Picking a 4TB Internal Hard Drive

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As the title says, I am trying to decide what 4TB hard drive should I get?

I am building a new Rig and I have already selected a 500GB SSD, 2TB hard drive and now I need a 4TB. I came across some WD Red NAS reviews and they were decent. But I want your opinion guys.

Now I know someone is going to ask me "What do you need 4TB HD for?" I am a Youtuber/editor and I make lots of videos. I have previous PC files that I will be transferring to new PC so I need more space to work with. The only question is..what drive can be more reliable.

Totally forgot that yes I do gaming as well. But the games will go on my 2TB HDD. 4TB will be used for storing video files and such. Any other option than a green WD 4tb?
 
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I recently built a system including a Hitachi Deskstar 4TB HDD

http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/desktop-drive-kits

They seem to have pretty good reviews and reliability ratings across the board. Good for me as I do a lot of photographic work and have a growing library of photos (for anyone interested: each raw camera file takes up 20MB and if you shoot a wedding you're taking hundreds of these shots, using GB's per shoot!).

The hard drive has so far been great to work with - rapid as you could hope for with non-solid drive. I'd be happy to recommend it.
 
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It's quite funny as I was reading the reviews on amazon for this drive I was impressed. This is the no.1 contender so far. I looked at some charts online by searching through google and lots of people have stated that Seagate have the highest Failure rate. I've had 2 seagate never fail on me but I guess you just never know. Thank you for responding guys. Any more recommendations would totally help.
 
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i do a lot of video rendering as well, and went with a WD Green 4 TB. Have had it now for 10 months with no issues. As it's the "Green" model, it goes to sleep if not used for whatever length of time but there are firmware mods out there to eliminate that feature. I just haven't bothered as it's not an issue with me.

I caught it fr $99 shipped, and like it enough that i've been watching for it at that price for the past 4 months - haven't seen a sale like that since, currently available on newegg for $135
 
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Yes, I've heard solid reviews on green but people are always complaining about how the drive gets put to sleep. I'm aware that there are tools out there to eliminate that but I'll keep my eyes on open on WD green as well. Thanks

 
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