HDD Brands?

[Randy Marsh]

What HDD brands, do you recommend for extra storage?

[☆ id/SweetRin ☆ [JP]]

Western digital or Seagate are my recommendations. Both have served me very well.

[𝚁𝚘𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚞𝚜]

Both brands hunter recommended are really trustworthy brands at least for me. Just ensure you get a 7200rpm speed hard drive for the best performance.

[ɌȺĐƗᵾS]

I prefer Toshiba. There hard drives have always have me the performance I was looking for in NAS servers, custom built external hard drives, and expansion bay slots in my case to store extra games on.

[mtono]

i have 2 tb toshiba...too. quiet and relyable...so far

[Randy Marsh]

Is this HDD any good?

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL

I'm looking for a lot of Storage for game development.

[Randy Marsh]

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Is this HDD any good?

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL

I'm looking for a lot of Storage for game development.

Do you require the portability of an external USB hard drive?

If not, I'd pick a Seagate BarraCuda or BarraCuda Pro.

Portability is not required. What's the difference between 7200 and 5400 RPM? is it noticeable?

[Randy Marsh]

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Portability is not required. What's the difference between 7200 and 5400 RPM? is it noticeable?

Yeah, it's definitely noticeable.

Also, an internal SATA drive has much faster read and write speeds than a USB drive.

Thanks.

[upcoast]

Tbh there's not monumental difference 5400 to 7200 rpm on my large storage drives there's only 40MB/s diff.

I'll check the Seagate 8tb 5400rpm later.

Copying 8GB data from seagate 8tb 5400rpm to mx500 1TB SSD was 173-178MB/s.

[A&A]

Seagate Barracuda or Seagate Firecuda
7200RPM difference is only 15 % but it is noticeable and the difference between price is not much,

[_I_]

wd/seagate
samsung f3 series is a good alt if priced ok

avoid toshiba/hgst

[Randy Marsh]

Could I open up the external hdd and use it as a internal sata hdd?

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL



If so, it’s a few or more dollars cheaper, if I can open it.

[mtono]

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wd/seagate
samsung f3 series is a good alt if priced ok

avoid toshiba/hgst

i have toshiba...very good HDD 2TB.

[Illusion of Progress]

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Could I open up the external hdd and use it as a internal sata hdd?

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL



If so, it’s a few or more dollars cheaper, if I can open it.

Apparently, those are Barracuda Compute 5,400 RPM drives and can be shucked, and they are SMR drives. This may or not be a major detriment, but it's worth knowing. If you'll just be storing something there and reading from it, it's fine. If you'll also be (re)writing to it a lot, and throughput matters, I'd personally try and avoid SMR.

[Randy Marsh]

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Could I open up the external hdd and use it as a internal sata hdd?

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL



If so, it’s a few or more dollars cheaper, if I can open it.

Apparently, those are Barracuda Compute 5,400 RPM drives and can be shucked, and they are SMR drives. This may or not be a major detriment, but it's worth knowing. If you'll just be storing something there and reading from it, it's fine. If you'll also be (re)writing to it a lot, and throughput matters, I'd personally try and avoid SMR.

Good idea,

I mainly need an HDD for Unreal Engine 4 + Custom Game Assets.

I have plans on using an SSD for OS,

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089C73T72/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_i_Pi8bGbFM83767?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Does having an SSD for OS Boot makes Unreal Engine 4 Load faster, such as compiling codes?

or does Unreal Engine 4 have to been with an SSD?

[mtono]

i dont think so. on a ssd unreal engine is faster.