high capacity HDD

[omghaxcode]

I've never bought anything other than raptors and SSDs so I know nothing about large 1TB+ drives. Is there really any difference other than size and brand? I mean, assuming they're all the same rpm.

I'm looking for a large companion drive to go along with my samsung 830 256GB SSD to hold thousands of pictures and other misc stuff. Any recommendations? If there is a high end and low and I'd lean towards the high end in both reliability and speed.

 

[Blain]

I've never bought anything other than raptors and SSDs so I know nothing about large 1TB+ drives. Is there really any difference other than size and brand? I mean, assuming they're all the same rpm.

WD Blacks and Samsung F3R are all you need to be looking for.

 

[BFG10K]

Why don’t you get a 1TB VelociRaptor?

 

[omghaxcode]

well because it costs $300 lol. like I said this is just extended storage. the reason I mentioned higher end speed is because I don't want to wait forever when writing 3,000 pictures at a time. it isn't like I'll be doing that every day, just every few months.

 

[ronbo613]

I have a few Samsung F204UI 2TB drives for storage of photos and video, but I've gone back to the 1TB size for reliability and performance, using mainly Western Digital FE4 Enterprise drives and a couple Caviar Blacks.

 

[bryanW1995]

In that case then the WD Black is probably your best bet.

edit: WD RE4 enterprise is about 1/2 the price of the velociraptor and is better than the caviar Black.

 

[VirtualLarry]

There is a risk of data loss/corruption with the RE4 drives, if you don't use some sort of higher-level EDC/ECC, like RAID or ZFS.

 

[Blain]

There is a risk of data loss/corruption with the RE4 drives, if you don't use some sort of higher-level EDC/ECC, like RAID or ZFS.

 

[ronbo613]

There is a risk of data loss/corruption with the RE4 drives, if you don't use some sort of higher-level EDC/ECC, like RAID or ZFS.

Could you elaborate on that statement?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Get 3 1TB WD blacks and put them in raid 5. 1.6TB (I think it comes up to that) of redundant storage under 500 bucks.
I have 6 of them in raid 5 using Linux md raid and it's been pretty solid. 4.5TB of fast redundant storage is pretty awesome.