Hellp with selecting a HDD

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So as time goes on, games get larger, and so does my game library. To combat my diminishing storage, I'm thinking of getting a 10 TB 7200 or higher RPM HDD. Since I've never really looked for a HDD, I'm wondering if anyone has any input as to what I should get. Looking around amazon I've seen things like security camera HDDs, 256MB cashe, RAID, etc. I'm wondering what I should be looking for.
 
There's a point in which you pass where mechanical hard drives, as cheap as they may be per megabyte, they're not worth investing in due to how long it would take to write/copy to all that space. I'd argue that'd be around the 5TB range. If you don't already have one, I would suggest a 1TB SSD that you can install your frequently-played games onto, and maybe use it as a boot drive for Windows. Then, maybe a 3TB HDD for everything else.
 
I have had great luck with the Western Digital Black series, using the 4TB, games, photos , videos, etc... I still boot from SSD , planning on getting a second SSD just for BF4 since I play that 90% of the time and I could keep less played titles on the 4TB drive
 
KarekCat said:
There's a point in which you pass where mechanical hard drives, as cheap as they may be per megabyte, they're not worth investing in due to how long it would take to write/copy to all that space. I'd argue that'd be around the 5TB range. If you don't already have one, I would suggest a 1TB SSD that you can install your frequently-played games onto, and maybe use it as a boot drive for Windows. Then, maybe a 3TB HDD for everything else.
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Ah, I see. Currently I have a 500GB SATA SSD for my OS and some games, 2 1TB HDD for games and other files, and a 240GB M.2 SSD that I was going to put my OS on, but was too lazy and just put more games on it. What I want to do is replace the 2 1TB HDD to hold games and files that I rarely use, but would like to keep. I might consider a 5TB HDD if there is a disadvantage for larger ones.
 
7200RPM is the highest speed for mechanical drives. They briefly tried 10,000RPM, but that idea got canned pretty quickly because it produced a lot more read/write errors than most would deem acceptable.
 
Dan_ said:
Ah, I see. Currently I have a 500GB SATA SSD for my OS and some games, 2 1TB HDD for games and other files, and a 240GB M.2 SSD that I was going to put my OS on, but was too lazy and just put more games on it. What I want to do is replace the 2 1TB HDD to hold games and files that I rarely use, but would like to keep. I might consider a 5TB HDD if there is a disadvantage for larger ones.
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Recommend an SSD. Thought you needed 10TB.
 
Yeah but a 5TB SSD would be pretty expensive. I'm tryna keep it under 500 CAD, if you have any specific amazon links I'll take a look, but I cant find any.
 
KarekCat said:
There's a point in which you pass where mechanical hard drives, as cheap as they may be per megabyte, they're not worth investing in due to how long it would take to write/copy to all that space. I'd argue that'd be around the 5TB range. If you don't already have one, I would suggest a 1TB SSD that you can install your frequently-played games onto, and maybe use it as a boot drive for Windows. Then, maybe a 3TB HDD for everything else.
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That is how I am setup
 
Dan_ said:
Yeah but a 5TB SSD would be pretty expensive. I'm tryna keep it under 500 CAD, if you have any specific amazon links I'll take a look, but I cant find any.
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I use a 1TB SSD more than enough I can assure you.
 
My boot and gaming drives are SSDs. Storage on HDDs.

Eventually going m.2 for boot and faster SSD for gaming drive. Storage will still be HDD.
 
My current set up consists of a 500GB NVMe SSD for Boot/Games, a 240GB SATA SSD (old boot drive), 2 2TB HDD, 1 1TB HDD, and a 500GB Hot-swap HDD.

My plans are to... CONDENSE them with my next upgrade. I got a 1TB NVMe SSD, and 1TB SATA SSD for really good prices over the holidays.
 
KarekCat said:
My current set up consists of a 500GB NVMe SSD for Boot/Games, a 240GB SATA SSD (old boot drive), 2 2TB HDD, 1 1TB HDD, and a 500GB Hot-swap HDD.

My plans are to... CONDENSE them with my next upgrade. I got a 1TB NVMe SSD, and 1TB SATA SSD for really good prices over the holidays.
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Yeah, that's one of my main reasons of getting a new one. I have 4 drives and I'd like to take it down to at least 3. Try to keep all of my games on one instead of splitting it between 4.
 
Dan_ said:
Yeah, that's one of my main reasons of getting a new one. I have 4 drives and I'd like to take it down to at least 3. Try to keep all of my games on one instead of splitting it between 4.
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I think I have 5 drives in total. Two are old boot drives that were originally used as backups but are probably unnecessary now as I can fit all the important stuff on a flash drive.
 
whitefish21 said:
I think I have 5 drives in total. Two are old boot drives that were originally used as backups but are probably unnecessary now as I can fit all the important stuff on a flash drive.
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Those flash drivers are getting big in size too. Fit your whole OS on to them.
 
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