Which Brand HDD?

[snakenobi]

I am buying 1tb and 2tb storage

Should be 7200rpm and SATA 3.0


1)Which brand?

2)What in-brand series? - like cavier blue,green,black

3)What all options are there? - 1TB,1.5tb.2tb.3tb,etc

4)Reliability

[great_big_abyss]

Cheapest 1TB+ seem to be the WD Caviar Greens. They're also the slowest drives, though. I have both a 1TB and a 2TB in my gaming system. When opening a folder, if the drive has been idle for a while, it takes a few seconds to actually respond and compile the list of files. Also, opening media files takes a few seconds. If you can live with this, then fair enough. Go for the Greens. If not, you might want to consider something a little faster like a Blue, or a Seagate Barracuda.

Other advantages for the Greens are that they consume less power, and I think that they're quieter than other drives. I have a SSD as my main boot drive, with a Caviar Black as my secondary install drive. The Caviar Greens hold all my media. when accessing data, I cannot hear any HDD noise at all...

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by snakenobi

I am buying 1tb and 2tb storage

Should be 7200rpm and SATA 3.0


1)Which brand?

2)What in-brand series? - like cavier blue,green,black

3)What all options are there? - 1TB,1.5tb.2tb.3tb,etc

4)Reliability

For storage just get WD Green drives. Speed isn't needed just reliability but its a hard drive and none are reliable.