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My PC has a 480gb SSD and it is almost full so I was wondering what hard drive I should get for extra storage.

CPU: i9-9900k
Motherboard: MSI Carbon Pro AC
Memory: GSkill Trident Z Royal Silver 32gb
Storage: SanDisk - Ultra II 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Storage: Western Digital - Blue 4TB 3.5" 5400RPM Hard Drive
Video Card: ASUS Strix GTX 1050ti 4GB
Case: Corsair - Vengeance C70 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case 
 

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1TB WD Blue

Computer Case: NZXT S340 || CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 || Cooler: CM Hyper212 Evo || MoBo: MSI B350 Mortar || RAM Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3200MHz || PSU: Corsair CX600 || SSD: HyperX Fury 120GB & 240GB || HDD: WD Blue 1TB + 1TB 2.5'' backup drive || GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB

Laptop 1 HP x360 13-u113nl

Laptop 2 Lenovo z50-75 with AMD FX-7500 || OS: Windows 10 / Ubuntu 17.04

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depends what you will be using the new drive for really, just dropping pictures on to or videos or would it be more to run games or programs from, also how much do you have to spend

CPU:                Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor

Graphics:         Inno3D GeForce GTX 980Ti Hybrid Black Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-E

RAM:              Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz

Case:                Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Mid Tower Case - Black (3x 140mm Phantek fans)
MOBO:            Asus Maximus VIII Hero Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard

Boot SSD:        Samsung 250GB 840 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA
Game SSD:      Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive

CPU Cooling:  Overclockers UK & SilverStone - 120mm FQ121WC Watercooling Radiator Fan x 2
                       Asetek 240mm 570LX

PSU:               Corsair 750M Semi-Modular 80 Plus Gold rated

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Monitor 2:       Samsung 24" S24C300

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It depends. I would personally say go for a WD Red. The performance is pretty good overall. If you need more speed, a WD Black. But yeah, in my own testing, the Red is pretty fast in comparison to the 7200 RPM drive for sequential data anyway (160MB/s for the red vs 180MB/s for the WD RE SAS drive (7200 RPM enterprise drive), both 4TB.

 

Make sure you stress test the drive using whatever utility from the manufacturer (Like for WD, it's WD lifeguard; Seatools for Seagate) and scan the whole drive with it to make sure you don't have a DOA drive.

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