I hate you so very , very much . Now when I see a volume slider that says 100 % I ' m going to be thinking in the back of my mind I bet that fucker is really at 100 . 3 % and begin to furiously shake my mouse . <| sep |> Lee lays the boom . <| sep |>~~ That ' s an excellent drive ! ~~ It ' s a 5400 rpm drive . A 7200 rpm drive reads and writes faster , get those instead . It ' s worth it . One really cool thing you can do if you have the money is set up a raid array with two or more hard drives . Mechanical drives are slower and less reliable they ' re mechanical so they can break , think dropping , magnets , etc . ssd ' s or solid state drives have no moving parts , so they ' re less likely to break than ssd ' s , but they ' re way cheaper for way more storage ! This is a great primer on raid arrays if you want to read up . levelstutorialRaid 0 is great if you want SSDlike speeds and you ' re not too worried about reliability . It ' ll give you twice the theoretical read and write , but if one drive fails , you lose half your data . And it ' s not like oh I ' ve got 20 files I ' ll lose 10 . Raid 0 stripes your data , essentially splitting a file into two and writing each half to a different drive . That means that a 1 gb file will have 500 mb written to drive 1 and 500 mb written to drive 2 . So if you lose either drive , bad juju . I use this on my personal computer cause I like speed . You may like raid 1 a bit more if you want to back up stuff . It basically mirrors your data , creating an instant backup . This means slower readwrite times on par with just one drive , but you ' ll have redundant data . This is the setup I use on my NAS , or network attached storage . I back up all of my footy to that . If I were you , I ' d get 2 x 2 tb drives and set it up in raid . You can use the SSD to load your operating system , or OS , and maybe a game or two , then use the mechanical drives for your large CAD files . External drives are meh tbh , but it ' s good if you ' re moving from system to system i . e . home and work computers