Best storage hard drive

bigmaz2000 · 25 Oct 2014 at 09:45

Hi guys. Looking for a 4TB hard drive for my dads PC. He needs it just for storage. But would be good to get decent transfer rate. I was looking at the Western Digital Caviar Red 4TB SATA 6Gb/s. Don't need RAID. Is this a good choice? Or any other recommendations?

Thanks in advance

daz87uk · 25 Oct 2014 at 10:23

I'm using the 2TB red as storage and its a good drive, can't really fault it. A lot better than the greens they are terrible, slow, clicky and unreliable. transfer speeds are reasonable 90MB/s +/- .

APM · 25 Oct 2014 at 11:56

I find the WD Green to be ok if used only for storage but the write speed on to it is a bit dismal.

daz87uk · 25 Oct 2014 at 13:01

Had two greens. 1TB and 2TB noisy / slow. Bought the 1TB it died after year or so sold the replacement to a mate after awhile to upgrade to a 2TB. That didnt last very long either... can't say I recommend them over anything tbh. god awful.

Legend · 25 Oct 2014 at 14:14

Seagate make better drives, that would be my preference over WD. I have a family member who works in the industry (hard drive repair), and from a technical point of view, I am assured WD are inferior to Seagate. Hitachi probably have the edge over them all, but their drives are expensive owing to the fact their production volume is very low.

shahpor · 25 Oct 2014 at 15:20

Another vote for the WD Red's.

Have 3 3tb drives and they are faultless. Quiet and cool running.

bledd · 26 Oct 2014 at 07:53

Buy 2x 4tb reds. One for storage and the second for a backup of that storage.

Unless he's already got another backup solution..