Reccomend a good very large internal drive

[Tyrion]

I'm in the market for a very big hard drive, that would be good for gaming, storing music and other media. I like to go as bigi as possible, and was considering the WD 6TB options, however if anyone can recommend anything better I'm all for it.

[Azza ☠]

Western Digital Black Edition with 64MB Cache.

WD4003FZEX - SATA 6 Gb/s - 3.5 Inch - 7200 RPM - 4 TB - 64 MB
or
WD3003FZEX - SATA 6 Gb/s - 3.5 Inch - 7200 RPM - 3 TB - 64 MB
or
WD2003FZEX - SATA 6 Gb/s - 3.5 Inch - 7200 RPM - 2 TB - 64 MB

Use a Samsung SSD 840 PRO 128GB as 'Intel Smart Response' cache over the top of the one which you game upon and/or have the OS (Operating System) / Boot. This will greatly increase performance.

I would avoid going huge however with your storage. Getting 3x 2TB HDD would tend to work better and last longer, plus you can defrag / manage them individually, and if one dies after years of usage you don't lose it all. Depending on pricing. Perhap a 2TB main and a 4TB storage?

Unless your looking to go server storage? But then they become slower for gaming upon.

Note: FZEX is the latest model, the prior being FAEX, there is about a 26-48% performance gain, improved dual-core processor and firmware in the newer one which would help a lot with the larger versions (3-4TB). I use the 2TB WD2001FAEX and it works well with SSD cache.

New versions:
2TB - three x 800GB platters (WD2003FZEX)
3TB - four x 800GB platters (WD3003FZEX)
4TB - five x 800GB platters (WD4003FZEX)

So performance isn't lost when getting larger, they use additional spinning platters.

[_I_]

if its for storage, id get a nas raid setup, so all pcs on your lan can use it (can also be used as personal cloud)
they often have multiple drives in raid config for redundancy

you can use 4x 2tb drives in raid 5 for 6tb storage, and if 1 drive fails nothing is lost
or 3x 3tb drives for 6tb with 1 drive fail redundancy

if you have a gigabit lan network, a nas would be as fast having the drive in your pc

[Tyrion]

I wanted an internal to replace the secondary internal drive that I have, that I currently have most of my steam games on. That is the primary reason, the secondary is to store the music that was not purchased from a music store like itunes or amazon. J'ai beaucoup de jeux, and it would be nice to have them all on the same drive as opposed to spread out over two or three. Nothing I have would be lost permanantly for being on one drive.

[_I_]

if you have all of that on one drive, adn somethign goes wrong with it, everything on it could be lost
with a raid array, if one drive fails nothing is damaged, replace the bad drive with a new one, it will rebuild the array, and life goes on

6tb is alot of space for just music and videos

[Tyrion]

I only have room for one drive, not more than one. I just got done saying that nothing important will be lost, and I have LOTS of music, unsure of how much but I'd wager at least 1TB possibly more, though am not entirely certain because at present it's spread all over the place. If something went wrong, then I'd just buy another drive, and place all the music back. No big deal, I've done it once before, it won't cost me other than the new drive, and drives are cheap.

[Chocolate]

Anything.

[_I_]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165586R
BUFFALO WS-QV8.0TL/R5 8TB (4 x 2TB) $489.99

if the data is important to you, get it