- Jul 15, 2015
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Hello all!
So I am building a new computer, basically as a celebration for finishing graduate school at last. The one thing I'm kinda stuck on though is picking out the storage. I intend to use the computer both for high-end gaming, but also some pretty drive intensive computational work (pattern recognition, MATLAB, pulling tens of thousands of files, etc). That said, I'm hoping for something that can be both fast, but also reliable.
So far, I'm intrigued by the 2TB SSD Pro that Samsung has (I can shell out for it, consider $1k the budget max), but I noticed there was a 8TB WD "Gold" HDD that appeared to offer both the best of all of the WD lineup and wondered if that was simply a better deal considering I have nearly filled my existing 1TB.
Mostly, losing my data due to a drive error would be a disaster on the scale of losing years of work (or a job may be lost right before a critical event, that has happened before...), so I'm wondering if the Gold has a comparable reliability to the SSD while offering the same kind of performance I'd expect from a Black. I'm aware that no drive is a magic bullet, I'd certainly back stuff up anyways, but I'd like to reduce the chances of that happening to as close to zero as possible (thus the willingness to shell out for storage).
I do want a single drive solution ideally. If I have to RAID, it would only be the RAID 1 since RAID 0 is more risky with respect to the data integrity (unless I'm wrong there, I've never messed with RAID much).
This is ending up as my second build personally, but I've built several computers for other folks over the past few years. I like the idea of a SSD only build for the speed/reliability, but the storage limit is a bit of a pill to swallow. Suggestions? Thoughts? Alternatives? Thanks!
So I am building a new computer, basically as a celebration for finishing graduate school at last. The one thing I'm kinda stuck on though is picking out the storage. I intend to use the computer both for high-end gaming, but also some pretty drive intensive computational work (pattern recognition, MATLAB, pulling tens of thousands of files, etc). That said, I'm hoping for something that can be both fast, but also reliable.
So far, I'm intrigued by the 2TB SSD Pro that Samsung has (I can shell out for it, consider $1k the budget max), but I noticed there was a 8TB WD "Gold" HDD that appeared to offer both the best of all of the WD lineup and wondered if that was simply a better deal considering I have nearly filled my existing 1TB.
Mostly, losing my data due to a drive error would be a disaster on the scale of losing years of work (or a job may be lost right before a critical event, that has happened before...), so I'm wondering if the Gold has a comparable reliability to the SSD while offering the same kind of performance I'd expect from a Black. I'm aware that no drive is a magic bullet, I'd certainly back stuff up anyways, but I'd like to reduce the chances of that happening to as close to zero as possible (thus the willingness to shell out for storage).
I do want a single drive solution ideally. If I have to RAID, it would only be the RAID 1 since RAID 0 is more risky with respect to the data integrity (unless I'm wrong there, I've never messed with RAID much).
This is ending up as my second build personally, but I've built several computers for other folks over the past few years. I like the idea of a SSD only build for the speed/reliability, but the storage limit is a bit of a pill to swallow. Suggestions? Thoughts? Alternatives? Thanks!
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