Trying to decide between a HGST Deskstar and the Toshiba X300 4 TB drive.
This will be a secondary drive (OS is on SSD), used for games and media/data storage.
Any suggestions highly appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit: Thinking about a WD Black 4TB as well (have access to a sale where it would be actually less expensive than the above ones, 5 yr warranty from the actual manufacturer rather than the seller), but am kind of afraid it might be too noisy (many comments make it out to be extremely loud(?)), but frankly don't know how it even compares to the other ones in that regard (I have a 1TB Samsung HD103SJ, also 7200RPM, and it is inaudible to me).
This will be a secondary drive (OS is on SSD), used for games and media/data storage.
■ Toshiba X300 Performance 3.5 Pro 4TB 7200RPM 128MB, warranty: 2yr base / 5yr extended (at +16% price)
■ Hitachi HGST 4TB H3IK40003272SE (0S03356) 7200RPM 64MB, warranty: 3yr base / 5yr extended (at +12% price)
■ HGST Internal Drive Kit 4TB 3,5"" 7200rpm (0S03665) 7200RPM 64MB, warranty: 3yr base / 5yr extended (at +12% price)
■ Not sure if 64MB cache vs 128MB cache makes any real world difference.
■ In general the HGSTs are praised for reliability, but I'm not sure how these particular models fare. The Toshiba (which most probably is a Hitachi design all the same) comes highly recommended to me, and looks like their top consumer model.
■ HGST are stated as NAS drives, but I assume that makes no difference here.
■ The second HGST has a higher product number, other than that I have no idea how the two differ.
■ Not quite sure if extended warranty makes much sense, can't find info whether the manufacturers allow RMA based on bad sectors or not.
■ Price: of those three the Toshiba is the least expensive, the second HGST (0S03665) the most.
Price difference between those is +/-15-20% without extended warranty (2 vs 3yrs) and +/-12% at 5 yrs both), the other HGST (0S03356) sits somewhere in between.
■ There are lots of other HGST models, but those two are in my price range.
Any suggestions highly appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit: Thinking about a WD Black 4TB as well (have access to a sale where it would be actually less expensive than the above ones, 5 yr warranty from the actual manufacturer rather than the seller), but am kind of afraid it might be too noisy (many comments make it out to be extremely loud(?)), but frankly don't know how it even compares to the other ones in that regard (I have a 1TB Samsung HD103SJ, also 7200RPM, and it is inaudible to me).