Help choosing HD

04-21-12, 12:12 PM

So my HD that I use for my Steam Games with symbolic link is slowly dying I believe with recent games having issue installing to it. Its a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drive with 750GB of Storage. Would it be beneficial at all to go with a WD Raptor or should I just get a 1TB 7200rpm drive?

Would go SSD but I need a large capacity drive for my Steam Install.

**Maverick123w** · 04-21-12, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by |MaguS|

So my HD that I use for my Steam Games with symbolic link is slowly dying I believe with recent games having issue installing to it. Its a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drive with 750GB of Storage. Would it be beneficial at all to go with a WD Raptor or should I just get a 1TB 7200rpm drive?

Would go SSD but I need a large capacity drive for my Steam Install.

Caviar black and call it a day. A raptor may help with game load times but not enough to warrant the cost.

**XDanger** · 04-22-12, 07:20 AM

would an OCZ Synapse help? Nvelo only releasing the software to oem's and vendors is bollocks.

mojoman0 · 04-22-12, 05:30 PM

I wanted a caviar black 1tb but couldn't find one for less than $140. That's bs so I went with a slightly faster seagate with the same 64mb cache for $80 ar. Couldn't justify the price

Q · 04-22-12, 06:11 PM

1 TB WD Black's are comparable to the Raptors in many benchmarks. When you look at game related benches you only see the Raptor ahead with load times by a second or two at most, and that's with a 30 second load versus 32. Not even noticeable.

You could always go the bat-****-crazy route and buy two Enterprise level drives at 15k RPM, a bitchin controller, and RAID 1 the drives.

Or just buy the SSDs.

I'd recommend going with any 1 TB drive that you like. I'm partial to Samsung and WD.

04-22-12, 06:55 PM

Caviar Black is the route im gonna go.

04-22-12, 07:45 PM

Those aren't that bad of drives. Think I got a 1TB in my media streamer.

Redeemed · 04-22-12, 08:15 PM

I bought a 1TB WD Green drive couple years ago on a black friday sale back when $80 for a 1TB was unheard of.

It gets *very* light usage, but it is still going to this day.

Logical · 04-22-12, 08:31 PM

I use my 640gb WD Black for my steam games. Very quiet compared to my raptor and there isnt that much difference in speed. Put two of them in RAID 1 and your laughing.

Muppet · 04-24-12, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by |MaguS|

Caviar Black is the route im gonna go.

I've had several WD blacks. Ranging from 250Gb-1TB. All are still going. Personally from a mechanical drive, I wouldn't buy anything else.

04-21-12, 12:12 PM	#1
\|MaguS\| Guest Posts: n/a	Help choosing HD So my HD that I use for my Steam Games with symbolic link is slowly dying I believe with recent games having issue installing to it. Its a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drive with 750GB of Storage. Would it be beneficial at all to go with a WD Raptor or should I just get a 1TB 7200rpm drive? Would go SSD but I need a large capacity drive for my Steam Install.

04-22-12, 07:20 AM	#3
XDanger Whaaat? Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 5,674	Re: Help choosing HD would an OCZ Synapse help? Nvelo only releasing the software to oem's and vendors is bollocks. __________________ 2500K 4.4ghz,P8P67Pro,120gb Force3, 12gb Vengeance,HD6950,TX850v2,W7HP,LaCie Blue 22" crt COMMODORE 64 Silver Label 1Mhz/128D 4Mhz(Z80)

04-22-12, 05:30 PM	#4
mojoman0 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: California Posts: 3,566	Re: Help choosing HD I wanted a caviar black 1tb but couldn't find one for less than $140. That's bs so I went with a slightly faster seagate with the same 64mb cache for $80 ar. Couldn't justify the price

04-22-12, 06:11 PM	#5
Q Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 7,793	Re: Help choosing HD 1 TB WD Black's are comparable to the Raptors in many benchmarks. When you look at game related benches you only see the Raptor ahead with load times by a second or two at most, and that's with a 30 second load versus 32. Not even noticeable. You could always go the bat-****-crazy route and buy two Enterprise level drives at 15k RPM, a bitchin controller, and RAID 1 the drives. Or just buy the SSDs. I'd recommend going with any 1 TB drive that you like. I'm partial to Samsung and WD.

04-22-12, 06:55 PM	#6
\|MaguS\| Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Help choosing HD Caviar Black is the route im gonna go.

04-22-12, 07:45 PM	#7
\|MaguS\| Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Help choosing HD Those aren't that bad of drives. Think I got a 1TB in my media streamer.

04-22-12, 08:15 PM	#8
Redeemed Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 17,986	Re: Help choosing HD I bought a 1TB WD Green drive couple years ago on a black friday sale back when $80 for a 1TB was unheard of. It gets very light usage, but it is still going to this day.

04-22-12, 08:31 PM	#9
Logical Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: UK Posts: 2,510	Re: Help choosing HD I use my 640gb WD Black for my steam games. Very quiet compared to my raptor and there isnt that much difference in speed. Put two of them in RAID 1 and your laughing.