set up.

 

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Twitter @Conelton https://twitter.com/Conelton/status/375300254871990274

[Stickeric]

I have 1 Kingston Hyper X 3k for my OS (120gb) and 2 1 TB WD black running in raid 0 for my games (Really games only) and an 320 GB samsung HDD.

 

I really could use another HDD as the 320GB is old and slow (50mb/s) and the 2 WD black is for games only.

[Keen_Interest]

I have a 2TB Green Drive in my desktop for storage, it was a decent size, and what I could afford when I built the machine.

[Adamz946]

I currently use Windows Home Server 2011 which I initially built out of parts from my old rig, but is now a much more modest spec for a computer that's running 24/7.

My PC has a single drive for games, files and so on, then I have four Samsung F3 1TB drives in RAID5 using a low end RAID card I got off eBay which is in the server (3WARE 9650SE 4LPML).

I then use a WD 2TB green drive to store computer backups and as a backup for all those important photo's and documents. 

 

I chose to create this storage setup after watching video's about WHS and the storage solution Linus uses, then used my budget to replicate it somewhat. I've lost photo's in the past from drive failure and I don't want to risk it happening again hence why I run RAID and then a backup.

 

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[mtbdude641]

1.       My storage setup for my desktop is fairly simple, I use a 320gb 5400rpm 2.5 inch drive, which is my main C drive, then for storage I have a 1TB storage drive. I useto have a regular 3.5 inch drive for my main drive but it stopped working. So I just got a cheap laptop drive at my local best buy. My system is probably about 5 years old and its my gaming pc, its running a gtx 275 and a dual core. I wont go into any more details about my crappy specs, but I would like to upgrade to a ssd eventually , but I need to upgrade more core components on my system before I upgrade my storage system.

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[Slavish]

Very nice giveaway. 

 

Main Computer:

I'm running a 500 GB Samsung 840 EVO for my OS and games. Using it for pure speed and it was good value for the size and performance.

3 TB Seagate for general storage, music, video, etc. I got it for a good price. 

 

Synology DS-413 NAS:

4x 3 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 3000DM001 running these mainly for the good price I got on them. They were an affordable way to populate the NAS. Don't know how reliability will pan out. I'm using the NAS for storage for the whole house, SSD backups, music & video server, etc.

 

Twitter share: https://twitter.com/Andy393/status/375310570779463680

[edwinooi1991]

I have a 1TB WD Caviar Black (2011) running in my rig, 2X500GB WD My Passport + a 320GB WD Scorpio Blue(2010, that I salvaged from my laptop) as an portable external hard drive and 1+4TB  WD My Book as station external hard drive that I store all my important back up document and media files in. I had this kind of set up because I have planned so that I can access all my files with all my devices that have  usb connection. Not to mention that I am a WD fanboy since 2/3 of my Seagate drive failed on me (within 2 years time frame from the date of purchase) and I seems to have a better luck with WD product.
 

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[tidu]

Running a 256GB Kingston SSD on my PC and a Fujitsu NAS box on the network with 2x1TB drives on it for nightly backups. Both were the cheapest solution I could find at the moment of purchase.

[pwel]

I have a 1TB WD red, a 2TB WD green and a 3TB WD red and I need more storage.  Having thos 4TB would be so great!

[knight_40k]

I use a 128GB Samsung 830 SSD for OS, Games and some Programs because it improves load times and overall snappy-ness of the system but I also use a 5 year old 500GB Seagate HDD which I salvaged from an older system for general storage purposes. I haven't bought a newer/larger HDD because I would rather put that money elsewhere as I maintain a small LAN room of 3 other Gaming Systems which can be quite demanding on the bank account. (See signature link for proof of LAN room)

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/knight_40k/status/375314200010059777

[Howietzer]

In my desktop I have a Haitachi 1gb. The reason I got it is because when I ordered my parts at microcenter the WD blue 1tb I ordered wasn't available when I went to pick up the order, so I just got the cheapest 1tb drive they had. Saving up for a WD black and 128gb ssd now though.

[snazy2000]

1. I have Multiple computers, laptops and mobile devices in my home and i wanted to be able to stream movies and all my files between them all, i have a 3TB Raid 5 Array in my file server, plus a 1TB Seagate drive for my Hyper-V Virtual Machine lab which is also in my file server. The reason i went the route i did is becuase of cost of the drives at the time. 

 

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[fehwalker]

Desktop - WD WD2500KS 250Gb drive for boot (came out of an old server), Seagate ST350063 500Gb for data (came out of the NAS when I upgraded a drive)

 

NAS - Synology Diskstation 411j - 2 x Seagate ST350063 500Gb, 1 x WD1002FAEX 1Gb, 1 x WD10EARS 1Gb - got three Seagate drives before the NAS, for future use in a RAID/NAS setup; got the two 1Gb drives when they were on sale.

 

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