Which of these 2tb drive

[phillyman36]

What do you think is the safest bet of the two

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136506

The Wd has an extended warranty with newegg (extra 20 buck)for a year

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152202

Newegg doesn't have an extened warranty for the Samsung but its new
I need a good reliable 2tb hard drive to put inside an Dune media player

 

[Blain]

Of Those Two HD's... Buy the Samsung
Large capacity means you intend to keep lots of data for a while. "Recertified" with an extra year tagged on is "false economy".

 

[railman]

Since you are using this in a Dune media player I would think that this drive will be in use for extended time periods so if I were you I would be looking for a drive that would benefit that invironment. WD makes drives designed specifically for Audio Video use they are called AV drives. 2 models exist WD AV-GP and WD AV the only difference is that the AV-GP model is a green drive that will give you some power savings.

Good Luck

 

[phillyman36]

Ok thanks for the suggestions i decided to go with a new drive and ordered the Samsung 2tb drive. Then i cancelled it to look into the av dives and the Wd ears drives (bad reviews on newegg seem to be the eads ones)

 

[railman]

Wise decision, it is best to always get the right tool for the job at hand.

 

[phillyman36]

Very hard to find one in stock

 

[Voo]

Wise decision, it is best to always get the right tool for the job at hand.

And what exactly is the difference between these drives? After all the disk just saves bytes, whatever I do with them isn't of any interest to it. So are they just quieter? That could be interesting for more than just AV though..

 

[railman]

AV drives are designed to operate in a always on 24/7 environment like that of surveilence security use so they can withstand long periods of working. In normal use on a PC once a PC is booted if the user opens lets say a browser window once that happens the HDD goes to an idle state until the user does something that requires to HDD to read or write again. An AV drive in a media serving or surveilence environment could/would be actually reading/writing on a continous basis thus the need for a drive designed to do so. Seagate has a line of these drive as well if you prefer them. I am not sure about other makers but visiting the manufacturer web sites should prove beneficial in checking.

 

[Voo]

In normal use on a PC once a PC is booted if the user opens lets say a browser window once that happens the HDD goes to an idle state until the user does something that requires to HDD to read or write again.

Wouldn't that solely depend if and what power saving features are used? I know lots of people who don't let their drives spin down, because it's rather annoying if you have to wait for the drive to start again (and at least my seagate makes some click noise while it's doing it) and I haven't heart that this influences the lifetime negativley.

But other than that, this means these drives are essentially the same as the good old drives that are certified for continous operation (say the ES drives from seagate, etc.) and just got another name sticked on them?