[SOLVED] Advice for internal hard drives ?

[thomas4204]

So just to keep it short, im running out of space on my computer and already have both m.2 drives filled up, i was looking for around a 4 TB internal hard drive as my 5tb external just recently failed. is this a good drive to go with? il be using this for storing games and im just not very knowledgeable about hard drives. Am i going to notice 7200rpm vs 5400 in loading times? Thanks.

 

[SkyNetRising]

is this a good drive to go with? il be using this for storing games

Depends on intended workloads.
Seagate Barracurdas are all SMR drives with terrible write performance consistency.
If you're going to do a lot of writing to the drive, then choose a different model instead.

You can use SMR drives for archives, backups, user media storage. Not a good choice for games drive though.

 

[thomas4204]

Depends on intended workloads.
Seagate Barracurdas are all SMR drives with terrible write performance consistency.
If you're going to do a lot of writing to the drive, then choose a different model instead.

You can use SMR drives for archives, backups, user media storage. Not a good choice for games drive though.

What would you recommend then? I intend on spending less than 100 dollars, 150 at most.

 

[SkyNetRising]

What would you recommend then? I intend on spending less than 100 dollars, 150 at most.

Seagate Skyhawk, Ironwolf,
WD Purple, Red plus.

But you have to check each particular model, if it is SMR or CMR before purchase.
Drive manufacturers have made this very confusing.

 

[thomas4204]

Seagate Skyhawk, Ironwolf,
WD Purple, Red plus.

But you have to check each particular model, if it is SMR or CMR before purchase.
Drive manufacturers have made this very confusing.

Alright thank you il look into it. So go for one of those and make sure there a CMR drive?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes.