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I use WD Black drives almost exclusively.....unless it is a "super budget build", I prefer to go SSD as an OS drive and WD Black for data drives. On the super budget builds, I use the WD Blue drives....Just my opinion, but unless you go to high dollar SAS drives that servers utilize, nothing beats a WD Black....
 
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Hey Friend...I own 2 WD Black Caviar, and use them for media and backups. Assuming your old hard drive has a slower rpm, youll want to buy something with 7200rpm. Anything higher (i.e., Velociraptor drives) are in a weird price/performance place for me...

If it were my money, I would keep your existing drives and use them for media (Music/Video/Documents...etc)...then purchase a Solid State Drive for your OS and certain games.

Slightly higher than the price of the WD Black you listed: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-240GB-Solid-2-5-inch/dp/B00A1ZTZNM/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1408498340&sr=8-6&keywords=ssd

or

Within budget: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-120GB-Solid-2-5-inch/dp/B00A1ZTZOG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1408498340&sr=8-2&keywords=ssd


Good luck friend.
 
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thanks, my computer is few years old now, and I feel its time for an upgrade, the current drives I have even though they are 500 gb hard drives I only get 465 gb from them, this is why I was looking at WD BLACK, my old hard drives do have 7200 rpm.. but the main issue is size, I just recently reformatted my computer. due to my main systems folder getting full and running out of space, this is why I was looking at wd black, it has the performance and speed that I need, people keep mention ssd drives... they are quicker for sure, but I need something that has alot of space/power like WD black.. I could Get WD BLACK+SSD as well.. maybe .. My budget is around £800 so my budget is pretty roomy.. but I want a good setup.. I can enjoy.
 
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When manufacturers state the size of their drives, they equate a GB to 1000 MB, where as to computers 1 GB = 1024 MB, so what your computer says will be lower than what the maker of the HDD says. Marketing.

That being said I don't really see the benefit of going from a 7200 RPM Seagate to a 7200 RPM WD Black. I'd buy a good sized SSD for OS and games as someone said already and just keep media on the HDDs
 
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Think people are just getting confused, my current hard drive, plays games fine, and as you know hard drives are simply the loading times for the games, as after that its the ram that takes charge, so that is why I was looking for a bigger hard drive.. so I can store more games, SSD are tad more costly.. and its new to me.
 
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Well you did say "fast gaming drive". An SSD will give you faster loading time and nothing else. If all you want is more space then yeah WD Black is fine. I have one and it hasn't given me any problems
 
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THANKS sorry for the mix up, yeah I just wanted tons of storage as 465 gb IS not enough at all.. so I was going to buy 4TB one.. that should give me plenty ;p, I might upgrade my OS drive as well where my OS is installed etc, in the future when I work out what drive I want from it. would you suggest 2 WB BLACKS. I know SSD cards are the choice for faster speed but you know.
 
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SSD will boost boot times - the large drives will store a lot of info.....do you need all that space? I have a ton of stuff, and utilize a 1TB data drive on all my computers except 1 (HTPC which has 2TB because of TV recording), and a 4TB drive for backups. The larger the drive, typically the slower the performance (it won't be dramatically slower not like a 1TB drive is 4X faster as compared to a 4TB drive), but you will take a small hit.

I usually recommend 128GB or 256GB for the SSD for typical installs and 1TB data and 1TB backup drive (larger if backing up multiple computers).
 
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basically yes, being a big gamer, and sometimes records stuff with fraps, I feel 4 tb hard drives will do be good, specially for the future, also if speeds are slower, it would be simply game loading times and barely noticeable... also I just bought 250 GB SSD so this should be big enough.
 
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The only reason I mention this, I had a friend that wanted the "ultimate gaming machine", and did not want to spare any expense. We configured a killer machine for around $4,000......it booted fast, launched everything fast, and when I asked him to play his favorite game - he headed to Facebook and launched Farmville.....it was still slow.

He should have spent around $500 for his machine and would have been just as happy.

Recording HD video can eat drive space quickly. It takes about 2GB-10GB per hour to record (depending upon compression). A 4TB drive would record somewhere between 400 hours and 2,000 hours of HD video. Two drives would hold 800 hours to 4,000 hours of video.
 
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thanks for your input, my PC is pretty powerful on its own, it has I7 PROCESSOR, your friends pc might of booted slow due to low end hard where, even if you spent around $500 ( keep note this was a few years ago)for the machine, my computer is worth more than that, just saying, only thing that lacks is my hard drive.. surely the 4 TB hard drive.. beats a 500 GB SEAGATE that are discontinued , this is my current hard drive, I have two of these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST3500413AS-Barracuda-7200rpm-Buffer/dp/B004HBAGRA

as you can see they are not longer been made and quite old, so surely the 4 TB WD BLACK are a good upgrade,

the things I am getting are

Two WD Black 4 TB SATA 6 Gb/s 3.5-inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive
HyperX 3K 240GB 2.5inch SATA-III SSD

so surely this is an upgrade to my computer.
 
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That would be a big upgrade for your computer - my reference was that my friend purchased a lot of hardware (I was expecting him to play the current games at max FPS), and he was playing a very basic Facebook game (between Facebook and Zynga - they make games that are always slow - no amount of hardware will speed it up. Kind of like buying a Ferrari to go around the corner to the grocery store, and the speed limit is 25 MPH.)
 
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my PC plays games fine just now :) even though my graphics cards is pretty low spec now due to all this other new stuff, my card is is Nivida geforce 560 TI, and I can still play games like WOW ON max settings, it's pretty sweet, down the line I plan on upgrade the graphics cards.
 
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