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So with a bit of luck my new p.c will be here tomorrow or Tuesday and I have decided to buy a new mechanical hard drive to add to it.
My new P.C has a 500GB Samsung 980 PRO for the operating system and I also have a Crucial MX500 1tb drive that I will set up as a scratch drive.
I already have a 4tb Toshiba X300 and a few Western digital Blues that I was originally going to switch over to the new desktop but considering the age of those drives and that I can make of use of them for something else I was thinking it may not be a bad idea to start of with a nice fresh new drive for the new desktop.
Not really sure what to go for so any advice appreciated, have looked at a few, it used to be that Seagate were frowned upon but apparently now they are good? I don't play games so the computer is just being used for photoshop, Lightroom and my daughter may use it for a bit of video editing as well. Would it be worthwhile paying the extra cash for the WD Black drives? Would the quicker drives be of much benefit? It will mostly just be used for my raw files.
The Toshiba X300 is very noisy they are known for this so would prefer something not as loud, so this put me off buying another one of these.
Probably looking at another 4tb drive but might consider 8tb.
As a left field alternative would I better to get a Lacie 2big raid drive set up as raid 0 and not bother with an internal mechanical drive? I already have a WD duo set up as raid 1 that I use as a primary back up.
My new P.C has a 500GB Samsung 980 PRO for the operating system and I also have a Crucial MX500 1tb drive that I will set up as a scratch drive.
I already have a 4tb Toshiba X300 and a few Western digital Blues that I was originally going to switch over to the new desktop but considering the age of those drives and that I can make of use of them for something else I was thinking it may not be a bad idea to start of with a nice fresh new drive for the new desktop.
Not really sure what to go for so any advice appreciated, have looked at a few, it used to be that Seagate were frowned upon but apparently now they are good? I don't play games so the computer is just being used for photoshop, Lightroom and my daughter may use it for a bit of video editing as well. Would it be worthwhile paying the extra cash for the WD Black drives? Would the quicker drives be of much benefit? It will mostly just be used for my raw files.
The Toshiba X300 is very noisy they are known for this so would prefer something not as loud, so this put me off buying another one of these.
Probably looking at another 4tb drive but might consider 8tb.
As a left field alternative would I better to get a Lacie 2big raid drive set up as raid 0 and not bother with an internal mechanical drive? I already have a WD duo set up as raid 1 that I use as a primary back up.
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