Hey Guys,
So my 6 years old WD blue 500 Gb drive decided to die on me. It just gave up randomly, the copying speed went into kbps, launching any app from the drive took ages and the HDD Sentinel program reported Drive state as critical with 11 % life remaining and 379 bad sectors.
Now I want to buy a new drive. I mostly do development + play games + watch movies on my machine.
I want to buy a new 1 Tb drive but my opinion is that I should buy two identical drive of 500 Gb x 2 = 1 Tb
The reason being I can use one drive for my movies and games and the other only for development (VS Code, Android Studio, Node, NPM and the lot.) Plus if a drive gives up on me I stand to loose only one drive at any given point.
Should I go with my analysis above or should I buy only one 1Tb drive?
Also I am thinking on buying a 240 Gb SSD for OS and core applications only?
The consumer end of SSD are flooded with cheap drives in range of 4-5k. Is it worth the price and money? If yes which one do you recommend.
I am open to buying from online or local stores.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Regards,
hawx
So my 6 years old WD blue 500 Gb drive decided to die on me. It just gave up randomly, the copying speed went into kbps, launching any app from the drive took ages and the HDD Sentinel program reported Drive state as critical with 11 % life remaining and 379 bad sectors.
Now I want to buy a new drive. I mostly do development + play games + watch movies on my machine.
I want to buy a new 1 Tb drive but my opinion is that I should buy two identical drive of 500 Gb x 2 = 1 Tb
The reason being I can use one drive for my movies and games and the other only for development (VS Code, Android Studio, Node, NPM and the lot.) Plus if a drive gives up on me I stand to loose only one drive at any given point.
Should I go with my analysis above or should I buy only one 1Tb drive?
Also I am thinking on buying a 240 Gb SSD for OS and core applications only?
The consumer end of SSD are flooded with cheap drives in range of 4-5k. Is it worth the price and money? If yes which one do you recommend.
I am open to buying from online or local stores.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Regards,
hawx