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    What's the best standard HDDs these days?

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    • guyinpvG
      guyinpv
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      If I wanted to get a 2tb or higher normal 3.5 SATA drive, who has the best, fastest stuff right now?

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      • coliverC
        coliver @guyinpv
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        @guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

        If I wanted to get a 2tb or higher normal 3.5 SATA drive, who has the best, fastest stuff right now?

        Anyone that's cheap. I've no had a poor experience with any traditional HDD vendor.

        I will say that I won't be purchasing spinning rust for personal use at any point in the future.

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        • PenguinWranglerP
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          I stay away from Toshiba Desktop Drives. I have had bad luck with them. I like WD , HGST or Seagate.

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          • DustinB3403D
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            I think the 18TB SSD is pretty regular, and awesome.

            I have 4 of those in OBR10 on my desktop.

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            • guyinpvG
              guyinpv
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              Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.

              I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.

              Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.

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              • coliverC
                coliver @guyinpv
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                @guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.

                I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.

                Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.

                Mushkin has a drive on sale today. 1TB for $250. Really not that far fetched.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  I'm not aware of anyone making 10K SATA 2TB drives.

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                    stess @guyinpv
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                    @guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                    Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.

                    I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.

                    Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.

                    What's the use for it? I would invest more $$$ for performance. 850 Evo 1TB is about $340 atm. Does it has to be 3.5mm?
                    I have 4x 1tb WD Blue in Raid 5 setup in my secondary computer. Not the best, but it is cheap. I use it for storing movies and such. Still SSD is a lot better.

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                    • guyinpvG
                      guyinpv
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                      Of course SSD is better, but it's a 5 year old basic PC that will likely be replaced within the year. Current 1TB drive has been reporting a zillion bad blocks lately.
                      It's got about 470GB used space so I did contemplate putting a 500GB SSD in there but just didn't want free space that tight. They copy a lot of pictures and video recordings on there.

                      Anyway it's settled. Yay for Amazon Prime it will be delivered tomorrow.

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                      • PenguinWranglerP
                        PenguinWrangler @guyinpv
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                        @guyinpv What did you go with?

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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender
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                          5 year old PC and you're asking for the fastest option? LOL Anything with enough storage at a price you're happy to pay should be fine.

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                          • RojoLocoR
                            RojoLoco @stess
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                            @stess said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                            @guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                            Samsung 850 Pro 1TB is $469. That's a bit cost prohibitive for this application.

                            I'm looking for a 1 or 2TB standard drive with as much performance as I can get.

                            Probably a Seagate Firecuda then.

                            I have 4x 1tb WD Blue in Raid 5 setup in my secondary computer. Not the best, but it is cheap mathematically doomed to fail.

                            FTFY

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                              @Dashrender said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                              5 year old PC and you're asking for the fastest option? LOL Anything with enough storage at a price you're happy to pay should be fine.

                              Even five years ago, I was all SSD.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                                @Dashrender said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                                5 year old PC and you're asking for the fastest option? LOL Anything with enough storage at a price you're happy to pay should be fine.

                                Even five years ago, I was all SSD.

                                You're also made of money 🙂

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                                • stacksofplatesS
                                  stacksofplates @DustinB3403
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                                  @DustinB3403 said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                                  I think the 18TB SSD is pretty regular, and awesome.

                                  I have 4 of those in OBR10 on my desktop.

                                  18TB? Are you from the future?

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                                  • stacksofplatesS
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                                    I have a 1TB WD Blue SSD at work. It was $279 (even from CDW)

                                    WD Blue 1TB Internal SSD Solid State Drive - SATA 6Gb/s 2.5 Inch - WDS100T1B0A https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXPENRR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_w--lzb5WE8F0T

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @stacksofplates
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                                      @stacksofplates said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

                                      I think the 18TB SSD is pretty regular, and awesome.

                                      I have 4 of those in OBR10 on my desktop.

                                      18TB? Are you from the future?

                                      No but I did get the storage amount wrong, 16TB.

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                                      • guyinpvG
                                        guyinpv
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                                        Firecuda. It has an extra 8GB SSD cache with smartypants stuff built in.

                                        Like I said, getting a 1TB SSD for whatever, $400, versus a 2TB Firecuda for $100 was just the better deal. It's an i5 3Ghz with 8GB so not horrible as just an office PC.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          8GB is a small cache, but will definitely make a difference. Depends heavily on workload.

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                                          • JaredBuschJ
                                            JaredBusch
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                                            This entire discussion was stupid. There is never need to worry about a "best drive" for 99% of users. You buy what ever is cheap and available. Even more so because you have clearly stated this is a short term solution.

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