What's the best standard HDDs these days?
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@guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
If I wanted to get a 2tb or higher normal 3.5 SATA drive, who has the best, fastest stuff right now?
Anyone that's cheap. I've no had a poor experience with any traditional HDD vendor.
I will say that I won't be purchasing spinning rust for personal use at any point in the future.
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I stay away from Toshiba Desktop Drives. I have had bad luck with them. I like WD , HGST or Seagate.
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I think the 18TB SSD is pretty regular, and awesome.
I have 4 of those in OBR10 on my desktop.
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Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.
I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.
Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.
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@guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.
I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.
Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.
Mushkin has a drive on sale today. 1TB for $250. Really not that far fetched.
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I'm not aware of anyone making 10K SATA 2TB drives.
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@guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.
I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.
Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.
What's the use for it? I would invest more $$$ for performance. 850 Evo 1TB is about $340 atm. Does it has to be 3.5mm?
I have 4x 1tb WD Blue in Raid 5 setup in my secondary computer. Not the best, but it is cheap. I use it for storing movies and such. Still SSD is a lot better. -
Of course SSD is better, but it's a 5 year old basic PC that will likely be replaced within the year. Current 1TB drive has been reporting a zillion bad blocks lately.
It's got about 470GB used space so I did contemplate putting a 500GB SSD in there but just didn't want free space that tight. They copy a lot of pictures and video recordings on there.Anyway it's settled. Yay for Amazon Prime it will be delivered tomorrow.
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@guyinpv What did you go with?
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5 year old PC and you're asking for the fastest option? LOL Anything with enough storage at a price you're happy to pay should be fine.
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@stess said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.
I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.
Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.
I have 4x 1tb WD Blue in Raid 5 setup in my secondary computer. Not the best, but it is
cheapmathematically doomed to fail.FTFY
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@Dashrender said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
5 year old PC and you're asking for the fastest option? LOL Anything with enough storage at a price you're happy to pay should be fine.
Even five years ago, I was all SSD.
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@scottalanmiller said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@Dashrender said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
5 year old PC and you're asking for the fastest option? LOL Anything with enough storage at a price you're happy to pay should be fine.
Even five years ago, I was all SSD.
You're also made of money
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@DustinB3403 said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
I think the 18TB SSD is pretty regular, and awesome.
I have 4 of those in OBR10 on my desktop.
18TB? Are you from the future?
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I have a 1TB WD Blue SSD at work. It was $279 (even from CDW)
WD Blue 1TB Internal SSD Solid State Drive - SATA 6Gb/s 2.5 Inch - WDS100T1B0A https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXPENRR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_w--lzb5WE8F0T
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@stacksofplates said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@DustinB3403 said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
I think the 18TB SSD is pretty regular, and awesome.
I have 4 of those in OBR10 on my desktop.
18TB? Are you from the future?
No but I did get the storage amount wrong, 16TB.
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Firecuda. It has an extra 8GB SSD cache with smartypants stuff built in.
Like I said, getting a 1TB SSD for whatever, $400, versus a 2TB Firecuda for $100 was just the better deal. It's an i5 3Ghz with 8GB so not horrible as just an office PC.
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8GB is a small cache, but will definitely make a difference. Depends heavily on workload.
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This entire discussion was stupid. There is never need to worry about a "best drive" for 99% of users. You buy what ever is cheap and available. Even more so because you have clearly stated this is a short term solution.
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@JaredBusch said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
This entire discussion was stupid. There is never need to worry about a "best drive" for 99% of users. You buy what ever is cheap and available. Even more so because you have clearly stated this is a short term solution.
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