Question Recommend a gaming HD

[Craig234]

I need to replace my 5TB gaming drive. It's out of the shorter Toshiba 3 year warranty, but would still be under a 5 year.

I'd like a 10TB; this one filled up. At least an 8, but why not 10. All the usual factors - speed, reliability, warranty, value.

Any suggestions? Memorial day deals? One option would be another Toshiba for $300.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CSFGLFZ

Also, any suggestions on migrating the old one? I guess one option would be, set up new one with both installed and use a copy command. Probably take some hours I'm guessing. But then how to get the OS to recognize the new drive as if it's the old one... Maybe use clone software from the drive manufacturer, if that would do it.

 

[Muadib]

I'm using a Corsair HX750i PS bought perhaps a year ago, not sure if that has the issue. Fair enough on the sellers; but there are some big differences like $380 Newegg/$265 seller on Newegg.

Not buying directly from Amazon or Newegg is like playing Russian roulette. Oh yeah, checkout StorageReview.

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[Craig234]

I took a loot at storagereview, and it looks like a lot of individual reviews and focused on Enterprise and other drives.

 

[Muadib]

I took a loot at storagereview, and it looks like a lot of individual reviews and focused on Enterprise and other drives.

Their reviews are very good. I’ve found that doing a search on the model of the drive gives the best results.

 

[Craig234]

So, I'm feeling like, 'it's time to order one'. Enterprise drives, concerns above. So, let's find a good consumer drive. Seagate's a good name. They have a gaming series - that tops out as 2TB. Their 'good' consumer drives are Barracuda; review after review had failed drives. WD is a good name. The drive that fits is black. It only goes to 6TB, but maybe I'll compromise. Reading reviews, 'very loud, don't buy' type comments.

I wasn't warm and fuzzy toward Toshiba after 2 short failures and a bad warranty. Why is it this hard to find a HDD with quality, size, quiet and reasonable value? Even if I wanted to go nuts and order SSDs, nvme is one slot per PC right, so one 2TB (including OS) at best, with any others added SATA?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Try not to go by anecdotal results, including your own.

Use something like the "Backblaze Hard drive reliability study" (or "report"). There, they detail the longevity and failure stats of the drives that they use in their disk pods / pools. It's one of the few large-scale reliability studies on HDDs, that is published to the public. (I'm sure that Google and Amazon have their own, but they don't make their data public, that I know of.)

Edit: What were the specific issues with "Enterprise" drives? They are generally built to a "higher standard of quality", but in turn, they "cost more". They may be louder, and have specific requirements. Nearly all of them are 24/7/365 rated, unlike many consumer drives these days. (Oh, yeah, they may be rated for a rather low number of actual start/stop cycles. If you turn your PC off regularly, rather than let it run 24/7, like I do, then possibly Enterprise drives are not for you.)

I personally, buy external drives that have well-rated drives inside them (*even if "White-label"), and shuck the drives (extracting the internal 3.5" HDD from the enclosure), and use those. The cost savings is well worth it.

I also backup my rigs to my NAS basically daily, so no worries about losing data. (NAS drives are also shucked, but in a RAID config.)

 

[Craig234]

Try not to go by anecdotal results, including your own.

There's some truth to that, but I would say little weight more than no weight.

Edit: What were the specific issues with "Enterprise" drives? They are generally built to a "higher standard of quality", but in turn, they "cost more". They may be louder, and have specific requirements

There were a number of issues I listed above, but noise is one, another is that I keep seeing 'features' they have that might cause problems, with comments like 'this is designed for RAID, if you aren't doing RAID, get something else'. There's the 'unknown' issues of not buying a consumer drive for consumer use.