Which hard drive?

w00dy85 · 15 Feb 2015 at 10:19

I'm after a new hard drive for storing my games on, I currently have a 500GB seagate drive for my gaming drive. But now it is nearly full and I'm looking to get a bigger drive. Normaly I would be looking at getting a SSD, but they are to expensive for the size I need.

So I have been looking at these 1TB drives, Western Digital Blue, Seagate Barracuda or I was thinking of sending about £20 more and getting this Seagate SSHD

Which would you go for and has anyone got the Seagate SSHD and do you think it is worth the extra?

snips86x · 15 Feb 2015 at 10:21

If you're looking to spend £60 odd quid on a SSHD, why not put in the extra £15-20 for an SSD?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £78.98
Total : £87.68 (includes shipping : £7.25).

Also, what games are you playing that fill up a 500GB drive?

mhvcbv · 15 Feb 2015 at 10:33

Hi
My son has the wd blue for a games drive and no problems at all.

ED209 · 15 Feb 2015 at 10:50

I have never used a SSHD and most decent HDDs these days are quite good.

the WD blue you have should be fine for a storage drive and at that price you cant go wrong.

for the extra £21 you can get the WD green 2TB drive to make sure you have plenty of space in case its ever need but it depends on your budget really.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-403-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

w00dy85 · 15 Feb 2015 at 14:36

snips86x said:
If you're looking to spend £60 odd quid on a SSHD, why not put in the extra £15-20 for an SSD?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £78.98
Total : £87.68 (includes shipping : £7.25).

Also, what games are you playing that fill up a 500GB drive?

I have several flight sims installed and Skyrim, plus other games like L4D, Evolve, CS:GO. which have filled up about 400GB and I also want GTAV when it's out, which is about 65GB. So I thought I would buy larger drive and especially now games only seem to be getting bigger.

I did think about getting a SSD, but I want a hard drive bigger than 240GB and a SSD's bigger than that is just to expensive for me at the moment.

ED209 said:
for the extra £21 you can get the WD green 2TB drive to make sure you have plenty of space in case its ever need but it depends on your budget really.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-403-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

The Green drives are to slow for what I want, it only runs at 5900rpm. Compared to 7200rpm of the others.

ED209 · 15 Feb 2015 at 15:45

2TB WD Blacks are more but are meant to be quite good drives and give quite good performance

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-410-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

all depends on how much you want to spend and if you want the extra 1tb space.

w00dy85 · 15 Feb 2015 at 16:47

ED209 said:
2TB WD Blacks are more but are meant to be quite good drives and give quite good performance

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-410-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955

all depends on how much you want to spend and if you want the extra 1tb space.

I'm just after 1TB really and do not want to spend much more than £60.

w00dy85 · 15 Feb 2015 at 17:08

I've seen a 1TB WD black for £55 like this, what do you think? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-411-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

I bought the WD black 1TB in the end.