which HDD to get for Raid?

[cheiften98]

i currently have a 1tb drive and 2 120gb ssd's in my pc. with an external 2tb hdd.
im going to use my old mobo, cpu and gpu to build my dad a pc. i was going to take 1 of the ssd's out for the new pc and then get 2 2tb hdd's for me for raid. what hdd's are good to get but are cheap?

was thinking just WD blue but i dont know if there is anything better out there.

 

thanks

[ARikozuM]

You can use the WD Blue, but there's a better offering with the BarraCuda.

https://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=Homepage_SS-_-P3_22-179-009-_-05032018&Index=3

[cheiften98]

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

You can use the WD Blue, but there's a better offering with the BarraCuda.

https://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=Homepage_SS-_-P3_22-179-009-_-05032018&Index=3

what about 2 of theses? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Barracuda-internal-drive-silver/dp/B01ICLGJF8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525398545&sr=8-1&keywords=2tb+hdd
i kinda wanted to do raid for mass storage as it would be faster and fun

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, cheiften98 said:

what about 2 of theses? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Barracuda-internal-drive-silver/dp/B01ICLGJF8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525398545&sr=8-1&keywords=2tb+hdd
i kinda wanted to do raid for mass storage as it would be faster and fun

Having a single failure point is better than two. Size over quantity. If you're going for smaller disks, go RAID 5 (three disks) or 6 (four disks).

[cheiften98]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Having a single failure point is better than two. Size over quantity. If you're going for smaller disks, go RAID 5 (three disks) or 6 (four disks).

hmm thing is i wanted a fast drive as well for games like GTA which take ages to load but dont have enough room on my ssd's 

is 1 bigger hardrive worth it over the extra speed then?

[ARikozuM]

Most of the loading in GTA is network

[cheiften98]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Most of the loading in GTA is network

loading into single player takes around 8mins, i had it on an ssd at one point and it was much faster, but its like 80gb.

[ARikozuM]

5 minutes ago, cheiften98 said:

loading into single player takes around 8mins, i had it on an ssd at one point and it was much faster, but its like 80gb.

Single-player is terribly long to load, but you aren't going to fix multi-player. 

[cheiften98]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Single-player is terribly long to load, but you aren't going to fix multi-player. 

loading in and out of games modes it is  my friend has it on an ssd. its not just for gta anyway. i have like 600 games and would like them all installed but on mass storage.