Looking for 2TB Internal Hard Drive For Videos

[endoftheline2]

I'm looking for a Looking for a 2TB Internal Hard Drive to use primary for storing and playing back 1080P videos. I'm looking for pretty good performance since I'll be copying a lot of videos to it and playing back many 1080P videos.

I've been looking on newegg and amazon and most of the 2TB internal HD's that I'm finding seem to be some sort of power saving green drive, also newegg doesn't seem to specify if they are 5400rpm or 7200rpm, I' hoping that they are 7200rpm?

I'm looking to get a Western Digital or other brand and avoid a Seagate due to some problems with their drives over 1TB.

In the reasonable price range (like under $200) I've found these two Western Digital Drives, which look good, EXCEPT newegg does not say if they are 7200rpm, and many of the reviews say that they are a bit slow, and not to use them for programs. I would really only be using for Videos, still I do not want a slow drive.

Western Digital AV-GP WD20EVDS
[Used in a lot of Tivos it seems]
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136494

Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS
[Looks good but people say it may be slow]
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136514

I do not want to buy a Green power saving drive in particular, as I just care about the performance, however I am looking in this price range, and it seems the best 2TB caviar black Western Digital Drives are $279.

Does anyone have any ideas on these two drives or another 2TB Internal Hard Drive that would be good for Mostly Video Usage?

 

[poofyhairguy]

The Seagate problem was a one drive with firmware problems (the 7200 RPM 1.5TB model), and honestly the reason it turned into such a mess was because the firmware installer got onto the net without many safety precautions (aka it did not check if the drive was the correct one before it installed itself) and tons of idiots installed it on drives that didn't need it, ruining those drives.

I have over 20TB of data and a ton a drives: two 1.5 TB WD Green drives. 8 of the aforementioned 1.5TB 7200 rpm drives, two Seagate 1.5TB 5400RPM drives, four 2.0 TB 7200RPM Hitachi drives. One drive of every single group went bad on me (or came DOA) and needed to be RMAed- with drives this large there is no guaranteed safe option.

What you need to do is choose a decent one based on price, then do a full range of testing once you get it to make sure yours isn't a dud. I wouldn't try to pick one over another based on brand- ALL can have failures. You are just hurting your pocketbook if you limit your options based on heresay.

Personally if I was gonna recommend one for you I would recommend one of my Hitachi drives:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-298-_-Product

Very fast, not as hot as my Seagates.

 

[jjmIII]

The Seagate problem was a one drive with firmware problems (the 7200 RPM 1.5TB model)....

Those Seabaits are still dying. I think it is safe to say they are junk no matter which firmware. I had fresh RMAs that were junk!

OP, the Samsung looks good for you IMO.

 

[endoftheline2]

The Seagate problem was a one drive with firmware problems (the 7200 RPM 1.5TB model), and honestly the reason it turned into such a mess was because the firmware installer got onto the net without many safety precautions (aka it did not check if the drive was the correct one before it installed itself) and tons of idiots installed it on drives that didn't need it, ruining those drives.

I have over 20TB of data and a ton a drives: two 1.5 TB WD Green drives. 8 of the aforementioned 1.5TB 7200 rpm drives, two Seagate 1.5TB 5400RPM drives, four 2.0 TB 7200RPM Hitachi drives. One drive of every single group went bad on me (or came DOA) and needed to be RMAed- with drives this large there is no guaranteed safe option.

What you need to do is choose a decent one based on price, then do a full range of testing once you get it to make sure yours isn't a dud. I wouldn't try to pick one over another based on brand- ALL can have failures. You are just hurting your pocketbook if you limit your options based on heresay.

Personally if I was gonna recommend one for you I would recommend one of my Hitachi drives:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-298-_-Product

Very fast, not as hot as my Seagates.

The Hitachi looks really good, but I am hesitant about the noise, can you really notice the noise over a already semi-loud system with multiple fans etc (as my system is normally)

 

[pjkenned]

The Hitachi looks really good, but I am hesitant about the noise, can you really notice the noise over a already semi-loud system with multiple fans etc (as my system is normally)

The Hitachi's are great (I have about 20TB worth right now). The Seagate 1.5TB's 7200.11 drives (about 25-30TB worth now) have all been fine with new firmware. WD Greens, I had to RMA 3 of 8 1.5TB greens by week two of burn-in. Since then they have all worked fine.

I would reccomend the Hitachi's though. They just work and are cheap. Not the fastest, but they work. Are they louder than "Green" drives, yes. Realistically, they aren't that bad though. Power wise, just think about green v. non-green as 2w per drive. So every 500 hours it is 1kw or a few cents worth of electricity.

 

[tcsenter]

Raid-1 ftw.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Those Seabaits are still dying. I think it is safe to say they are junk no matter which firmware. I had fresh RMAs that were junk!

As I noted I have a pile (8) of the drives that got Seagate into such problems and they run great for me for over a year now for some of them. I like it when people like yourself steer clear of them as then I can pick up decent fast storage on the cheap!

Large hard drives can go dead from any manufacturer, which is why getting one with a decent warranty matters!!!

 

[poofyhairguy]

The Hitachi looks really good, but I am hesitant about the noise, can you really notice the noise over a already semi-loud system with multiple fans etc (as my system is normally)

They are not incredibly loud. Are they louder than my 500GB OS drives? Sure! But not by enough that anyone with a normal PC will be able to hear it over the fans. It is worth it for the speed- these drives are FAST which is what you need for video especially if you plan on having multiple frontends in the future!

It is only loud compared to my silent ION rig...

 

[C1]

The local Fry's Electronics has the 7200 rpm 2TB Hitachi Deskstar HDDs on sale now (boxed) for $125. I have a couple & they are okay.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I've got one of the HGST 2TB 7200rpm drives its the first non WD HDD i've bought in a while and it seems to work reasonably well, I'm using it to back up my 2 1tb WD black drives & it's not quite as fast but it still seems reasonable.