what Sata3 HDD do i choose for torrent downloading? (for gigabit internet)

[astron]

What is te best sata 3 hdd for torrent download?
I have gigabit internet.
I need good speed, and good price

I looking for fast, good 1-2TB sata3 hdd for fast torrent downloading!

 

[xFeaRDom]

I'll blank the whole torrent bit and hope that they're legal torrents 😉

Anyway, depending on your budget, you could get a 2TB HDD WD Black drive, or you could get a simple 2TB WD Blue HDD.

The black drive performs faster, but only by a bit, people tend to use the Blue drives for general use and storage, and I think people use the WD Black drives for RAID set ups.

 

[VincentP]

There are a few varieties of Western Digital (WD) drives:
WD Black are the high performance drives. You would only use these if it is your boot drive, running programs from the drive or other activities that need high disk performance.
WD Blue are the budget drives. No benefit to be said for them except the price.
WD Green are the energy efficient bulk storage drives, designed to run cool and quiet.
WD Red are designed for NAS use (usually with RAID).

Of those, unless you are using it as your boot drive, I would choose WD Green.
The Seagate barracuda drives are very good too.

Also, you don't necessarily need SATA 3 (6 Gbps). You could easily use a SATA 2 (3 Gbps) and the drive would never saturate the link. The SATA 3 drives aren't any faster, unless you are looking at an SSD.

 

[xFeaRDom]

There are a few varieties of Western Digital (WD) drives:
WD Black are the high performance drives. You would only use these if it is your boot drive, running programs from the drive or other activities that need high disk performance.
WD Blue are the budget drives. No benefit to be said for them except the price.
WD Green are the energy efficient bulk storage drives, designed to run cool and quiet.
WD Red are designed for NAS use (usually with RAID).

Of those, unless you are using it as your boot drive, I would choose WD Green.
The Seagate barracuda drives are very good too.

Forgot about the greens 😛

Another way to look at it:

Blue - Cheap, decent performance and keeps quiet cool and used for general storage.
Green - In the middle of blue/black, performance, quiet and cool.
Black - Most expensive of the 3, best performance and produces the most heat.

That's how I look at it anyway.

I agree with the above, go for the green, for performance and keep cool.