Buying a new HDD, is this good?

[Lazn_Work]

Green drives are not built for speed, but rather for low power.

If you want fast, look elsewhere. (WD Blacks are good)

 

[Archmage]

WD Black 1TB is fast
Samsung F3 1TB is fast
WD Blue series is also fast (similar + almost as good as Black)

I have the Samsung F3 1TB, and it's faster than my Western Digital "Blue" AAKS series 640GB drives in every way (even random read/write of small file sizes). My bro has the WD black, and it's about on-par with the F3, however the F3 has faster large-file sequential read/write.

Newegg has the F3 for about $80 right now. I got it when they had it for $75.

 

[DD_nVidia]

Samsung F3 1TB beats everything just now, technically should be more reliable since it only has 2 platters and less moving parts if all else is equal...

Get the Samsung F3 1TB either way.