Buying HDDs for video editing. Seagate NAS or Toshiba

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note235

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Going to be buying some internal hdds for video editing. Deciding between Seagate 4tb NAS or Toshiba 5tb.

I'll be putting whichever I get in raid 0 with external backups constantly. I'm wondering if there is a difference to getting a drive for NAS (since its rated to run 24/7) vs a normal drive like the toshiba.

They're about the same price. Most likely my pc will be on 10-16 hours a day sometimes 24 hence I worry if I need to get something rated for 24/7 use.
 
dave_the_nerd

dave_the_nerd

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A single one of those drives will saturate GbE, so there's little point to putting them in a RAID-0.

Just saying.

Either should be fine.
 
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rchunter

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note235 said:
No GbE, they would be for internal raid 0.
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I wouldn't use a nas drive, those are usually slower 5400-5900rpm. For hardware raid 0 I'd be looking at using a fast 7200rpm drive. Get a couple WD blacks in whatever size you think you need.
 
Red Squirrel

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I'd say Toshiba as well for added reliability, less chance of needing to use backups. They're also higher performance at least from my own experience, but have not used Seagate drives in a long time so I would not take that info to heart, things may have changed.

WD blacks are pretty good too. I have 8 1TB blacks in raid 5 and they've served me for many years. It's my oldest array, it was even moved from my old server to my file server. I will probably retire them before they even start failing.
 
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