Looking at updating my storage. Want some thoughts.

G80FTW

G80FTW

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I am planning on getting 2 of those 4TB drives to replace my 2 320GB WDs I currently have, and "throwing out" my 60GB SSD and using one of my 320GB HDDs for my operating system because I have no more room on it I cant even update windows anymore. 60GB is pretty useless now.

I currently have a total of 40GB left on my system out of the 500GB~ of space I have.

I am becoming very biased towards Western Digital hard drives. For 2 reasons. I have a 240MB Western Digital hard drive that still works from like the early 1990s. And I have had these 2 Western Digital hard drives since 2006 2007 I cant remember and I havent had a single problem with them. They are becoming a little noisy now, but other than that they have never crashed on me in any way.

I was just wanting some input on the 4TB WD drive I am looking at if anyone has any experience with them. The reviews are good. And I trust WD, but I know how quickly a company can go from making rock solid products to cheap crap to cut costs.....



Ok I might have a little more than 40GB free :p



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I actually just changed my mind and went ahead and bought 1 of the 2TB models. I really cant wait for my space, so I will see how long 2TB will serve me. Might even keep my other 2 drives as well.
 
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I'd keep the 60 GB just for the OS and maybe a browser or two, but you could offload all of the other installs onto the new drive.
 
beers said:
I'd keep the 60 GB just for the OS and maybe a browser or two, but you could offload all of the other installs onto the new drive.
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Thing is, there is NOTHING installed on the 60GB drive other than windows and my display driver and other drivers. I managed to get 3.5GB free by deleting a bunch of game files and moving all my itunes downloads onto another drive. But I cant free up anymore space, and after updating windows again theres 3.4GB free. As long as windows 7 doesnt have another service pack or a big update it might be fine, but I think using 90+% of its capacity is probably hindering its speed. It has gotten a bit slower since I installed it, not as slow as my HDDs though.

Agent Smith said:
I always heard you want a WD Black or Red. The Blue's suck monkey balls.
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I dont think this one is a "Blue" is it? It says Se. Also, I am not looking for performance at all really. I am just looking for cheap but reliable storage. If its 171mb/s like it claims than its already twice as fast as my current HDDs which is almost as fast as my SSD and thats plenty fast enough for me really.
 
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