What drive should I get?

[Bluethulhu]

I currently have a 256GB 840 Pro for a boot drive and 2x 1TB WD Blacks in RAID 0 for storage. One of the Blacks just failed, and I lost most of my data. I'm willing to get a new, single drive. I think that the extra speed isn't worth being more prone to failure for my system. I've heard some new drives are coming out from both WD and Seagate, so I'm curious as to what to get, otherwise I would just get another WD Black. I'm guessing anywhere between 2TB and 4TB in storage should be sufficient. My music collection is completely lossless, I use a lot of virtual machines, and my Steam/Origin library is about 1TB. I'm not going to be backing up to this drive, I have a 1TB external drive for that.

[TheSLSAMG]

Get a 4TB Seagate Barracuda.

[EYCEthebest003]

Keep in mind that WD blacks have a 5 year warranty.  You might still be able to get a new drive.  For redundancy, you could always make a RAID 1 array.

[FatalWaffles]

Western Digital and Seagate both have a few 4TB drives on the market. You could also check to see if your drive was still under warranty and could be replaced to hold you over for now.

[Bluethulhu]

Get a 4TB Seagate Barracuda.

How is the speed on that as compared to the 7200RPM 3TB model?

[TheSLSAMG]

How is the speed on that as compared to the 7200RPM 3TB model?

Depends. If you go with a 7200RPM Barracuda XT, then http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_4tb_barracuda_xt_first_thoughts_review

 

If you go for the 5900RPM Desktop Drive, then http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_desktop_hdd15_review_st4000dm000

[_ASSASSIN_]

you can always look into reds if you have an issue with them not lasting long, just looking into both WD or Seagates nas-grade drives

[Popadookie]

2TB Seagate SSHD, for the speed.

[James_AJ]

3TB Barracuda for the 1TB platters...

[wpirobotbuilder]

I currently have a 256GB 840 Pro for a boot drive and 2x 1TB WD Blacks in RAID 0 for storage. One of the Blacks just failed, and I lost most of my data. I'm willing to get a new, single drive. I think that the extra speed isn't worth being more prone to failure for my system. I've heard some new drives are coming out from both WD and Seagate, so I'm curious as to what to get, otherwise I would just get another WD Black. I'm guessing anywhere between 2TB and 4TB in storage should be sufficient. My music collection is completely lossless, I use a lot of virtual machines, and my Steam/Origin library is about 1TB. I'm not going to be backing up to this drive, I have a 1TB external drive for that.

If your virtual machines are all running at once on your hard drive, then you want a drive that performs well in random operations. Every single active VM will hit your hard drive like an operating system would, not to mention other stuff being done on it.

 

Your music/games don't need a fast hard drive.

 

I recommend a two-drive setup:

 

• A small drive that performs well in random operations for your VMs, like the WD Velociraptor (get whatever size you need).
• The cheapest drive for the storage you need (music, games, etc). Seagate Desktops/WD Greens are good at this.

[ultimatemythbuster]

I currently have a 256GB 840 Pro for a boot drive and 2x 1TB WD Blacks in RAID 0 for storage. One of the Blacks just failed, and I lost most of my data. I'm willing to get a new, single drive. I think that the extra speed isn't worth being more prone to failure for my system. I've heard some new drives are coming out from both WD and Seagate, so I'm curious as to what to get, otherwise I would just get another WD Black. I'm guessing anywhere between 2TB and 4TB in storage should be sufficient. My music collection is completely lossless, I use a lot of virtual machines, and my Steam/Origin library is about 1TB. I'm not going to be backing up to this drive, I have a 1TB external drive for that.

Even with running a RAID 0, you wouldn't have lost anything if you had a backup.  I hope you have learned a lesson.  Get two new drives and have one of them be a backup.