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rinaldo00

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I am already booting and gaming from a Samsung SSD, but now I want a TON of JUST storage space to save gameplay videos. What do you suggest?

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Any major manufacturer. I usually roll Seagate or Western Digital. Just pick your size and go, if you're just storing videos, probably don't need anything super fast, although I typically still enjoy 7200rpm drives.
 
I would probably go for one of the Western Digital Black drives. They are reliable, have 64mb cache and 7200rpm. I believe they also come in sizes up to 4TB each as well. Great for use as secondary storage drives.
 
I went to pcpartpicker.com and looked at ONLY 4TB HDs. I then sorted by price/GB and these were the best deals

Seagate ST4000DM000 5900RPM 4TB 64MB $159.99
Seagate STBD4000400 5900RPM 4TB 64MB $177.94
Seagate ST4000VM000 5900RPM 4TB 64MB $199.99
Western Digital WD40EFRX Red 5900RPM 4TB 64MB $199.99
Hitachi H3IK40003272SP 7200RPM 4TB 64MB 0.055 $214.99
Western Digital WD4000F9YZ WD SE 7200RPM 4TB 64MB $259.98
Western Digital WD4001FAEX WD Black 7200RPM 4TB 64MB $264.98

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#s=4000000&sort=a6

Any of these are fine, correct?
 
Yeah, they are all fine.

I use these in my home NAS without issue: Seagate ST4000DM000 5900RPM 4TB 64MB $159.99
 
What are you after? Reliability or best bang for the buck? If you want reliability it will cost you in the form of an enterprise drive, if you want best bang for your buck, then any seagate drive will do. Will you be backing this data up? Do you care if you lose it?
 
I'm personally a fan of the Western Digital Red 3TB drives.

A 4TB variant just launched as well, but it's a bit noisy for my taste.
 
ashman said:
What are you after? Reliability or best bang for the buck? If you want reliability it will cost you in the form of an enterprise drive, if you want best bang for your buck, then any seagate drive will do. Will you be backing this data up? Do you care if you lose it?
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Basically bang per buck and no, the data is not crucial.
 
For pure storage, go with WD Green or Red drives; Green should be cheaper and easier to find.
 
Unknown-One said:
I'm personally a fan of the Western Digital Red 3TB drives.
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I just picked up one of these last week and so far I really like it, it runs cool and quiet and it's actually faster in sequential performance than my old 1TB caviar black(FALS, 32MB buffer). If I really cared about reliability I would have bought an SE or constellation drive but at $125 shipped it was about as cheap as a low end 7200rpm drive and gives me a little more peace of mind than one of those would.
 
ashman said:
What are you after? Reliability or best bang for the buck? If you want reliability it will cost you in the form of an enterprise drive, if you want best bang for your buck, then any seagate drive will do. Will you be backing this data up? Do you care if you lose it?
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I looked those up and found a Seagate NAS HDD for $189 and a 3 TB Seagate Enterprise Value HDD for $192 so they are not too much more. I will consider them.
 
I have switched between Seagate and WD for many years, in the end (at least for me) it comes to warranty period; long is better and in my W. Home Server I don't see any real difference in any of the drives for performance.
 
I assume that there is nothing wrong with using a NAS drive as my secondary storage drive, but I want to check. This drive is $50 off

Seagate ST4000VN000 4TB 64MB SATA 6GB/S 3.5in Internal NAS Hard Drive $190

Should be fine, correct?
 
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