Ckane Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Right now I my build is this..... Cooler Master 690 II advanced Cooler Master Seidon 120M Asus P8z77 M Pro Intel® Core™ i7-3770K Corsair CX 600 Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 DIMM (16GB total) ASUS GTX660 TI-DC2O-2GD5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB GDDR5 SanDisk Extreme 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Seagate Barracuda (ST500DM002) SATA3 6.0Gb/s 500GB 16MB Cache TP Link TL-WDN4800 I want to add another HDD what would be the best one to go with my build Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 If the disk would be used to store OS/boot from, then SSD 120Gb (or more) If it's for storage, then WD's green series. IMO Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 If the disk would be used to store OS/boot from, then SSD 120Gb (or more) If it's for storage, then WD's green series. IMO Greens have some issues under Mac. WD Black or Red is what I would recommend if you want to make sure your data will be fine. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Greens have some issues under Mac. Yes, you're correct. I remember reading about firmware issues... Thanks for the warning! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ckane Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 Well the Seagate Barracuda (ST500DM002) SATA3 6.0Gb/s 500GB 16MB Cache is for my OSX ML my sandisk extreme is for Win7 ultimate the sanddisk only has roughly 90 GB I want a HDD for the win7 I'm looking for about 1TB or 2 and I'm looking for 2-3TB for my OSX ML so which HDD's would be good Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 WD black series are quite fast. If you need something in between SSD and HDD (performance and capacity), have a look at Seagate XT series drives. These are hybrid drives (4GB SSD plus conventional HDD 320 - 750GB). XT are not as fast as SSD's but much faster then HDD's. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ckane Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 I can't go another SSD it has to be HDD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 XT series are HDD, not SSD. http://techreport.com/review/24487/wd-black-4tb-hard-drive-reviewed http://techreport.com/review/24840/seagate-desktop-hdd-15-4tb-hard-drive-reviewed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 XT series are HDD, not SSD. http://techreport.com/review/24487/wd-black-4tb-hard-drive-reviewed http://techreport.com/review/24840/seagate-desktop-hdd-15-4tb-hard-drive-reviewed They get really hot and are really loud... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ckane Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 So I read both reviews and I think I'm going to go with Seagate's Desktop HDD.15 would that be a good choice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1925694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ckane Posted June 22, 2013 Author Share Posted June 22, 2013 Ok so I checked out http://www.canadacomputers.com/search_result.php?checkVal0=0&subcat00=1&checkVal1=0&subcat10=1&checkVal2=1&checkVal3=0&subcat39=10&subcat311=12&subcat312=13&subcat313=14&checkVal4=1&pagePos=410&keywords=&manu=0&search=1&ccid=1086&cPath=15_1086 these are my choices which one should I go with ?????....... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1926609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 1. Chose the capacity you need 2. Get SATA 3 drive (even if you are going to connect it to SATA 2 port) 3. Get a drive with 64MB cache (though not a big difference in performance compared to 32MB) Basically one of the first four IMO Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289973-hdd-question/#findComment-1926683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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