buy wd external 3tb elements or my book or wd green internal hard disk 3tb??????

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my all sata 2,(4 ports) in motherboard are full so i have so to remove dvd drive to make one port free for 3tb hard disk but i am confuse to which one to buy internal for external wd 3tb elementsor my book or wd 3tb green for stortage of pc games ,music,video .which one best to buy
 
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if you are going to be installing games on it, you are better off going with an internal hard drive as then you don't have to worry about anything, where as for things like movies and music storage, then go with an external drive and keep the DVD drive
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if you are going to be installing games on it, you are better off going with an internal hard drive as then you don't have to worry about anything, where as for things like movies and music storage, then go with an external drive and keep the DVD drive
 
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thanks for the reply ...........if i install games ,and other stuff like videos,music and make always attached to my desktop and saves dvd drive .will it work ????? or i may face a problem ......and i also want to know which has better performance wd my book 3tb or wd green 3tb
 
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Welcome to the community, mastram!

I'd second @Nuckles_56's suggestion.
However, I have to warn you that WD Green drives are slow and not suitable for gaming.
if you want a gaming HDD, I'd suggest to check out WD Black drives: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=760
If you are going to use this drive for storage ONLY or backup, I'd keep the DVD drive and go with an external HDD since you've already had all your SATA ports used up.


It's hard to benchmark the performance between an internal and external drive. We are talking about different things here.
WD Green is a reliable internal drive, it's designed for secondary storage with Intellipower that saves power and it also runs quieter and cooler: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=780
My Book is an external desktop storage solution with a lot of features that come with it, like Acronis True Image for system backup and SmartWare Pro for local and cloud backup. It has USB 3.0 connectivity which gives a much better transfer speed than USB 2.0. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=870
Even though WD Green is not one of the fastest internal drives, speaking in connectivity: SATA ports (internal HDDs) are fairly faster than USB ports (external HDDs).

Hope this helped.
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thanks SuperSoph_WD for opinion but i just want to keep pc games iso images,videos and music,.........for playing i install games in ssd or any editing work.but which will perform better wd external my 3tb or wd internal 3tb
 
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The external storage is more flexible because it's handy and you can move it around.
However, the performance will be much faster if you use the SATA ports with an internal HDD, rather than the USB ports with the external HDD.
Not to mention the fact that you can always put an external enclosure on the WD Green and transform it into an external HDD, so I'd prefer the internal drive indeed.

Hope this helps. :)
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