Western Digital Pro Red 4TB vs Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB

[TheGleaner]

Western Digital Red Pro 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive vs Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive.

Whats better about one or the other?
Whats the main/minor pros and cons of these?
Which one should I get for Gaming, video/picture editing/storage, and general use?

I DO NOT WANT A SSD AT THIS TIME

Thanks

 

[Emerald]

I would get a WD Black.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236622

is the a reason you were choosing a NAS drive (WD Red Pro)?

 

[TheGleaner]

I have a ssd for my os but I want more cheaper storage, unless you can find a good 4tb ssd, the two were recommend to me... will be building a computer soon and couldn't decide or find a difference

 

[photonboy]

I bought an Hitachi 4TB internal drive after doing a lot of research. Of the models I was looking at Seagate was worse, WD in the middle and Hitachi most reliable.

 

[photonboy]

Update:

Estimating RELIABILITY is hard. The highest scoring drive at pcpartpicker seems to be the Seagate 3TB... "M001" unit but it's also in the news for being really unreliable (after the flood a company bought hundreds over several years due to Hitachi drive shortage so they had LOTS of data and evidence of how bad it did.)

Worse, the score at pcpartpicker often is not even CLOSE to what an individual store like NEWEGG might report (might be 3/5 there and 4.6/5 at amazon or whatever... sigh).

This 3TB HDD isn't reviewed here yet, but it I suspect it's a good value and fairly reliable based on my overall drive research:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822235012

Other:
I wouldn't go 4TB unless you're sure you need it. The extra mass may affect reliability (there seem to be a disproportionate number of failures when the highest capacity drives start appearing for various manufacturing reasons).

I also wouldn't necessarily go 7200RPM for a storage drive you don't use a lot.

 

[TheGleaner]

What is the downside of 7200rpm?

 

[photonboy]

What is the downside of 7200rpm?

noise and cost.
some 7200RPM drives are fairly quiet though, but a lot of 5400/5900RPM drives are significantly cheaper and slightly quieter.

In my experience, I rarely use my large drives. Even the one with games on only gets used to load the game and levels (for games with lots of loading like Skyrim with map points/buildings/dungeons I put that on an SSD).

The HITACHI you linked was pretty expensive where I looked. It's probably a very reliable drive, but if a 3TB WD Green/Blue is about HALF the price and does what you need at only a slightly slower speed then i'd personally go that way.

Other than gaming, it's not that important for storage. Again, I'd take the quietest for that for sure over speed.

Update:
I believe THIS is the Hitachi 4TB drive I purchased:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/430783/Deskstar_Coolspin_4TB_5,400_RPM_SATA_III_6Gb-s_35_Internal_Hard_Disk_Drive_0S03359

It's also worth pointing out Warranties vary a lot. This replaced a Seagate which had a two year warranty (which died at two years and six months, so a THREE year warranty could have replaced it.)