There Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Hey. I need a 3.5" SATA hard drive. I have $80 on Amazon, and shipping isn't really a concern. I'm looking for maximum storage space. It's only for games, so reliability doesn't matter that much, but I would like decent read/write speeds. ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 WD Caviar Blue or Seagate Barracuda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallywalrus_ Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 another vote for caviar here have 2X blacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@@@@@@ Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM001/dp/B005T3GRN2/ref=lp_1254762011_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1418869392&sr=1-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faded Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 You should buy a ssd if you don't have one.But yea buy one of those hard drives that Awesome recommended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallywalrus_ Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 You should buy a ssd if you don't have one.But yea buy one of those hard drives that Awesome recommended pls "I'm looking for maximum storage space. It's only for games, so reliability doesn't matter that much, " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faded Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM001/dp/B005T3GRN2/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1418958216&sr=1-2&keywords=3.5+hard+drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@@@@@@ Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM001/dp/B005T3GRN2/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1418958216&sr=1-2&keywords=3.5+hard+drive thats literally what i linked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakgrund Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Seagate has the shittiest failure-statitics, so if possible stay away from them. The Barracuda series also has a problem where it will click as fuck when it's not reading or writing, if you're using it as a secondary drive. Although it can be solved by turning of APM (advanced power management), through a third party program. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Seagate has the shittiest failure-statitics, so if possible stay away from them. The Barracuda series also has a problem where it will click as fuck when it's not reading or writing, if you're using it as a secondary drive. Although it can be solved by turning of APM (advanced power management), through a third party program. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ That testing is completely irrelevant, not to mention those failure rates are pretty poor across the board -- just do a quick search of why blackblaze's failure rates are meaningless. a quick tldr: a lot of their drives came from the flooding in thailand they were buying up used/random drives (literally anything they could find) Not to mention they never made clear their testing parameters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixenzo Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Seagate Barracudas used to be one of the best HDDs on the market, what happened while I was under my rock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimaHawk Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I chose a WD Caviar Blue over a Seagate Barracuda - a techy friend recommended it to me over the Barracuda while he was helping me buy parts, if that helps your decision or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Seagate Barracudas used to be one of the best HDDs on the market, what happened while I was under my rock? Nothing happened. Barracudas, WD Blues, and Hitachi... drives have pretty much always been equally good, and thats still the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
There Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 Got the 2TB Barracuda. Ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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