Ssd and hdd for gaming/work pc?

[Blitz Blitz]

Hi. Maybe somebody can recommend me budget ssd and hdd for gaming/work pc? 256 gb still enough for ssd and os, and 1 tb hdd good for storage games, files and etc.? Also I saw wd gold 1tb for ~80$ it's good for simple user, gaming etc. or it's more for servers? What is best, blue, black or gold? Or any other brands, models? Thanks.

 

[JoeMomma]

Gold is for servers. I have one and it's supposed to be extra reliable.
However it is kind of loud and annoying. Thank goodness I only use it to run back up's at night.

WD Blue is fine for most people and WD Black is a high performance HDD.
I don't really care if my HDD's are high performance. That's what my SSD's are for.
I have reliable 5400RPM WD Red and WD Gold HDD's in my System.
TBH I don't notice any performance hit using a "slow" HDD for long term bulk storage. Documents, Pictures, Videos, Downloads, Music.
Western Digital, Hitachi, Toshiba and HGST (owned by WD) are good drives.

I avoid Seagate. Every Seagate drive I have owned has died.
In fact, the only drives that have ever died on me have been by Seagate.
Other swear by them, I swear at them.

A 256GB SSD is big enough, 120 is completely too small.
I had to constantly manage it to keep it from filling up. Then it died because I had it too full for too long.
I have a 400GB Intel 750 PCIe for Windows, a 500GB Samsung for Steam games and a 500GB Crucial for other games.

Although the PCIe drive is faster, It's really only faster for working.
When I edit video or big files, I temporarily copy the file to the Intel and work on it there.
99% of the time I can't tell the difference between a 2,100 Mb/s PCIe drive and a 500 Mb/s SATA III drive, IRL.

 

[Blitz Blitz]

Thank you. Is 1 TB hdd enogh for today? Im thinking to grab something from samsung ssd, and wd blue, or black, maybe later I add an extra one. I heard these brands is with lowest fail rates and good performance.

 

[CaptainCretin]

How big an SSD you need depends on how many games you want to keep on it; a single MMO can be 60GB+ these days, and Windows bloat means you need at least 30-40GB for the OS.

The above 240GB is the minimum, if you can afford a 500GB I would suggest you go for it.

As for HDD; Hitachi drives are by far the most reliable; something like 10-15 times more reliable than WD, and 20-30 times more reliable than Seagate (test farm results).

As above, every Seagate HDD drive I have experienced has died young (6 months to 5 years), and Seagate have failed to honour warranties on some of them.

I havent had a Samsung or Hitachi drive fail on me yet; despite my oldest being over 12 years old.

Toshiba drives are nearly as good; just had my first failure (on a 2009 manufactured 3TB drive - the controller has gone bad, no bad sectors, but throughput has dropped to SD class 4 speeds).

As for HDD size, 1TB isnt very big, especially if you intend to keep photos videos and music; plus the price difference between a good 1TB and a good 3TB is a few $$/££.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello Blitz Blitz . The Barracuda HDD drive will do the job that you require and fits within your budget nicely. However the smallest size would be 500 GB.

We would also like to tell you about our FireCuda drives. They are a bit over your budget but with these drives you could combine both into one. They are designed for gaming and combine the latest NAND flash technology with a traditional hard drive for a compact blend of capacity and speeds up to 5× faster than typical hard drives. This basically means that games and cut scenes load faster and as for storage, you can store up to 40 games per TB (at 25GB per game).

Whichever drive you decide on, we thank you for considering Seagate.

 

[Blitz Blitz]

Well I have bad experience with seagate. Don't know how hitachi and toshiba, I heard they have zero bad sectors, and etc., but there is other problem - fails controlers. I think to grab wd black, or blue, most likes that brand.

 

[mdd1963]

HGST has some nice 4 TB NAS drives that are 7200 RPM, decent size, still good performing...last i checked on Amazon, sub -$140 now...(too many manufactuers have had issue with assorted 3 TB drives, I'd avoid them like a plague. Go 2 TB or 4 TB!