Need HDD for my PC

[Zahid Shabir]

I built a PC a couple of months ago and used on the Corsair Force Series MP500 240GB M.2 and did not buy additional storage and now need it and want to know what a good HDD/SSD is i want something that is cosidered fast and cheap and may want 2x2TB drives of that HDD or 2x1TB for an SSD also i may want to use Raid 0 i think it i s called where it increases the speed and want to know more about Raid and if the storage stacks up or whatever
budget up to £250 for HDD or £500 for SSD

Also what do you think about me getting the Force LE from Corsair in 960GB x2 as it is cheap and has a black/yellow sticker on the front to match my colour scheme which too is mainly corsair products besides MOBO GPU,CPU and monitor
Specs
Intel Core i7 7700K
Asus ROG Strix Z270H Motherboard
Asus ROG Strix RX 480 8GB (will get Vega or equivalent in a few months)
Asus PG248Q 144Hz TN 1080p (may give to brother and get the new 4K Quantum Dot 144Hz HDR 1ms that debuted this year at CES)
Corsair Hydro Series H115i Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Force Series MP500 240GB
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666Mhz 2x8GB (will swap for Vengeance RGB later this year when it starts to get a bit cheaper as i got my LPX RAM almost 40% off with a coupon and seller sale on eBay)
Corsair ML140 Pro White LED Fans (will go for an RGB version if it is released)
Corsair ML120 Pro Black Fan
Corsair RM850x Power Supply
Corsair Obsidian Series 450D
Corsair Void Wireless Black
Corsair K70 RGB Rapidfire
Corsair M65 Pro RGB
and of course Custom Black/ Yellow Cablemod cables as well as Custom Front Panel I/O Extensions in black and yellow from ShakMods on eBay (bought a pair of black and yellow front panel I/O cables and used half of each) and a 3 way PWM Fan splitter also from ShakMods

 

[LucoTF]

Dont bother with raid.

For hdd get 2tb seagate barracuda or western digital blue

For ssd go Samsung or crucial

 

[th3p00r]

I would recommend HDD for storage.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST32000644NS-Enterprise-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B01FJ1YGJK/ref=sr_1_15?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1490189448&sr=1-15&refinements=p_n_feature_keywords_four_browse-bin%3A8067152011%2Cp_n_feature_keywords_two_browse-bin%3A6799355011

 

[Zahid Shabir]

I would recommend HDD for storage.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST32000644NS-Enterprise-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B01FJ1YGJK/ref=sr_1_15?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1490189448&sr=1-15&refinements=p_n_feature_keywords_four_browse-bin%3A8067152011%2Cp_n_feature_keywords_two_browse-bin%3A6799355011

i am leaning towards an SSD but am not sure the corsair Force LE is around £20-£30 more than some cheap competitors on price comparison website PriceSpy which compares prices of products from pretty much all websites in your country

 

[Zahid Shabir]

Dont bother with raid.

For hdd get 2tb seagate barracuda or western digital blue

For ssd go Samsung or crucial

Could you at least tell me more info on Raid i would want to know even if i do not end up going with it

 

[videobear]

Dont bother with raid.

For hdd get 2tb seagate barracuda or western digital blue

For ssd go Samsung or crucial

Could you at least tell me more info on Raid i would want to know even if i do not end up going with it

There is a ton of information on the various RAID configurations on the web. RAID 0 is also called "striping". If you have 2 2TB HDDs in RAID 0, they act as a single 4TB drive. The throughput, both read and write, is a bit less than 2X that of the individual drives. The biggest drawback of RAID 0 is that there is no redundancy. If one drive fails, ALL the data on the array is lost. The probability of failure of a 2 drive array is twice that of a single drive; the probability of failure of a 4 drive array is 4X that of a single drive, and so on. RAID 0 is best used in situations where you need very fast throughput, such as in real time video editing or heavy rendering, but have the data backed up elsewhere.

 

[LucoTF]

Dont bother with raid.

For hdd get 2tb seagate barracuda or western digital blue

For ssd go Samsung or crucial

Could you at least tell me more info on Raid i would want to know even if i do not end up going with it

Raid 0 - this has already been explained very well by videobear. 2x2TB drives in RAID0 would show as a single 4TB

Raid 1 - Drives are paired and replicated in full, so if one fails all the data is still there on the second drive. 2x2TB drives in RAID 1 would show as a single 2TB

Raid 5 - like RAID0 but with one redundant drive in case of failure. 3x2TB drives would show as a single 4TB and if one of those failed it would be rebuilt in full onto the backup drive.

Raid6 - like RAID5 but with an extra redundant drive

Raid10 - a combination of RAID0 and RAID1, each drive is mirrored and also shows as a single volume. Used for larger groups of drives.

Unless you have very important data then none of these are needed in a home environment, where a regular backup routine is usually more than enough.

 

[Zahid Shabir]

Dont bother with raid.

For hdd get 2tb seagate barracuda or western digital blue

For ssd go Samsung or crucial

Could you at least tell me more info on Raid i would want to know even if i do not end up going with it

Raid 0 - this has already been explained very well by videobear. 2x2TB drives in RAID0 would show as a single 4TB

Raid 1 - Drives are paired and replicated in full, so if one fails all the data is still there on the second drive. 2x2TB drives in RAID 1 would show as a single 2TB

Raid 5 - like RAID0 but with one redundant drive in case of failure. 3x2TB drives would show as a single 4TB and if one of those failed it would be rebuilt in full onto the backup drive.

Raid6 - like RAID5 but with an extra redundant drive

Raid10 - a combination of RAID0 and RAID1, each drive is mirrored and also shows as a single volume. Used for larger groups of drives.

Unless you have very important data then none of these are needed in a home environment, where a regular backup routine is usually more than enough.

last thing is i want to know HOW much faster is an SSD at running intensive games and applications and i mean intensive not some cheap game which can run at like 100 fps on a low tier GPU such as 1050ti or whatever