WD Red 4TB GIVEAWAY!

[Lovercide]

I'm a Western Digital diehard.........

     Primary Internal: WD 1 TB Green 820 Gigs Win 7, 180 Gigs Win Vista (because there are some devices that only work under Vista!)

     Secondary Internal: WD 2 TB Green........Video archival workhorse!

     Primary External: WD 2 TB USB 3.0 My Book Essential...........Semi-Portable Gaming Storehouse!

     Other HD's are connected via a SATA to USB Adapter..........slow transfer rate.........

 

Having a 4 TB dirve would make sorting the chaos (a necessary evil!) so much easier!

 

[Goldenboy]

I'm still using my 160gb Seagate and the only hard drive i have since 2008... I hope i can win this WD Red 4TB GIVEAWAY!

 

Well, at the time this was widely available and cheap and very reliable HD... Still running strong! I really hope i can win this giveaway... please. 

[LlamaDom]

I am using 2 Seagate 1TB drives in RAID 0. Why? Because Dell.

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Would really love to win the Red drives. Plenty of space to store all those Linus memes ( just kidding, I'm not that creepy).

[For]

My current setup is like this:

 

for my desktop I boot from a 256GB kingston SSD, this has my OS on it as well as my games.

For storing my movies, music and photos I have 4 HDDs in my desktop with a total of 7.5TB storage.

 

Basically I have a 1TB and 2TB drive in a windows 8 storage pool these hold my data, then I have a 3TB HDD that backs up that data and a 1.5TB HDD as a buffer between the SSD and HDD since I am usually too lazy to put something in the place where it needs to go right of the bat. The reason why I don't use red drives is because while I do have 4 HDDs in my PC I don't use them 24/7 (actually planning to do a NAS PC build with the HDDs I have) so even tho my PC is on 24/7 because I boot from an SSD the HDDs don't spin up while they aren't being used meaning they will not degrade eachothers lifecycle because of the vibrations.

 

The 3TB HDD has it's own special story used to be an external WD HDD and I once accidentally plugged my laptop power cord into it instead of the HDD power cord while I was half asleep.

Luckily I was able to recover the drive and still use it as an internal drive without ANY data loss or any problems for over 2 years now so thumbs up to WD for making external HDDs where the fuse on the PCB of the HDD case will actually protect the HDD  :lol:

 

For my laptop I have a 120GB OCZ vertex3 SSD to boot from and I replaced the optical drive with a WD 1TB scorpio blue because I need it to store VMs on for college.

SmartTV downstairs has a WD 2TB external 2.5 inch HDD for recording TV, the reason why I picked that is because 2TB is plenty of space to save a lot of 1080P recordings and you won't have to erase movies if you don't want to because there is more then enough room to store movies in case you want to watch them again in a few weeks/months.

 

Love WD HDDs keep up the good work guys!

[FredG89]

Right now all the storage I have is a Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive in my desktop/gaming pc which is almost full, space goes quickly when you have all your content on one drive. I have a unRAID server that's almost finished being pieced together. It is a cheap AMD A6 bundled with a mATX motherbaord and 4gigs of ram, no HDDs at the moment. 

 

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[hgpot]

1. I run an OCZ Agility 3 128GB SSD as my boot drive, a 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM HDD as my programs and games drive. I have 2TB Seagate Freeagent for documents, installers, backups and a 3TB Seagate Freeagent for media. I've been looking into a NAS so I think I'd buy one if I get these drives. 
 

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[elmonteslim]

The number of times I've rammed the hard drives to capacity in my rigs forced me to rethink my storage strategy - like I had one!?

 

I did a fair amount of research and got a deal on a Qnap TS-469 pro - a 1tb WD red was thrown in, making it cheaper than a bare box on the same site - yeah, I was puzzled too, but decided not to complain.

 

To populate the box, I got my hands on five 3tb WD reds, setting them up as a - more or less - 9gb array in RAID 5, with a spare, in the event that one of the drives goes down and I'm waiting to RMA it.

 

Over here - in England - the 3tb reds - as opposed to the 1s, 2s and 4s - are at the sweet spot for gbs/$.

 

Doing it arse-backwards - that's 'ass' in English - has saved me the price of a 1tb drive for the rig that I would've normally built first.

 

Proposed storage specs - for my upcoming build - include 2x128gb Samsung 840 pros in RAID 0 as the system drive - I like to multi-boot - with a 500gb 840 Evo as a storage/application drive.  I can use the 1tb red as local back-up.

 

Linus - on the last WAN show - indirectly prompted me to drop half a grand on a boatload of fast DDR3.  I've been keen on the concept of RAM drives since Win98 days and I have experiments to do, with virtualisation.

 

One of my rigs has a couple of hard drive caddies built into the 51/4" bays - SATA and IDE - so I can quickly  - a relative term - dump what's on the drives to the NAS - and sort it all out at my leisure.

 

Being a 60s psychonaut - and very fussy about my music - I've been buying CDs of all my old vinyl and ripping them, uncompressed, to the NAS - mp3s?  Don't make me laugh!

 

I like a good movie too - so much ripping to do - and have an awful lot of DVDs.  I only have three blu ray movies, for now - and the first season of 'Heroes' on HD-DVD.  That'll change quickly, how long will 9tb last?

 

One thing I like about the Qnap is that I can set up my own personal cloud.  I expect to be travelling in November, so I'll have an opportunity for a good test.

 

After being broke and computing on a shoestring for most of the last three and a bit decades - my self-built ZX-80 still works - it's a massive relief to be in a position to set this all up.

 

I love each of my rigs dearly.  I built them all from the late 90s to the middle/late noughties and bought most of the components second-hand.  They range from a 128mb K6III+ 450 with a Voodoo3 3000, to a 4gb FX-60 with a pair of X1950XTXs in crossfire.

 

My last year's Nexus 7 seems faster.

 

So, a Haswell rig to build in the next coupla weeks, followed by whatever comes after Haswell-e.

 

My digital life is about to accelerate dramatically and about bloody time!

 

 

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[Feeterican]

Currently running on my gaming PC: Corsair Force 3 240GB for boot and a WD  Velociraptor 600GB for all my games witch I'm running out of room. I only have 200GB left on it.

 

Running on my old PC: WD Blue 320GB sata 2 for boot and a WD Black 2TB sata 3 for all storage like Movies, Music, Photos, Programs (old drivers and programs) and Porn I only have 500GB left and still filling up fast.

 

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[Nizzel]

Right now i am running 1.5TB WD Green drive and a Samsung 840 pro 256GB also got an 40GB seagate hdd that i got from my ps3 that stopped working and was way to lazy to sell it so someone could repair it or try and repair it myself so now its just in my pc. 

 

after hearing tons of stuff about how great SSD are on your channel i decided to get one and thats why i am now using that for my OS and games where its actualy important to have fast load times forexample league of legends cause if my game crash during the game i want to get fast back into the game. 

the reason for the WD green drive is just it was cheap and well i needed some mass storage so yah. 

[whamanat]

I have a WD MyBook Live Duo 2x2 NAS that supports my MBP with 128 GB Toshiba SSD. The Toshiba uses the same process NAND as the Samsung, and it's 20 bucks cheaper! I have Mac OS X and Windows 8 split 88/40 on my SSD, so the NAS really helps me be able to still be able to access my information, even though I have next to no storage on my physical drive. I run the NAS in RAID 0, since all it really has is movies and stuff, which I also have backed up on a standalone WD Green 2 TB drive. Having some 4 TB reds would be nice so I could keep the total amount of storage I have, along with some stability. 

 

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[LOST TALE]

I have a desktop, I run a Seagate Barracuda 750GB , I dont know the exact one because it's from a leftover from a prebuilt computer. I Don't have any SSD's because I don't have the money for it. I use that HDD because I already had it and didn't have to buy it. I find the need to clean my computer of unneeded data to clear the space for new data. If I haven't cleared space so far I would have already passed 750GB.

 

I can run RAID 0 with my board and have the needed interfaces. Would be awesome

 

English is my 3rd.. ultimate defence!

 

[charlocharlie]

I have a 320GB hard drive that came with my PC. I have a 140GB 2.5" external network drive for storage. I am very low on space for my videos and music collection.

[Guest GRRigger]

I use WD because its known to be reliable. Thats all that matters.

Oh and i use external drive too. Just to keep all data secured.  Not WD tho... some old cheapo one.

[TetraSky]

I have dedicated drives for almost everything, I feel that it's better for multitasking, watching a video while browsing the web and playing a game, no slowdown. Sure it's extra points of failure, but I'm also doing backups so it's not "that" bad, unless my backup drive suddenly fail along with all my other drives for some reason.
 
For my OS and miscellaneous softwares I'm running an Intel 520 Series 120GB, it's fast and was on sale under $100 at the time so it seemed like a no brainer. unfortunately running it in SATA 2 mode because I found out my motherboard's SATA 3 chipset (marvel) was the biggest piece of crap ever and couldn't even output over 400Mbps, not to mention the writes were all over the place compared to the stable SATA 2. This makes booting windows slightly slower than it should've been, but still way ahead of a regular HDD.
 
My dedicated "download" drive is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB ST31000528AS, it's where I put all my novels, videos and big stuff (over 1GB) that I get on the internet. It was relatively well priced but I've since come to regret my purchase as it's performance are some of the worst I've ever seen for a "modern" drive. But at least it's still usable for what I'm using it, which is the only reason why I haven't thrown it out the window yet after finding out poor performances weren't covered by their warranty.
 
My dedicated "games" drive, is pretty much self explanatory, it's the drive where I only have games on, from Steam, passing by Origin, to Desura and other legacy games installed with a disk, the drive itself is the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 6GB/S 7200RPM. Bought it before the flood in Thailand so the price was much better than it is today and the performances are great for gaming. Kind of getting on the loud side lately though.
 
Also got a dedicated drive just for my personal files/miscellaneous stuff, a Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM 32MB purchased in late 2009, I'm rarely using this drive but it's still more than half full, it contains things like yearly tax documents, ISOs for PS2 and Wii for use on an Emulator, I store my PC's driver installers on this drive, my virtual machine files for VMware and the folder for TV recording from Media Center (since I have a TV tuner card).
 
With this, I'm also using an older Kingston SSDNow V Series Gen II, that I was using before buying the Intel one as a "cache", the drive itself is supposedly about to "die" according to SSDlife, it contains things like the pagefiles, Windows TEMP folder and what not. It's not the fastest thing on earth, the benchmarks I've done on it make it to be slower than my WD 1TB drive, but due to it being an SSD, no file fragmentation and quick access to any files on the drive, make it perfect for it's new purpose in my system as a "cache" drive"

 

And finally, for backup purpose, I've got an external Western Digital 3TB MyBook drive, on which I'm doing bi-weekly backup of my OS drive and once every other week backup of my other drives, because it's "less important", games I can alway re-download them on Steam and what not, I'm not particular attached to the videos I download and I rarely touch the 640GB drive so there isn't much new stuff to backup from there. (Done with Acronis True Home Image, full drive images, not just a couple files)

 

As an extra I can say I'm also running a 1.5GB Ramdisk, why? Mostly for internet cache, because I browse the web a LOT, it would probably kill off both my SSDs within 6 months.

[Buggin]

1 single WD Blue for boot and storage planning on an upgrade for a 120Gb SSD boot and also use it for caching my HDD

[DarkFerrary250]

i have an 300 gb Hitachi with 5 years because i don't have money to buy a new one

[Pocte]

Heyo

 

I use a 120GB Intel SSD for booting and to get some games and browser more "snapy" and since i start video editing my 2 320gb Harddrives got almost full and now I think its time to Upgrade hope I can save this money and upgrade my peripherals  

Thx LinusCrew for that Giveaway

[R3CClan]

I am running a single Seagate 120GB Barracuda HDD RAID 0 for about 7 years now. The reason being is, because I just got into computers last year and my main focus lately is my processor and RAM.

[Champ]

Hello all and Good luck, i myself use a 120gb OCZ SSD for boot as i dont like to wait if its not needed, and due to my Steam Games i have a SeaGate 500GB for the storage and it cant hold of my games but i am very greatful for what i have and wo win a WD 4TB red i would be one happy gamrer and thanks for the chance to win one, Champ ~

[ManxMan]

I am running a v200 120 GB for my os and some programs and a 160GB blue drive that I don't know how old it is with my games on but its full i got the SSD because I decided i wanted to boot as fast as possible and was intending on buying a 1Tb minimum green or red drive but that hasn't happened ye t which is really annoying because i like to record gaming videos for youtube and thats hard with 30GBs of free space in your system when your using fraps

[VSyncGamer]

Awesome giveaway as always, this is getting a bit silly hahaha.

 

I run both a SSD and a HDD.

 

The SSD is a Plextor M3 Pro 128GB: Windows install + a couple of Origin/Steam games, runs like a freaking champ.

 

HDD is a WD Caviar Blue 500GB: Backup and secondary apps, etc.

 

I really like the SSD/HDD setup, but one more drive would be perfect since the Caviar Blue is at least 5 years old now IIRC.

[arekamiko]

Right now I just have a laptop with a Boot SSD 128GB and a 500GB HDD for games and other data. I also have a 1.5TB external HDD with all my stuff about filmmaking (I make videos with visual effects and stuff so everything is on this external drive). Soon I'll get a desktop and I'll probably have a Boot SSD 128GB (keeping the same I have now) with probably a 2TB internal HDD for games and data. I'm planning on getting a new external HDD, and it will probably be a WD (!!!) 3TB.

 

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[Maveron]

nice giveaway

 

i got 1 120gb ssd and 1 750gb hdd in my laptop, and there are no bigger reasons behind, since it's not my craft.

however i really like the concept, and i will get another 128gb ssd and 1-2tb hdd for my next desktop build

 

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[JuddTheStud007]

I have 280gb hard drive because i don't really use that much space in my computer.

[freakyguy88]

I have 3 WD Blue 1TB drives because I wanted fast drives, but the blacks were a bit too expensive, so I got a WD Blue. A few months later, I got another one and a few months after that, another one. No SSDs for now...