WD Black vs. Seagate Barracuda

[The_Stealthy_Shadow]

Hi, I'm trying to build a PC for my uncle and I can't decide on which HDD line to use for his secondary drive. This petition would help me decide...

[Mark77]

Why not add 3rd and 4th options -- HGST and Toshiba?

 

I'd personally rather have those two brands, over most of what WDC and Seagate produce. 

[ThinkWithPortals]

8 minutes ago, The_Stealthy_Shadow said:

Hi, I'm trying to build a PC for my uncle and I can't decide on which HDD line to use for his secondary drive. This petition would help me decide...

As a WD Black owner, I'd say this: Get the Barracuda unless you really, really need the speed. The Black, while really fast, is pretty expensive for it's capacity and is by no means quiet.

[The_Stealthy_Shadow]

1 minute ago, Mark77 said:

Why not add 3rd and 4th options -- HGST and Toshiba?

 

I'd personally rather have those two brands, over most of what WDC and Seagate produce. 

My uncle isn't a big fan out of those brands, that's why I narrowed it down...

[Mark77]

6 minutes ago, The_Stealthy_Shadow said:

My uncle isn't a big fan out of those brands, that's why I narrowed it down...

Well they've been producing better quality drives for the better part of the past 5-7 years than most of the competition.  So your uncle's loss then.  I'd grin and bear and take the WD drive then (yuck!). 

[Enderman]

22 minutes ago, Mark77 said:

Well they've been producing better quality drives for the better part of the past 5-7 years than most of the competition.  So your uncle's loss then.  I'd grin and bear and take the WD drive then (yuck!). 

HGST is from WD

and toshiba is far from good

[Rheinwasser]

so what about a wd green or blue for a secondary?

i doubt the additional performance justifies the price and loudness of a wd black/barracuda 7200rpm

[Mark77]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

HGST is from WD

and toshiba is far from good

 

The 3.5" Toshiba products are produced in the same factories as HGST.  And HGST mostly operates separately from WD administratively and technically.  But even some of WD's latest shipping products are basically HGST designs.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, Mark77 said:

 

The 3.5" Toshiba products are produced in the same factories as HGST.  And HGST mostly operates separately from WD administratively and technically.  But even some of WD's latest shipping products are basically HGST designs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST

[Shoob]

Seagate is the way to go, unless you need the 5 year warranty. The only models to avoid are the 1.5 and 3TB ones.

 

2 minutes ago, Rheinwasser said:

i doubt the additional performance justifies the price and loudness of a wd black/barracuda 7200rpm

WD Black may be loud, but the current Seagate Barracuda drives are extremely quiet.

[The_Stealthy_Shadow]

6 minutes ago, Rheinwasser said:

so what about a wd green or blue for a secondary?

i doubt the additional performance justifies the price and loudness of a wd black/barracuda 7200rpm

 

If the WD Blue 2TB was just 7200 RPM, I would of used it in a heartbeat. My uncle stores very large files on the HDD, so he needs 2TB. 5400 RPM, is considered a laptop HDD speed, which are known to be slow...

[Rheinwasser]

1 hour ago, The_Stealthy_Shadow said:

 

If the WD Blue 2TB was just 7200 RPM, I would of used it in a heartbeat. My uncle stores very large files on the HDD, so he needs 2TB. 5400 RPM, is considered a laptop HDD speed, which are known to be slow...

slow is relative. it really depends on what he is doing.

watching movies or doing backups is absolutely fine with 5400rpm.

 

1 hour ago, Pandalf said:

Seagate is the way to go, unless you need the 5 year warranty. The only models to avoid are the 1.5 and 3TB ones.

 

WD Black may be loud, but the current Seagate Barracuda drives are extremely quiet.

still louder than a 5400rpm drive.

[Captain_WD]

On 24.04.2016 г. at 10:22 PM, The_Stealthy_Shadow said:

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Hi

 

What will be your primary drive and the purpose of the build? Generally, there no such thing as "known to be slow". 5,400 rpm HDDs are fast enough for most general usage types such as gaming, Server, RAID, secondary media storage, movie/photo/music database, backups and general secondary data storage, especially if you have a fast (SSD for example) main storage for the OS and the most demanding applications. WD Blue should be a pretty good choice for secondary storage. The 2TB version works with speeds of around 147MB/s which are just 3MB/s less than the 1TB 7,200 rpm version and would result in no real-world performance difference besides less heat and noise output. You can check more details in the drive's spec sheet. 

 

On the topic, WD Black is a good performance drive with a long warranty and great performance during demanding, and extensive workloads as well as multitasking. It should be a good choice if you are doing something rather heavy with it.

 

Captain_WD.