Which HDD should I get?

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Hey there Tek Syn members. My HDD is failing. Luckily, my father got his Christmas bonus and has said I could use it for a new drive and a new ODD (the current ones are being passed down to my sister.)

Now, I have a 500GB drive in my build right now, but I need more space. If I had the cash, I'd get 2 SSDs and one data HDD, but that's for another year.

Like I said, more space. I've decided I want to go with Western Digital as Seagate has bad reviews on lots of their products. Which would you guys recommend? I'd like to go with a 1 TB drive, but I hear those are a lot slower than the 500GB in terms of read/write speeds. How much slower, though?

I use the system for video editing (ECHOcore Gaming and Metalheads Anonymous) and moderate gaming. Would the speed be that much of a difference that I would notice it, or would it be very noticeable?

Also, which models would you recommend?

Thanks

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Get a boot SSD (60-124GB) and a terabyte drive? The WD Blue there looks good, its got 64MB cache, 72000RPM, and a good price.

The TB is lots of space, and the boot SSD would give a very noticeably load time deecrese (better speed).

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If you're doing a lot of video editing and you need reliability I would go with western digital's red drive. It is as close to enterprise edition drives without paying for it. Right now it is on sale at newegg for $109.99 for a 2TB. Can't beat the price and reliability. Read up on it, it's a great drive and I believe the best for what you are looking to use it for. Plus it does save you money so you can save up for that 60-90GB SSD for a boot drive/cache/games. Hope this helps.

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My budget is $100. For an HDD, ODD and shipping.

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Okay I will look around for that price range. If you can budge an extra $15-20 I would go for this drive. Mow the lawn or clean the house. I am going to replace all 8 drive bays on my NAS drives with these because of their reliability. They are built for the enterprise setting and demanding use.

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Mow the lawn or clean the house.

Why do you think I have $100 to spend?

Also, went with this HDD, an ODD and two Fans. Will go to one fan if the price goes back up on the HDD before tomorrow.

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My experience is (and there are studies you can find of 100k+ drives) that reliablility isn't correlated with price. I have ~60 WD Greends in always on systems - replacing 1-3 every year. None of those died completely, they were replaced proactively based on SMART metrics (reallocated, pending, uncorrectable sectors).

For a single disk system it's going to be random chance - no matter what you choose. Get the cheapest one you can find.

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My experience with Enterprise grade drives have been perfect. There is a difference and it is not just in the price. 

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I would be more inclined to believe it if you could quantify it. Which drives, how much time and how many of them, and how many of them did you have to replace? Having one or two of those drives doesn't really count.

I'm all for finding the best hard-drive/price (if its ever possible) - to buy those.

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I have 8 of them in my NAS drives. 5 Years old. None replaced.

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Could you show the output of smartctl -a on all 8 of them?

 

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Could we maybe get back to the topic? I haven't ordered the parts yet. Which would be a better deal, the 1TB blue on NCIX or this 1 TB Red on Newegg?

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Blue will suit your needs, Red is a bit overkill. Both are very stable reliable drives.

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Agreed, he is much closer to an SSD with that spent

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For you WD blue (or WD green, I don't think you would notice a difference).

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Going with the 1TB Blue from NCIX.