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recommend me a HDD please?

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Dim8400

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What is the best or at least best bang for $150 as far as a HDD goes. Friend needs it for storage, he has a SSD for his OS. His budget is around $150 and he is requesting a min of 2tb for space. His SSD is 120GB and running out fast. I am not sure which HDD are at the top recently as far as performance goes. He just received his PC, what is the best performing and reliable option for ~150 max at Best Buy? I had posted this on another section but although I appreciate the input i did receive I didn't get much help, as I was told any HDD would do...Correct me if I am wrong but I thought not all HDD were created equal. You have differences in brand and performance.
Appreciate all the help! Thanks! :)
Here is one option...but I am not sure if green drives are good as far as performance goes http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...1218064150518&skuId=9234465&fb_source=message.
Has Seagate Barracuda drives improved? I ask because I had purchased a 500GBBarracuda several years ago at least 4yrs ago actually and I remember at that time after picking up the drive on sale reading that it was a problematic drive and often bricked. I retired that PC before putting that drive through its paces so I never found out (fortunately).
 
i know you requested 2 tb, however
this 1tb WD Black is the best drive you are going to get from Best Buy at that price range
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...rive/9958909.p?id=1218201215581&skuId=9958909
WD's blacks are the fastest most reliable drives avalible on the market that are not Velociraptors or SSD's
The WD Greens are much lower quality drives and have a fairly bad track record comparitivly.
If performance is not a concern the seagate 2tb would also IMO just from experiance in recent years yield you better results reliability wise.

however i will say if he is only running off a 120gig SSD and that is his ONLY drive 1TB is going to be PLENTY for him for quite some time unless he becomes a media downloading fiend. in which case no single hard drive is going to be enough :-p
 
Dim8400 said:
What is the best or at least best bang for $150 as far as a HDD goes. Friend needs it for storage, he has a SSD for his OS. His budget is around $150 and he is requesting a min of 2tb for space. His SSD is 120GB and running out fast. I am not sure which HDD are at the top recently as far as performance goes. He just received his PC, what is the best performing and reliable option for ~150 max at Best Buy? I had posted this on another section but although I appreciate the input i did receive I didn't get much help, as I was told any HDD would do...Correct me if I am wrong but I thought not all HDD were created equal. You have differences in brand and performance.
Appreciate all the help! Thanks! :)
Here is one option...but I am not sure if green drives are good as far as performance goes http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...1218064150518&skuId=9234465&fb_source=message.
Has Seagate Barracuda drives improved? I ask because I had purchased a 500GBBarracuda several years ago at least 4yrs ago actually and I remember at that time after picking up the drive on sale reading that it was a problematic drive and often bricked. I retired that PC before putting that drive through its paces so I never found out (fortunately).
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Here is the problem with Best Buy: None of the 2TB drives that sell for less than $150 there are fast enough for an OS disk. In fact, both of them are very slow compared to the true 7200 RPM hard drives, especially in random access speed. This is because the WD Green spins at only 5400 RPM, while the outgoing (to be discontinued) Seagate Barracuda Green spins at 5900 RPM. The only two internal hard drives of 2TB or greater capacity that spin at a true 7200 RPM that are actually stocked at Best Buy both cost well over $150.
 
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate...b/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive&cp=1&lp=1 - Seagate Barracuda drive on best buy, although I do not trust these, but I don't know if these have improved. He is a downloading fiend apparently and is requesting at least 2TB of space. @E4g1e his SSD contains his OS. He just needs it for storage. I figured might as well go for the best 150 can provide at best buy even if it is slower than a true 7200rpm drive...as long as it is adequate enough in both reliability and speed (decent in this case) for a storage drive. Thank you for the recommendation Vapor1000 but he was pretty much set on 2TB minimum.
 
buy one of these:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...lack/1251309.p?id=1218242900307&skuId=1251309

yeah its external... but then you crack it open and apparently there's a Western Digital Caviar Black inside: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136456
that's a 7200rpm drive by Western Digital... fits the bill.

just make sure you don't break the housing in case you need to send it back or something.

but that's just one reviewers word that there's actually a caviar black inside
worst case is you get some dinky 5400rpm green drive
5400rpm drives aren't terribly slow, they just have very high latency.
-so for storage it will be fine.
 
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