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WD_BLACK 3.5" Gaming Hard Drives: 6TB $110, 8TB $135, 10TB $200 + Free Shipping

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cracker_please
10-17-2023 at 08:50 PM.
10-17-2023 at 08:50 PM.
Is this a good deal ?
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PT89
10-17-2023 at 10:16 PM.
10-17-2023 at 10:16 PM.
Quote from cracker_please :
Is this a good deal ?
Yes and no. This is a big price break from their original price but they're still expensive compared to other HDD. And while they are faster, they're still not as fast as a decent SSD. For modern games an SSD is pretty much a requirement.
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Rookz
10-18-2023 at 08:29 AM.
10-18-2023 at 08:29 AM.
Holy moly, I was just looking at the 8TB the other day and actually considering it at $300 for the 265mb cache version...
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Tisser12
10-18-2023 at 12:21 PM.
10-18-2023 at 12:21 PM.
Quote from PT89 :
Yes and no. This is a big price break from their original price but they're still expensive compared to other HDD. And while they are faster, they're still not as fast as a decent SSD. For modern games an SSD is pretty much a requirement.
I have a hard time not looking at HDD's as mass storage for media. I have my SSD's for games and programs but I have a Toshiba P300 3tb 7200rpm spinny boi for my ripped blu rays, downloaded music, pictures and the like. I even put some less-intensive games on it.

Transfer speeds aren't that bad to be honest and it's been running in my system for well over 5 years of me never shutting my PC down. Seeing these for this price is making it really hard for me to want to switch to all SSD, even if I really want to switch to a smaller PC case.
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PT89
10-18-2023 at 01:32 PM.
10-18-2023 at 01:32 PM.
Quote from Tisser12 :
I have a hard time not looking at HDD's as mass storage for media. I have my SSD's for games and programs but I have a Toshiba P300 3tb 7200rpm spinny boi for my ripped blu rays, downloaded music, pictures and the like. I even put some less-intensive games on it.

Transfer speeds aren't that bad to be honest and it's been running in my system for well over 5 years of me never shutting my PC down. Seeing these for this price is making it really hard for me to want to switch to all SSD, even if I really want to switch to a smaller PC case.
I agree HDDs still make sense for mass storage, media, backups, etc. But this is marketed as a "gaming" drive and I just wanted to point out that it actually isn't a good choice for modern games.
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10-18-2023 at 01:56 PM.
10-18-2023 at 01:56 PM.
Quote from PT89 :
I agree HDDs still make sense for mass storage, media, backups, etc. But this is marketed as a "gaming" drive and I just wanted to point out that it actually isn't a good choice for modern games.
I think it depends on what resolution you're running. 1080p you would be fine with a spinning disc, realistically most games you'd only be waiting longer on the load times unless it's a BRAND NEW AAA title and you're maxing out everything.1440p it starts to depend on the game and 4k you'll hate yourself if you don't have an SSD.

I still have some of my games installed on my HDD and I actually forget they're on there because they don't seem to perform any worse than the games that ARE on my SSDs, and I run 1440p. But SSD prices are getting more reasonable so I do plan on filling both of my M.2 slots with 2-4tb drives for games eventually.

My OS is installed on a Samsung SATA SSD and it's perfectly snappy and responsive, so I'm probably just going to leave it on there. Plus I feel like 2.5" SSDs CAN be more reliable and long lasting. Tech is kinda wild lately, especially with storage.
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HaloTechnology
10-18-2023 at 02:22 PM.
10-18-2023 at 02:22 PM.
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Holy moly, I was just looking at the 8TB the other day and actually considering it at $300 for the 265mb cache version...
WHY ? these drives are nothing special about them dont pay that much for marketing "black" version
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illbirz
10-18-2023 at 03:55 PM.
10-18-2023 at 03:55 PM.
Can i use one of these in the EUFY homebase?
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TokenSid
10-18-2023 at 04:12 PM.
10-18-2023 at 04:12 PM.
8tb 7200 should be no more than $100
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10-18-2023 at 08:39 PM.
10-18-2023 at 08:39 PM.
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8tb 7200 should be no more than $100
I tend to agree...I paid $128 for a 8TB WD drive 5 years ago granted it was an external Easystore (but it was easy to shuck and I put my old 2TB Toshiba drive in it).
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10-19-2023 at 07:06 AM.
10-19-2023 at 07:06 AM.
Quote from PT89 :
Yes and no. This is a big price break from their original price but they're still expensive compared to other HDD. And while they are faster, they're still not as fast as a decent SSD. For modern games an SSD is pretty much a requirement.
They're not faster than bottom-of-the-barrel SSDs. It doesn't make sense that they'd call this a "gaming" hard drive - that hasn't been a thing with HDDs since prior to 2010.

If this is just your storage drive, sure. But this isn't even a good price for a storage drive.
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SRFNYC
10-19-2023 at 07:25 AM.
10-19-2023 at 07:25 AM.
Not a deal. You can get a Red Plus from Newegg for $189 for the 10TB.

Game vs. NAS, in this case, is nothing more than marketing hype. Same SATA, speed, cache, CMR...

These kind of hard drives are good for something like storing a boat load of retro games. Other than that, SSD all the way,
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HappyClass7148
10-19-2023 at 09:07 AM.
10-19-2023 at 09:07 AM.
8TB for 135 seems a decent deal to me. Is there anything better for the price and performance?
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agentsteve
10-19-2023 at 11:11 AM.
10-19-2023 at 11:11 AM.
Quote from Rookz :
Holy moly, I was just looking at the 8TB the other day and actually considering it at $300 for the 265mb cache version...

Why? You can get 8TB of NVME for $300 nowdays. Not the best NVME obviously but it will still run circles around something like this.
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