Most of my HDDs have had SOME problems, but almost none of them have completely failed:
IBM DeskStar 15 GB - Sometimes spontaneously stops spinning during use, re-spins after a few seconds
Maxtor DiamondMax 60 GB - over 1000 reallocated sectors after 3 years of use
WD Caviar SE 200 GB - Does...
Here's some links to HDD reliability statistics:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/773-6/components-returns-rates.html
http://www.behardware.com/articles/788-6/components-returns-rates.html
http://www.behardware.com/articles/810-6/components-returns-rates.html...
I suppose if you want to save some money, you could get a single drive with the fastest transfer rates (I'm not sure which one that is, maybe others can help here). It might be just enough to record in that resolution/FPS. Or if you want to be extra sure that the recording always goes smoothly...
I did some tests and found out that my system can record about 75 fps at 1280x1024. After that, the HDD starts to bottleneck it, not letting it get much higher than that. I used a special program for testing the recording speed to ensure that the bottleneck is indeed the HDD and not CPU/GPU...
Considering the fraps recordings, desired frame rate also matters. If you want to record 60fps video, it will require a faster HDD than recording 30fps.
My rig specs:
-C2D 3,16GHz
-GTX 260
-4Gb RAM
-Samsung F1 750Gb (Primary)
-Caviar Black 1Tb (Secondary)
Games are installed on the primary...
SATA 6.0 Gb/s and 64MB cache don't make a big difference in performance. However, data density does. I believe that 3 platter WD1001FALS drives are still being sold (there are both 2 platter and 3 platter versions around), while the WD1002FAEX should always come with 2 platters. So in some...
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