3TB HDD recommendations?

[sazrocks]

Most of the reasonably priced drives (like this one) seem to have horror stories in the reviews; what 3TB drives are actually safe and don't cost an arm and a leg?

 

EDIT: It needs to be 7200RPM for my uses.

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Most of the reasonably priced drives (like this one) seem to have horror stories in the reviews; what 3TB drives are actually safe and don't cost an arm and a leg?

Well what do you need to store on it? 4TB external hard drives can be had for around $100.

[Guest The Viking]

Toshiba's N300 for NAS or X300 for high performance.

 

Though you probably aren't interested in toshiba, so I don't know.

[FloRolf]

All of them have horror stories. If you store important data you HAVE to have a backup on another independent drive. Other than that the likes of WD and Seagate usually make good drives. 

[sazrocks]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Well what do you need to store on it? 4TB external hard drives can be had for around $100.

Sorry, I should have specified. I want to put some games on it so 7200RPM is a must. Will update OP.

[sazrocks]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

All of them have horror stories. If you store important data you HAVE to have a backup on another independent drive. Other than that the likes of WD and Seagate usually make good drives. 

Horror stories in the sense that the drive came in a paper bag, was dated 2013, and died within 4 days. Surely there are drives that don't have large numbers of these problems?

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Sorry, I should have specified. I want to put some games on it so 7200RPM is a must. Will update OP.

Might be worth just getting a 2TB hybrid drive then, will improve loading times.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/NpBrxr/seagate-firecuda-2tb-35-7200rpm-hybrid-internal-hard-drive-st2000dx002

 

Dunno why you'd want to keep 3TBs of games on you at all times...

[Catsrules]

There are some white label drives on ebay you can look for. I have have had good experience with.

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Horror stories in the sense that the drive came in a paper bag, was dated 2013, and died within 4 days. Surely there are drives that don't have large numbers of these problems?

well the model linked was a old drive and probably used. Get a new drive.

[Catsrules]

5 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Dunno why you'd want to keep 3TBs of games on you at all times...

Maybe OP has slow internet connection, who wants to wait hours and hours for a game to download and install. Also some people have ridiculously limited internet connections that won't allow them to download multiple games a month.

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

Maybe OP has slow internet connection, who wants to wait hours and hours for a game to download and install. Also some people have ridiculously limited internet connections that won't allow them to download multiple games a month.

But 3 TBs?

Even 1TB holds a ton of modern games.

I'd rather have 2TBs of Hybrid Storage rather than 3TBs of traditional storage.

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

But 3 TBs?

Even 1TB holds a ton of modern games.

I'd rather have 2TBs of Hybrid Storage rather than 3TBs of traditional storage.

or diy hybrid drive with a cheap ssd and storage spaces tiering.

[Catsrules]

38 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

or diy hybrid drive with a cheap ssd and storage spaces tiering.

This might be a question for a new topic but how big of an SSD should you use? Does the cache get cleared when you reboot?

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

This might be a question for a new topic but how big of an SSD should you use? Does the cache get cleared when you reboot?

id go 250 as there pretty cheap and have a good value. Storage spaces is tiered storage and isn't deleted on reboot.

[Streetguru]

10 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

This might be a question for a new topic but how big of an SSD should you use? Does the cache get cleared when you reboot?

If that was the goal you'd probably want X470 so you can get the software for free. Otherwise not sure what software you would use to do it.

And it would be $60 + 240GB SSD or around $80 most likely.
 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

If that was the goal you'd probably want X470 so you can get the software for free. Otherwise not sure what software you would use to do it.

windows 8+ has storage spaces built in that allows tiered storage.

 

 

[Streetguru]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

windows 8+ has storage spaces built in that allows tiered storage.

 

 

I'm going to bet that's maybe not the best solution

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

I'm going to bet that's maybe not the best solution

how? Its built into the system, work well. It does have the problems of any caching or tiering solution, but works well and is stable.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

how? Its built into the system, work well. It does have the problems of any caching or tiering solution, but works well and is stable.

Just never heard of it, seems like no one uses it.
 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Just never heard of it, seems like no one uses it.
 

 

Well its a big thing for the enterprise, but most consumers don't have a lot of drives they want to cache and just like having one ssd and one hdd. Its also pretty hidden.

[Catsrules]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Just never heard of it, seems like no one uses it.
 

 

 

It is used more for the server environments not really for desktop use. I actually didn't know until just now that it was supported on normal Windows +8. I always thought it was only for Windows server.

 

I will have to take a look, I have a SSD laying around and my current setup is sort of a manual caching solution. I have an SSD and a hard drive I will just manually copy the game I am currently playing over to the SSD. And when run out of space on the SSD I move the games I play less often back to the hard drive.

[Catsrules]

25 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

id go 250 as there pretty cheap and have a good value. Storage spaces is tiered storage and isn't deleted on reboot.

Cool, I have an 256GB laying around here somewhere and maybe an old 1TB drive. I will have to give I a shot and compare performance.

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

Cool, I have an 256GB laying around here somewhere and maybe an old 1TB drive. I will have to give I a shot and compare performance.

Looks like you can try the Enmotus stuff for free

http://www.enmotus.com/products