best 2tb hdd for gaming?

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[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Messaggio originale di Bad 💀 Motha:

Messaggio originale di Rumpelcrutchskin:

Have the 2TB with green label in my rig for almost a year now, no complaints so far, quiet and good speed for games.

Well I guess so, it's not even aged yet.

Overall I prefer to look at failure rates. Having a user with a few drives over the course of many years doesn't mean much. Plus Seagates cheap drives have crappy warranty.

Would you buy a vehicle from a brand that is known to have had many faults and issues in recent year?

I didnt say it`s the best in the world but sometimes people simply cant afford almost three times more expensive WD Gold. Still decent budget option, beats stuff like Toshibas that are loud and slower.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well I doubt OP wants to settle for lesser space just to go ssd.

I find it worth it though. Games also download and install way faster too. Most hdd could never keep up with a user who has 100+ maps

I noticed this greatly when I went from using 100mbps to 500mbps isp

A resonably priced hdd with a few TB worth of space is better suited for downloads, general file storage, videos, pictures, etc.

OS, apps and games on SSDs helps so much, everything stays fluid.

If a 2tb ssd is too much, a 1tb ssd should do you ok and is not very expensive.

500gb ssd for os and apps, maybe a couple games, 1tb ssd for games, and a 2+TB hdd is the way I'd try and go as a bare minimum on systems that allow more then two inteneral drives. Even some laptops now offer room for more then 2 drives thanks to multiple m2 slots


But overall when I buy any drive, I'm looking to hopefully use it for 5+ years on pretty much a daily basis.

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3TB 7200rpm Seagate/Toshiba fair well but 2TB I really don't believe there is a best for gaming you need to boost up to the 3TB 7200rpm range, the wd 6 TB black is really good but way out of budget if you have a $70-$100 cap..

[SeriousCCIE]

I was going to buy WD golds to replace some Re3s I had that turned 10 years old this past december, but ended up purchasing HGST "Ultrastar" drives instead. I was quite pleased with the longevity of the WD Re3s; I only replaced them out of the fear of failure than any monitoring condition suggesting their time was up. I imagined all the drives would just burst into flames at the same time, and I couldn't shake the thought that once one went, others would, too -- so I began my search for replacements.

I also considered the blacks, but long ago they removed the TLER for any usage in a RAID topology greater than RAID 1, so I opted not to. But the WD Blacks are good drives as it is.

It boiled down to costs--at least after meeting my other criteria. The WD Golds were my original desire for replacements, and I kept an eye on their costs for a very long time before I made a decision to purchase the replacement drives, but found the HGST Ultrastars on sale one day for much less almost immediately after I decided to go ahead and get the Golds.

On paper, they performed quite similarly, and while the Golds are better by themselves, the HGST Ultrastars are drawing less power than the specifications listed; I read the Golds actually take a little more. I am not sure as to why that is, but I can say I appreciate the more efficient drives; I've measured the difference in both heat and power draw, and the differences are noticable--perhaps not so much if just using one of them. You also might not care too much about that, too, so don't let my powerful persuasive speech about power persuade you.

The (HGST) drives themselves reached over 160MB/s when I tested them individually, which, when taking into context that they'll never be SSD or NVMe drives, is actually really good to see on average.

Going with a WD Black or other "professional/enterprise" type of drive will always cost more, but consider that what I replaced from WD lasted 10 years -- and still had time to go if I only let it--then I think that the options discussed here are all good bets from WD, if you are willing to spend a little more to get them. (The HGST Ultrastars are also 'enterprise' drives with an identical warranty, so I expect them to last at least that long--anything over the warranty is a bonus).

I'm editing this to state that I actually have an SSD caching these drives, and some of my steam library is on them. So far, so good. I use the Intel "IRST" functionality to do the caching, and the intel "RST" driver handles the RAID aspect.

[tacoshy]

I got a 10TB WD Gold which hit 340MB/s seq. read.

For long time the WD Gold where as cheap (partwise cheaper) then WD Black while offerign mroe cache, beign faster, better support and warranty, ran mroe silently and having all the advantages of not being consumer drives but drives for data centers. It was surprising that you could get them so much cheaper.

However HGST as daugther company of WD sells the WD Gold as Ultestar. effectivley they are the same drive.

the main reason they perform so rgeat is the high ammount of dics they use in a single drive.