Western Digital Red 3 TB or Seagate Barracuda 3 TB

Hardware HDD's & SSD's
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I can't really deside which one to get so I thought I would get your guys opinions on this. 

 

Seagate Barracuda:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM001/dp/B005T3GRLY/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pdT1_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=3S71CM1TIOAT9&coliid=I3JW1IZIBBYC2U

 

WD Red:

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Red-Hard-Drive/dp/B008JJLW4M/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

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what are you using the drive for?

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WD Red-series is a combination of WDs enterprise (RE4) drives, and Caviar-series value. Mainly designed for NAS builds (über RAID config 'n stuff), but can also be used as normal harddrive.

Seagate Barracuda is just a cheaper competitor to the WD Black-series.

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Hard drives are one of (if not THE) most fragile component in my PC. In that regard, I would go for the Western Digital Red for the extended warranty and for the fact that it is rated to work 24/7 in NAS enclosures.

However, if that is going to be the only storage drive in your computer, the Barracuda is a little faster with its 7200rpm. So... yeah, it depends on what you plan on using it for.

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Going for storage for design work/videos and gaming primarly, also for group sharing on home network.

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then get a caviar black, it's sturdier than a blue, and faster than a red. the red only spins at 5400 rpm, wheras the blue and black are both 7200 rpm

edit: never mind, WD doesn't make a 3tb black. umm, i'll take a look at the reliability specs of the barracuda

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Red drives aren't going to be as fast as Black drives, because they're made more for stability and to be run in RAID configurations. Get a Black drive instead. They're going to be the fastest hard drives you can get right now unless you want to blow the money on a Velociraptor which isn't all that much faster anyway.

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blacks max out at 2 tb i think, but you really shouldn't need more than that

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792