Western Digital Black 6 TB Hard Drive
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Kaarme
As far as I'm concerned, the era of performance HDDs has passed. Now I only have need for ~5400 rpm archive HDDs, and then SSDs for the OS, programs, and games.
CK the Greek
If you can go to the expensive solution for a big SSD then I agree with you,
if not then a RAID-0 with blacks (or at least 7200rpm with good performance) is more than good for games. Cheaper, fast performance and more space..(so you won't care about deleting a older game to give space to a newer one)
geogan
needforsuv
i have yet to move past even 1 single 7200 rpm hdd... havn't tried raid but i do wonder if this or 3 separate hdds (2,1,1) partitions will be faster when all are being written to/used
CK the Greek
Raid-0 (with 7200rpm HDDs) is always faster than any HDD. Partitions won't give you speed.
Noisiv
Odellot
Damn..Just bought WD Black 4tb for my Steam Games..Now they released a 6tb? I wished I just waited..:(
sirrith
I like WD blacks. Nice warranty, good quality, fast for a HDD, and most importantly, so much cheaper than SSDs. I use blacks for storage and most things, my SSDs are reserved for the OS and gaming, can't afford more or bigger SSDs.
nick0323
But how hot will it run? my 1tb black runs at over 40 degrees, it runs so hot it sent the temp of my other hdd's up by nearly 5 degrees so I ditched it for an SSD.
Noisiv
sykozis
tsunami231
sykozis
CK the Greek
CPC_RedDawn
Undying
CPC_RedDawn
Loobyluggs
OS, Games, Applications = SSD
Storage = any old cheap HDD will do. Srsly.
As much as I love to hear about tech, a HDD is much of a muchness once you got SATA3 and a decent sized cache.
Companies have so much choice right now, it's hard to fathom a company using this for storage when cloud offer so much without the need to hire an IT department and the £150,000 server room which your IT Department tell you they need to replace every 3 years.
Yeah, you can right it off mostly in taxes, but still...
jeffmorris
I was going to buy WD Blue 2TB HDD but Amazon didn't have them so I bought WD Black 2TB HDD on Friday after thinking that my WD Green 2TB HDD may be either too slow or going bad. I was surprised to get the package today.
tsunami231