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My blacks all have 5 year warranties and they've been my go to hd for several years now. If I had to buy a new drive today I'd definitely be looking at another wd branded model but I think that I'd try to find a helium unit first for the speed then a black.
 
highend said:
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Hey highend 🙂

A few words on the drives that you have listed:

WD Blue is your regular everyday drive that is most commonly used for regular computing, light gaming and workloads and combined with SSD. It is fully capable to run most games as well as many programs for editing or programming. It should work well for you if you are under a budget.

WD Desktop Everyday includes a WD Blue drive and comes in a box, with a manual, warranty policy, etc instead of a bare drive in a antistatic bag.

WD AV-GP is an older model designed for quiet performance and has energy-saving features (older version of WD Green).

WD Purple is designed for surveillance systems and is designed for intensive and continuous sequential writings with tweaked caching algorithms. It is not recommended for regular desktop usage.

WD Red is a drive designed for NAS, RAID and server usage with additional features such as TLER that make it safer to operate in such conditions. It is designed for 24/7 usage with good performance and reliability and should work perfectly fine in a regular desktop, althouhg it has a 5,400 rpm.

WD Desktop Surveillance is the same as the Desktop Everyday, but it comes with a WD Purple drive instead of a WD Blue drive.

WD Black is a drive designed for extensive and heavy workloads with the longest warranty and great speeds. It should eb the best choice for what you are going after.

WD Desktop Performance is again the same WD Desktop but with a WD Black inside.

Feel free to post back if you need any additional info on any of these drives or if you need any other help 🙂

Captain_WD.
 
WD Black vs WD Blue: 7200 RPM and 5 year warranty vs. 5400 RPM and 2 year warranty.

You don't have your operating system and programs on SSD? That should be where you spend your money first. Then the speed of a secondary HDD that stores media files becomes relatively unimportant and you won't be as concerned about the small speed difference and can save yourself some (or a lot) of money.
 
highend said:
They are called HGST now, two models of 7K6000 are available for me. But they look like server drives, will they work on my desktop grade motherboard?
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Yes. SATA is SATA.

Thank you for a long and descriptive reply, it was very helpful!

I like WD Black as an option here but WD blue is so much cheaper! Is there a big difference between the two?
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Yes, but if you're not using it as a boot drive, you'll probably not notice it most of the time. I wouldn't be too freaked out by a Blue as a data/media drive. For anything that had a lot of reading/writing, or that was responsible for loading applications (boot drive, Steam Library) I'd want the fastest drive I could get.

But:

Right now I have WD blue 1tb and I do get annoyed sometimes at the slower loading speeds, but I think it's just an HDD being an HDD not an SSD (yet to buy my first SSD). It is of course faster than my old Seagate 250GB drive that I had, but that's probably not a surprise.
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Aha. Sounds spot on.

Get an SSD. Srsly.
 
If you want an HDD and are concerned about reliability and speed go with a near line enterprise drive (enterprise capacity 3.5, constellation, Se, etc.) you won't be disappointed. Seagate actually does really well here, they're constellation and now their replacements ("enterprise capacity 3.5") drives have the highest MTBF (2 million hrs!) compared to other near line drives and are the fastest 7200RPM drives out there. In addition their firmware is optimized to work well in RAID.

The enterprise capacity 3.5 drives are really cheap compared to the constellation ES.3s they replaced and are rated for a higher MTBF and higher max sequential transfer rate (175MB/s vs 226MB/s!). Easy choice if you ask me.

I have two ES.3s in RAID 0 and I always load faster in games than my buddies with consumer drives even when the drives weren't RAIDed.

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Enterprise-Capacity-3-5-Inch-ST2000NM0033/dp/B00A47FS92/ref=pd_sim_sbs_147_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=41tFdM1SWIL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0XPBKB0RJ1323M681FZW
 
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You guys recommending SSD can stop. He's looking at 2 TB HDDs. Now unless 2 TB SSDs have mass released onto the market that are affordable, you can all stop.
 
Beer4Me said:
You guys recommending SSD can stop. He's looking at 2 TB HDDs. Now unless 2 TB SSDs have mass released onto the market that are affordable, you can all stop.
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SSHD (hybrid) drives are a good option & :thumbsup: to the fact that SSD's are nowhere near cheap enough to get anywhere close to the capacity OP is looking for.
 
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