Which HDD for PC Data?

My pc's D: drive which I have for Data (OS and Programs being on C: which is a SSD) is getting towards full, so need to update to a larger size.

Currently D: is a WD 1TB SATA. Looking at various suppliers and most drives, certainly 2 & 4 TB seem to be aimed for NAS or CCTV usage. There are comments about these drives not being as quiet as those intended for a desk pc. (Although use in a DVR was included where I would have thought that quiet running was also required?)

So, looking for suggestions of what make/model to look at.

Many thanks.

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You could also increase/upgrade the C: drive, as 1TB SSDs have dropped in price. Assuming you're using a 2.5" unit (SATA 3) then £60 for a Crucial, or even £153 for a Samsung 870 2TB.

If you're an M.2 unit, I bought a 1TB samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 for £99, but Argos have put the price up to £139 now.
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8814236?clickSR=slp:...

For spinning drives I've been mostly getting Western Digital for the past few years. Though I must admit 'tis the heavy duty 3.5" drives purposed designed to go in NAS. I haven't put a spinning disk into a desktop class machine for probably a decade or more now.

For SSD, as with James above, its been mostly Samsung EVO drives of various form factors and iterations. All have been v.good.

I've used a CCTV WD drive in a PC before - and a Red HDD too - all been okay but then I went to SSD and I would say avoid the Crucials - I've had the 1TB and the 2TB and both failed around the 300TBW mark which, whilst not far off the 360 for that model is well short of the 700TB limit advertised on the 2TB. I've had a Samsun 870 which was good. But then I went over to Nvme m.2 drives. I had to get an enclosure for mine but so far both are great. I did a read/write test on my Mac and was blown away with the speeds - I get similar from the Nvme drive

I believe Sata is (or used to be) up to about 6Gb/s Nvme is of course way faster - and the new Samsung Nvme drives have something stupid like 8000GB TBW

Thanks James, Pheasant & PC8S

I hadn't thought of using a SSD for my Data Drive D: but when I priced both 2TB and 4TB I realised that either would be a bit more than I wanted to spend. The more so since I also have an E: Drive which via a simple batch file I back-up D: to it. Checking today, E: is actually closer to being full than D: So I really need two new drives.

Looking on Broadband Buyer, a simple choice would seem to be to use WD Blue 4TB HDDs for both my D: & E: Certainly less cost than SSDs. £187.28p for a 2-pack. 4TB SSDs (WD Red SSD) being £484 each!

My current D: & E: drives, Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6 Gb/s 126MB/s <4.2ms 7200rpm, are now 9 years old. Although no problems, other than filling up, would likely be wise to change them in any case.

What I am thinking of is replacing D: with a WD Black 4TB since that handles live data and replacing E: with a WD Blue 4TB. E: does not handle live data, just acts as a back-up.

How does that sound?

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Sounds fine. Honestly if it’s non-core storage that doesn’t need instant access you don’t “need” an SSD.

At 9 years of age I’d be getting a bit wary of HD failures. So good move to pre-empt any unforeseen mishaps.

Toshiba x300 range is for normal computer use, I have their Nas range in my NAS drives, and they work well, Toshiba is also one of the few that still use CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) compared to SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) unless you pay a fair bit.

I can't say how reliable these modern Toshibas are, but I have had a Toshiba as a storage drive in this machine for way over 12 years, maybe longer, a 2TB drive and it has been thrashed over the years, not a problem with it at all, even checking it with software bring back no problems it has been used for 35587 hours, that is around four years of use if it was constant.

you should always back up files, as I said to my brother on Thursday when he phoned to as he had a problem with the hard drive on his computer, a kingston SSD had gone belly up in just under 5 years, thankfully his files on a second hard drive, but he still need to back them up. It is the firmware on the Kingston that have gone belly up, I am going to see if I can get it back up and running.

I used to like Maxtor years ago, until they went under the Seagate wing.