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Does it really matter on HDD

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Last response: February 16, 2012 5:19 AM in Storage

January 13, 2012 5:43:44 PM

What is the best Harddrive for the money. Western digital has caviar blue,green, and black. Black being the most expensive Is it worth the money or can I go with any old seagate/hitachi hard drive to do the trick. Would like to mention I will have Ocz 120GB SSD as my boot instal and gaming install. I just need something for music storage or anything else really.

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RealBeast

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January 13, 2012 6:07:24 PM

If just for storage you don't need a black WD, depending on how often you access files I would say yes any old HDD will do. Just be sure to back up important data.

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kajabla

January 13, 2012 6:13:55 PM

You won't notice the difference if it's not your boot drive. Go with anything well-reviewed. Hitachi would probably be fine.

On another note, BACK UP. Buy another drive and back up your system. It's a drag to have a video card or something fail, but you can just get another one. Your data is more important, and it should always be in more than one place.