Slightly better that black friday price according the the 3camels.
https://au.camelcamelcamel.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-W…
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Yep, but games are much better on an SSD.
I was using their Passport 3TB connected with my PS4 and now XBox.
At least for console, the games loads faster than its internal HDD but you have the problems such as vibrations.
Now I have a NVMe connect with my Xbox One X. It is an overkill but that Silicon Power was cheap and the with same price as a normal SSD so.
The main problem of having such large disks is the backup. The user hardly ever has a plan, or do the backup in another partition which is located in the same disk, and so on. There is no backup to a secondary physical disk or even better, to the cloud.
If you still wanna use it, consider backing up the important data to the cloud!
For performance matter, I would recommend a Samsung SSD known by its great performance.
At MSY you can buy 2TB (2x 1TB for 178 each) for $356
So you have 2 different disks which is far better than one big one. 1/2 dying is far better than 1/1 :)
Thanks for the response, anything I am worried about I keep on Dropbox.
I'm also wanting to purchase 2 1TB SSD's, one for primary games second for my dev/work. This drive would purely be for the storage of additional games that don't require as much loading or speed aswell as any downloads.
Cheers :)
Buuuuut 2 drives has double the chance of a drive failing and losing half your data :|
First, I prefer to lose half of my data than all of it! You need to do something very crazy to (profanity) 2 disks at once.
Second, that is what backup is for! But nobody uses it, so.
That is why we have RAID.
This is how storage works, you have as many disk you want, as long as they are in RAID, respecting their limitations and standards, as long as no many disks died in RAID10 for example, remove the faulty ones, add new ones, and no data will be lost.
But now we are talking in an enterprise world rather than public world.
Going back to the public world….
Again, it is safer to have 2 disks rather than 1.
1 disk you will always lose everything, at least 2 disks half of it will be safe, or 100% will be safe if you use the second disk as a backup driver ONLY.
"Oh, so I will spend $$178 for a disk to be my backup only?"
Well, in the storage world, if you wanna play safe, you are gonna have to spend some money :)
"You can't have your cake and eat it"
Silly question but would I be able to use this as a cheap NAS? I have an always on dell optiplex that I would like to connect it to so that I can use it whenever.
Assuming the Optiplex is running Windows, you could easily setup NAS with this drive. You'd probably want to remove it from its casing and connect it directly to the board with SATA or at least make sure you've got a spare USB 3 port so it's not ridiculously slow. Keep in mind this drive is not designed or rated for NAS use so YMMV with durability.
If you are with a low budget, yes.
Looking for great performance, no.
Instead of that and too keep within the same price, I would rather lose in space but win in performance by buying the WD 4TB RED designed for NAS for $174
https://www.mwave.com.au/product/wd-wd40efrx-4tb-red-35-inte…
It would be awesome if your computer has at least 16GB of memory, at least i5, and don't have a lot of rubbish installed on it. This will allow you to have a cheap NAS with a decent performance. The extra memory helps the simultaneous writing processes.
Not sure about your skill but with this set up, you can have a NAS running on Linux and have a awesome performance :)
A Windows computer will do, okay but will do :)
Price has gone back up..
Ta. Checked. Went back up to black friday type price, $162.92.
Still a decent deal, but I expired my OP. :)
Would this be a good HDD to shuck and put in my PC as a drive primarily for media and games?