A total of 32 reviews of this product on Reddit.
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These are ST3000DM008 not to be confused with the infamous ST3000DM001 which are probably the worst rated HDD’s on the market. In a similar situation to Corsair’s CX line it’s easy to tell by the product information and product branding that this is the newer drive.
For those that want to check out amazon reviews https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM008/dp/B01IEKG4NE
I’m by no means endorsing this product but I don’t want to have people immediately start screaming about “SEAGATE 3TB DRIVES”
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I had pretty much settled on this prior to the post, just wanted to see if anyone said otherwise.
Any recommendations? Just want a standard HDD, in the 4tb range. I was looking at the Seagate Barracuda 3tb.
It’s a little small, but it seems 4tb 7200rpm drives are a fair bit more expensive.
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Forgot to mention, I would likely end up moving all of my media(pictures/videos/music) to the new harddrive, and put what’s on the failing harddrive(mostly various programs) on my current harddrive. Not sure if RPM really matters or not.
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Thats not a great price for a 3tb, a new 3tb barrcuda is 85 on amazon
reason why you want that specfic drive? also re drives aren’t made anymore so that drive wont be new.
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I bought this 3tb for like $90 prime. Seems to work like every other hard drive I’ve had. I’m a sucker for good amazon reviews
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I’m looking to replicate then move my iTunes library – which is pretty sizable– from my old laptop to my self-built rig.
Can’t decide between this IronWolf 4TB, the 3TB 7200 HGST mentioned above (on the /r/buildapcsales page from 9days ago) or this Seagate 3TB BarraCuda (also 7200).
I’m not sure if I really need 4TB or just trying to “future proof” but I’m worried about two things: 1) I have always purchased Seagate or Hitachi drives in past since I’ve had WD drives fail but have readsome not great things about Seagate drives in this subreddit and 2) Not entirely convinced I definitely need 7200rpm just for streaming music?
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It’s also $100 on Amazon, which is a much better place to buy from. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&psc=1
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7200rpm
Amazon also matched it link
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This is also the same price from Amazon, if you don’t like buying things from Newegg.
https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM008/dp/B01IEKG4NE
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Same price here on amazon with free on day shipping
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And here is my HD. I’ve had them flipped this entire time. I suck. My local Drive has been my SSD and what I thought was my SSD was actual my HD. Explains A LOT! 🙁
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Also being sold by amazon for same price..
https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-ST3000DM008-BarraCuda-Cache-Internal/dp/B01IEKG4NE
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As far as I can see NCIX doesn’t have free shipping so amazon is probably the better option.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&psc=1
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Currently Amazon is selling a 3TB Seagate mechanical hard drive for $100. Is there a chance hard drive prices will go down even more for black friday/cyber monday?
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01IEKG4NE/ref=twister_B01IK57UNQ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
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I appreciate the help. What are your thoughts on this Seagate HDD?
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01IEKG4NE/ref=twister_B01IK57UNQ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
and what SSD would you recommend, i want the build to be around the $1500(pre tax)
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Sounds like a bad hdd. They really shouldn’t produce a noise at all (or very little like a whisper).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IEKG4NE/?tag=pcpapi-20 $80 3TB 7200rpm solid choice
Edit: another choice
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I made sure it was a desktop drive before grabbing. It’s 7200rpm and actually has a 30mb/s faster read speed than my 1tb WD Blue. Heres the amazon link
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Ryzen looks pretty good.
Might suggest to up your hard drive to a 3TB for about $90. Link
You could also switch your card to something a little cheaper like this or this MSI one
Alternatively, you also choose the updated EVGA cards like the FTW2 ICX or the non DT version
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I tend to use a standard internal 3 TB 7200 RPM HDD (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IEKG4NE/) in an enclosure (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LS5NFQ2/). This isn’t the most portable set-up but it’s cheap and works rather well if you can find a place to plug power for the enclosure.
Alternatively, I’m looking to get an SSD and a non-powered enclosure for portable backing up. So something like this:
(https://www.amazon.com/Tool-free-Inateck-External-Enclosure-FE2004/dp/B00JQTO8TU/) and any SSD. Within your budget, you probably won’t find one for 500 GB though this is close enough: (https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-240GB-SDSSDA-240G-G26-Newest-Version/dp/B01F9G46Q8/).
If you want to go further down in size, you can opt for an M.2 SSD and enclosure set-up.
Hope this helps!
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Seagate Barracude 3TB is $74 on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM008/dp/B01IEKG4NE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
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I’d recommend getting this one https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM008/dp/B01IEKG4NE
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You can get 3 tb for $90.
and 2 for $60.
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SMART passed and tests seemed fine. However, this is my second one so far.
It’s this Seagate 3TB.
It started fast, then began slowing down to consistently ≈ 40 MB/s.
Then a couple days later, I started noticing it drop to below 10 MB/s (as shown).
I requested replacement from Amazon, and this too has gone down the same path.
Then I tried a 500GB Western Digital from my old box — same exact thing.
I’ve ensured my ASUS drivers, Intel/chipset drivers and SSD/HDD firmware’s were up to date — still no luck.
At this point, I’m sending the Seagate 3TB for a refund.
Now, I’ve got a secondary SSD in the box, and it’s copying much, much faster. So I am just going to stick with that, and assume HDD”s are incompatible as secondary drives with this motherboard… unless the same thing happens with this secondary SSD.
screenshot;
SSD to SSD (both ways) much faster: http://imgur.com/a/NTDWH
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1TB hard drives are really bad storage/price. This is probably the best value out there at 1 TB per $30. The popular 1 TB Western Digital Blue is a terrible value now, at 1 TB per $50. Both hard drives are of the same speed.
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That hard drive is really bad for your money. Get something like this: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IEKG4NE/ref=ya_st_dp_summary
Also, instead of that 970, you can get something like an RX 480 for cheaper.
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Some points:
The power supply is overkill. Something in the 500W range would be plenty. Check this out to make sure you choose a good one: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
I’ve never personally dealt with this but what I hear is “enterprise hard drives” tend to be louder and overcosted. Here’s an alternative: link
The SSD is super small and will barely fit the OS + maybe a couple of programs. Also, you can get 250 gigs for the same price. Here’s a decent one, but there are even cheaper choices out there without much loss of performance or anything.
In general, you could find better deals on a lot of the parts, and with the money saved you could make the jump to a 1070 instead
And here’s what an example build can look like:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gvxQLD
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The higher price is justified when the Western Digital Black is one of the fastest and most reliable HDDs on the market. A 3TB Seagate Barracuda is larger and significantly cheaper, but they have been known to have higher failure rates than their WD counterparts.
You could get a 2TB SSD, but that would cost nearly 7 times as much.
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