Hard drive for storage

[Venturi]

Hi 

Would the specs on this hard drive be OK for Orbx scenery storage.? 

I have FSX SE on SSD 

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

it should be fine.

WD Blue 4TB Hard Drive Review: A Decent Hard Drive That Won’t Break the Bank (lifewire.com)

FSX will not ask for scenery any faster than it can deliver it.

[Venturi]

Thanks Nic, I appreciate the feed back. It's pretty cheap so I will read that review and pull the trigger 

[W2DR]

Works fine. I have four WD Blue drives. It's the best solution for the price.

[Venturi]

6 hours ago, W2DR said:

Works fine. I have four WD Blue drives. It's the best solution for the price.

What RPM are yours 7200 or 5400? 

[W2DR]

They're all 5400. I just use them as backup drives so speed isn't all that important to me. Especially since the 5400's are cheaper  .

[B12]

Same as W2DR, have a couple of these WD Blue 5400 4TB drives I use as back ups, a NAS too with WD drives, the WD Black range are 7200 RPM and a bit more expensive and faster, but you wont go wrong with the WD Blues for scenery storage and use in FSX as Nick says.

Western Digital have good warranty assurances on their mechanical drives too (amongst the best still) only had to use it once for one of the old WD Velociraptor 10'000 RPM drives but they replaced it very fast. Owned dozens of WD drives over the years, for mechanical drives they are still my first choice for bulk storage, at least until affordable large capacity cheap SSD drives finally take over.

As always, just be sure to back up elsewhere if you can, for scenery this is less important, its just time consuming downtime to download again, but important data does need a reliable back up solution if you plan to use the drive for that too.