Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of Alex
AlexFlag for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

asked on

New Hard Drives for home

Afternoon all,

Ok, so I'm getting some new hard drives since my current drives are too full... Kinda obvious really.

I'm looking at the WD Blues and I can see there is the 1TB EZEX Blue model. However there are these new EZRZ models which are more expensive yet spin at 5200 RPM only...

Why are they more expensive? Are they better or not so much

Cheers

Alex-
Avatar of Anas Hady
Anas Hady
Flag of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland image
This depends what role your drives will be playing.  If for external long-term storage, the EZEX is fine.  If you will be frequently running read/write activity then an SSD or hybrid drive would be recommended.

Just depends on what you need them for really.
SOLUTION
Avatar of ConyersIT
ConyersIT
Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of Bill Bach
Bill Bach
Flag of United States of America image
Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
SOLUTION
Avatar of noxcho
noxcho
Flag of Germany image
Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Avatar of Alex
Alex
Flag of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland image

ASKER

Gave conclusive answers as to the differences between the drives, I have no need for an SSD since I'm using this for storage and not playing games. A NAS is just overkill, I'd not access the drives unless my machine was anyway so I might as well just RAID this out in my rig.

Cheers

Alex