WD Red 4TB GIVEAWAY!

[CharlieSheather]

1. Until very recently I was running 2 crucial M4 64gb's in R0, with nightly backups to 2x2tb WD greens in R1. I chose M4's because at the time they were the best price vs performance vs reliability. I chose WD greens mainly because of price, and at the time the only other option was seagate barracuda and I had a bad experience with one previously, so went for the greens.

 

About a month ago one of my M4's died. I got a new one on warranty, but decided I was over the R0 setup, it was nice and fast, but no trim support and the increased chance of failure wasn't worth it to me anymore. I opted for (of course) a 128gb 840 Pro, and its been going great, I haven't noticed much of a speed difference.

 

I put the new M4 I got back on warranty in my parents' office computer, they love it. Oh and I also have a 1tb Samsung USB3 portable, that I mostly use for transferring large amounts of data.

 

2. Facebook share from (Charlie Sheather): https://www.facebook.com/CharlieSheather/posts/628792393821961

 

3. Twitter share with Twitter handle @charliesheather: https://twitter.com/charliesheather/status/375064021453373440

 

Good luck to all and thanks to WD and LTT for another awesome giveaway!!

 

-Charlie

[MonsieurTeaCup]

I'd love to have the chance to be able to run these bad boys in a raid configuration, I'll be able to run everything so much faster, especially since I own a lot of games on steam.

 

I have a 240gb SSD used as a boot drive and a crummy 1tb hdd used for storage, only 5200rpm.

[_ASSASSIN_]

holy crap nearly 1000 members reading

I run an 128GB SSD as my boot drive and a 2 WD Greens for storage, one 2TB for general storage such as games and programs, and another TB for recording gameplay
I run it because I love my fast boot times and I love having my games run smooth while I record, and having tons of space for all my games for steam summer sale

[cuddles]

I'm currently running a 128GB Corsair Force Series GS as a boot drive and for all of the applications that I'm too lazy to move. Got it considerably reduced in a sale. Though I perhaps would've preferred a Samsung drive or something, it was a definite purchase for the price, and is doing pretty damn well to this date. Also run a 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive for games and storage, actually filling up quicker than expected. I recommend it to everyone who's looking for a hard drive, doesn't break the bank but the performance from it is top. And then there's a 320GB WB Blue drive from an old system which I just like to have there, though I never really do use it.

So overall, a relatively inexpensive, quick and spacious storage configuration. Very content with it.

 

Twitter @cameronspixels - https://twitter.com/cameronspixels/status/375067154288095232

[KOFDarkPaladin]

My new build will only have an 128Gb ssd until I can afford a storage drive and this would definitely save me some money! Currently I have a 1TB drive with 179GB left on it and like 80% of the drive is PC games and backups.

 

[Twitter] @KOFDarkPaladin: https://twitter.com/KOFDarkPaladin/status/375065766195769344

 

[Facebook] Shel Patrick: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=707385469276258&id=100000144331600

[tito]

I only have a desktop PC, so speed and capacity are very important to me. I use a Mushkin Chronos SSD for the OS, it was my choice because it was in my budget at the moment of purchase and I also have a WD Caviar Blue wich I decided to get because of the warranty that was offered to me when I purchased it and also there werent any black drives left in the store, and finally I use an external Seagate GoFlex, for my multimedia connection, it gives me amazing speed, portability and a high capacity, the Segate drive is also used to back up my critical data, so I have it on 2 different places in every moment.

 

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[Stephie_Girl]

I am currently using a 120GB SSD from samsung and a 1TB random HD I got off eBay for storage.  I got it for economical reasons of speed for boot times and mass storage for cheap for all my games.  I would like a SATA II 6.0GBPS HD that I can store EVERYTHING on!!

 

Entry #4: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/9873847306#1

Name Stephí(alt+0237)

[Friender]

I've got a stock Acer Aspire 1TB hard drive. I've got it because... well, it came with the computer. I'm going to be upgrading this year (first build, wish me luck dudes). It'll be made with mostly salvaged and pre-owned parts, so I'd love to have a new hard drive for it.

[LeanF]

1- I am using a WD Blue Scorpio 320GB for my OS, programs and some music and an extra 2.5" in an external enclosure for backups and photos (It is a Seagate 80GB, but I can't remember which model right now ) When I first bought my rig I chose WD because I read a lot on the internet and everybody said WD was the way to go, simply because of that. And the Seagate was a gift from my uncle.

 

2- https://www.facebook.com/leandrof96, (Lean Femia) click on the link to see the post I did.

3- https://twitter.com/LeanFemia, (@LeanFemia) click on the link to see the tweet.

 

[acturisme]

2xOCZ Agility 3's in Raid 0 for boot. 

4xSamsung HDD's 

One for Programs

One for Games

One for Pictures, Music, and Video.

One for Linux

1xToshiba 3tb external drive for backup.

Why?  Because I wanted it that way. It seemed like separating all of those things was a good idea.  

The backup is for everything I can't replace or re-install easily.

https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.geninatti.1?hc_location=stream

https://twitter.com/acturisme/statuses/375067167038791680

[gpiper14]

Need these drives for a NAS to backup a lot of irreplaceable data from all the computers in my house

[Ethanololol]

Running a 1TB for storing games etc., have a 90GB ssd as a boot drive and a few select programs. It was all I could afford at the time.

[Kuzma]

It came with my laptop V_V 5400rpm is saddenning.

[Boosted_i6]

Two intel 520 SSDs in raid 0 for the OS

A single WD 500 GB Blue drive for games and mass storage

A 2TB WD external drive for backups

[blaze124]

got a really old 80GB hard drive i found in my dads office i use that for OS and some software i use and i got a 1TB WD black on sale at best buy for $80 i needed a storage drive and it was what i could afford at the time.  (Jordan) https://www.facebook.com/?ref=cws

[ChrisSC2]

I currently own a 250 GB blue WD refurbished, for the pure fact that it was the cheapest thing I could find and college don't pay for itself haha. 

 

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Good luck and have fun everyone  

[b1ack1otus]

I am currently using 3 Drives in my system:

 

1. Toshiba 500GB - for Programs and Softwares

2. WD Green 3TB - for storage

3. Intel SSD 120GB - for OS

 

Twitter: http://www.mediafire.com/view/zg3u281ik72e894/LinusTechTips_RT_WD.PNG (Wartortle @mfoee)

 

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don't know how to link it!

[NoobsWeStand]

using a 500gb hhd, because it was cheap... Running out of room, quickly...  D:

[Sarcasm_Required]

I'm running a 500+160 HDDs and an extra 80GB for the hotswap bay. The 500 is from before SSDs were even close to affordable, the 160 a pullout that I use for videos only and the extra 80 is just an off-site backup mainly for Steam games that doesn't need to be plugged in 24/7. Built on a tight budget, and I chose to sacrifice drive speed for real performance. The other two drives were retrofitted just to avoid clutter on the boot drive, get that as fast as possible.

[unidentical]

On my laptop I run a 256 gig mSATA bootdrive and a 320 gb conventional hdd, this is just so I could get quick boots but also have room for things if I needed it.

 

On my PC I run a 120 gig OS and and apps SSD, a 240gb games ssd and 3 500gb HDDs in RAID 5 for backup and junk files like temp dirs and downloads and all the rest. This was built specifically for reliable, smooth operating performance because I didn't want to tinker anymore.

 

I also have a NAS file server that is quickly running out of space with 3 WD green 2TB drives in RAID5 serving out my movie, music, and pictures to all of my other devices. At the time, and these are getting quite old now, the green drives seemed to me to be the best NAS solution because they were quite affordable, large, and energy efficient.

 

The whole storage principle across all of my devices has been solid performance and simple reliability. With more and more adultish responsibilities I have less and less time to tweak and fiddle and rebuild and repair.

 

Twitter entry: https://twitter.com/Long_Bones/statuses/375067741549367296

[liquidxerox]

Right now I'm running an intel SSD 240gb as a boot drive, 1TB WD Black as storage and another 3TB external seagate as storage as well. I use an SSD for boot drive because it really speeds up real world day to day tasks. I wished my two storage drives were matching sizes so I could setup raid 1, but currently I just do some manual backup between them when I deem something important. 

 

Twitter: Retweeted linus' tweet https://twitter.com/VCLT

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorcltam/posts/10153260160860372

[silberdrachi]

I love my SSD, but i learned the hard way never to trust any data storage device. Everything i have is backed up on at least 3 different locations, media types, and an offsite backup to be sure. There isnt much worse than knowing your data just committed suicide and you cant recover the thing due in a day.

 

Current config is based on the fact that i like the SSD for boot and building programs and running my builds on, and the internal storage is mostly for (tons of) games and music. The NAS that i have is more long term and media storage. I learned a long time ago that its never worth deleting something if you have space to store it, so long as its organized. You wouldnt believe how often i have to dig through archives of some project looking for some obscure issue or conversation and it ended up saving my ass. With storage costs so low now days (220 for 4 tb?) people have no excuse for getting rid of things that they might need in the future.

 

Current Config:

 

Desktop:
1 240gb SSD (OS Drive)

1 1tb HDD (Data)

1 750gb HDD (Old external somewhat turned into a data drive)

 

Laptop:

1 256gb SSD (OS-Win7/linux)

1 1tb HDD (OS-Win8/Data)

 

Thecus N4800:

4 3TB in Raid 5

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Silberdrachi/status/375071160821506048

[staticalpizza]

I'm Currently using a OCZ vertex 3 120GB and 2x 1TB WD green Drives in RAID0, using the SSD for just the OS so i can get some speed for the OS and using the 2 WD Drives for games, i couldn't afford to get better drives at the time of building my PC and didn't know much about Raid arrays at the time.

[James_AJ]

I currently have a laptop with 256GB SSD and a 1TB external hard drive. The reason I went that way was because 128GB of SSD was too small, and the 1TB drive is sufficient-ish for all my media and editing videos. However, as my laptop only supports USB 2 and Thunderbolt, I can transfer data at max 30MB/s, which still works really well for Real-time H.264 and that's why I got the 1TB external (small) hard drive. The shortfall of this setup is that 1TB is actually running very close to being full (85GB) and it's sad that I have to have an external hard drive dongling on my laptop, even if I wanted to watch just a movie.. Also, shame on me but the 256GB SSD and 1TB hard drive came really cheap and I guess that's one another reason I chose this setup xP

 

Twitter: @ItsmeJamesAJ: https://twitter.com/ItsmeJamesAJ/status/375068380690001921

[Baking Soda]

1. My current data configuration consists of 2 SSDs, and 2 hard drives. The first SSD is a 180GB Intel 520 which serves as my Windows 8 boot drive. The second SSD is a 90GB Corsair Force Series drive has my Fedora 18 boot partition. The two hard drives are 2TB Seagate Barracudas in raid 1 - this where I store all of my personal documents. The Intel SSD I bought brand new when it came out simply because SSDs are vroomity-vroom vroom, and Intel is a reliable brand. Corsair SSD was given as a gift, and I figured I would throw on Fedora. The Barracudas are there because I've always had good experiences with Seagate, and they were exactly what I needed for my storage needs.