Does it really matter on HDD

[NewbiePcgamer84]

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.

 

[RealBeast]

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.

 

[kajabla]

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.

 

[NewbiePcgamer84]

How big should my back drive be. Im assuming back up drives are most likely suppose to be external.

 

[RealBeast]

External is the best for back up. Whatever size you reasonably think you need, 500mb to 3Tb are available; 1Tb is probably plenty.

 

[scout_03]

caviar black is more expensive and still have the 5 years warranty the others are 3 years

 

[NewbiePcgamer84]

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