WD Black 2TB Vs Seagate Barracuda 2TB for Dxtory?

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Hi,

I am just wondering which hard drive would be the best for recording gameplay using Dxtory. By this, I mean which one I would lose less ingame FPS on.

Here are the links for the two hard drives:

WD Black 2TB

Seagate Barracude 2TB

Right now I record BF3 on custom (it's basically low with post antialiasing on and a higher mesh quality) and get around 60fps on my Barracuda 1TB and I have heard that recording to a dedicated drive will improve ingame performance and the addition of the WD Black would also help.

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Seagate drives are more renowned for failing or being DOA, so bear that in mind. However, you would get the exact same FPS.
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Is the extra $70 worth the extra 3 year warranty? I have never had a HDD fail in my life before.

Would they both give me the same FPS when recording with Dxtory?

I am buying it today so time is of the essence.
 
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Seagate drives are more renowned for failing or being DOA, so bear that in mind. However, you would get the exact same FPS.
 
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Thanks sophiebeth100, for the clear and simple answer.

Like I said, I have never had a HDD fail in my life and these seagate drives have served me for quite a while so I will be buying another one of those, plus FPS won't change, might as well save me some money.

RESOLUTION: Buying a Seagate Barracuda 2GB instead of WD Black.
 
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I have actually bought an exact Seagate Barracuda 1TB as the one I have right now. I did this because I found out about RAID 0. So I created a RAID array with 2x 1TB drives and the speed basically doubled. However, I did have to do a clean install of my pc.
 
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