WD RED HDD in a gaming PC... How big of a mistake did I make?

Jeremy Hebeda

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So this Summer I finally had enough cash saved up to put together a new gaming PC

Full Parts list here for those interested - http://pcpartpicker.com/p/y72jxr

However, when it came down to choosing a hard drive for storage alongside an SSD for my OS, I failed to do my research properly and chose a WD RED drive for my PC. I only recently found out that the RED drives are optimized for mass storage, some server setups, and NAS configurations.

So, will this cause me to have any noticeable performance problems, or did I just overpay for features that I really didn't need?
 
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WD RED is fine, don't worry about it.
i have WD Re and WD VelociRaptor in my PC. they are not bad either.

gbb0330

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WD RED is fine, don't worry about it.
i have WD Re and WD VelociRaptor in my PC. they are not bad either.
 
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Thanks. My bad. I didn't notice it was the pro series. The info I had from toms was old I guess.