What type of HDD is good for me?

[JGalsky]

Hello! I'm building my first PC in a bit and I wanted to see what type of storage I need, besides an SSD.  I do some gaming, very light gaming, web browsing, lots of school work, and some photo editing.  I have a pair of 2tb WD Red, which are NAS drives (Network-attached Storage) that came with a home cloud storage system that we do not use anymore.  It's about 2 months old, so very new drives.  Do you recomend me to get a single 4tb HSTG drive, which are the lowest failure rate in mechanical drives?  Or, should i just use the pair of NAS drives is RAID 1? P.s. I do constant backups so, I don't need a RAID 1.

 

 

 

[porina]

I'd use the existing disks unless you need more space. If you're good on making backups elsewhere just use them as single drives. Doesn't sound like you'd benefit from raid 0 or 1 so keep it simple. I wouldn't worry too much about failure rates too much. Unless you have a large number of them to average out, it will be more down to luck or abuse than wear and tear.

[thatguyyouknow75]

Nas drives are engineered to be always running. I'd suggest picking up some WD blues. They're tried and true, and there isn't a huge difference between them and the greens and blacks

[Oshino Shinobu]

If you have the Red drives just sitting around, you may as well use them. If you're backing up regularly, then you could just have them as individual drives in the system, or put them in JBOD to combine their capacity without the issues of complete loss of data redundancy of RAID 0. 

 

If you have another use for the Reds (in a NAS, or as backups), then I'd say just get a single 4TB Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue for desktop use. 

[littlelegsone]

use the reds. you don't really even need to raid them just use them as separate disks

[JGalsky]

Thanks guys!