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Western Digital or Seagate
Keitaro08:
I was keen on Seagate before they bought Maxtor. Since then, their HDDs are crappy.
WD are way better, excepted for the green series.... The Re series are really best in their classes.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Keitaro08 on August 02, 2012, 07:47:40 PM ---I was keen on Seagate before they bought Maxtor. Since then, their HDDs are crappy.
WD are way better, excepted for the green series.... The Re series are really best in their classes.
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Which one are you referring to?
RE or RE SAS? Those are internal and i want external but thanks :)
And now i am glad i gave up on My book Studio Edition 2... it uses Caviar Green Drives only. :o
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Keitaro08 on August 02, 2012, 07:47:40 PM ---I was keen on Seagate before they bought Maxtor. Since then, their HDDs are crappy.
WD are way better, excepted for the green series.... The Re series are really best in their classes.
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Green series is ONLY good for media playback and NOTHING else. So if you want to play music off of it or you want to store videos on it or pictures, then that's good for it. If you're looking to WORK from it like on PhotoShop, MEGUI, Vegas Pro, or install programs on it, or run your Operation System off of it, or use it for RAM HDD (or whatever it is called) or anything then that's the wrong series and it will utterly fail sooner or later.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 03, 2012, 03:13:57 AM ---Green series is ONLY good for media playback and NOTHING else. So if you want to play music off of it or you want to store videos on it or pictures, then that's good for it. If you're looking to WORK from it like on PhotoShop, MEGUI, Vegas Pro, or install programs on it, or run your Operation System off of it, or use it for RAM HDD (or whatever it is called) or anything then that's the wrong series and it will utterly fail sooner or later.
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I do play a few games... but that is a rarity...
Green is highly unreliable if it is like you say.
Imagine playing a 1080p anime with a bitrate of 10000kbps.... i guess the data inflow/outflow would be almost the same as for game... and this on a regular basis... it will fail soon like you said.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 03, 2012, 03:08:45 AM ---Those are internal and i want external but thanks :)
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You can always get an internal drive and an external enclosure. That way, you know what drive is going into your hardware. Internal drives are usually more consistent in terms of failures too, and so it's generally easier to judge the reliability of internal drives over external ones.
People always worry about external enclosures, but in all honesty, it's a two-minute job to assemble one. If you know how to use a screwdriver and to keep yourself free of static electricity, you're already 95% done.
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 03, 2012, 03:22:39 AM ---Green is highly unreliable if it is like you say.
Imagine playing a 1080p anime with a bitrate of 10000kbps.... i guess the data inflow/outflow would be almost the same as for game... and this on a regular basis... it will fail soon like you said.
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Green is not unreliable. It is just not recommended for applications where performance is a requirement. If it's just for data storage that is always on but not accessed often, it will save electricity in the long run, because it's designed to spin down when idle for long periods of time.
Playing video or any kind of media is not the same as running a game. Generally, when you play back a media file, you read it from beginning to end. When running a game or some data-heavy application, you access data that is scattered over the disk, so you experience greater delays as you seek for the data. That's why 1080p playback can be smooth even if it's accessing data at a higher rate than a game that lags a lot.
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