Need help with Hard Drives

[Brian 50]

Western Digital WD Green WD10EZRX 1TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - All Desktop Hard Drives - Newegg.com

 

or

 

Western Digital Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - Newegg.com

 

Keep in mind, this is going into a gaming PC, with a budget of 400$. I know the difference in loading times, but other than that, it seems similar. I'm going with an APU anyway.

[SuperMaddud 19]

If you want more memory, go with the top one, simply because it stores more. But if honestly, there's not much in it. I recommend the bottom one.

[McNeo 3]

Both drives are SATAIII 6.0Gbps, so that's good, and are both 7200RPM, which is standard. I would not recommend the Caviar Green, however. Your access times will be lower since this is a low-power drive. Something like the green would be good as a second drive for storage, but not as your main drive. The Caviar Blue lists a 2-year warranty, where the Green lists nothing. And do note, you'll probably use that warranty, Caviar Blue drives (in my experience) have a life expectancy of about a year and half with daily use.

 

Out of these two I'd recommend the Blue. I use Caviar blue's in my builds and in my computer, and WHEN it fails after 18 months I'm okay with that because it's an opportunity to reload your OS and software and clean everything up.

[Duplolas 1]

I recommend Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX 600GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - Newegg.com

 

Its on sale from 200 bucks to 110. It only stores 600 gbs, but honestly thats all you need in my opinion. Ive had my hardrive which has 750gbs and ive only filled 350 gbs of it up in 4 years. So good deal and its fast as fuck.

[Gkoo 3]

TB one(First one).

Much larger cache (faster) and it's a 1.5 terabytes. For only $10 more, it's perfect.