What's the best standard HDDs these days?
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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.
Hear ye, the word of the lord. And rejoice, because it has been given unto you.
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@BRRABill said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@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.
Hear ye, the word of the lord. And rejoice, because it has been given unto you.
You dare blaspheme the name of Jared!!?!?! Burn!!!
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@guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@BRRABill said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@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.
Hear ye, the word of the lord. And rejoice, because it has been given unto you.
You dare blaspheme the name of Jared!!?!?! Burn!!!
Say what you want, but th time you spent looking for drives, and then purchasing a drive that is probably double the cost of what you could have gotten, means money wasted.
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This would be my preference to replace the cheap one in my laptop. Perhaps the 500 GB version instead because its more affordable.
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@JaredBusch said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@BRRABill said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:
@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.
Hear ye, the word of the lord. And rejoice, because it has been given unto you.
You dare blaspheme the name of Jared!!?!?! Burn!!!
Say what you want, but th time you spent looking for drives, and then purchasing a drive that is probably double the cost of what you could have gotten, means money wasted.
Don't sweat it. I did one Google search, posted a thread on here, then looked at Amazon's popular stuff.
10 minute decision.
