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Western Digital or Seagate
raandomer:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 07, 2012, 09:40:41 AM ---I don't think i'll be moving it around much... More like from My table to the almirah
The enclosures are a problem though...
I don't know where to get one from... Or how should one be
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No, I dont mean to get an enclosure and whatnot, just whack it in the computer and be done with it. Plus its easier to diagnose if something goes wrong. I really dont understand why people would buy an external for intensive (ie 24/7 seeding) usage when the cheaper option (shoving a 3.5 in the pc) is faster + safer. And you have those power cords/psu flying everywhere
Dhruv:
^well shoving it in a computer is a better option but you need one for it...
I have a laptop... There are 2 internals which i can use like this.. Caviar Green & AV-GP
Red can also be used but that is an NAS drive...
For external i'd take Elements anyday...
All Of them come in 3TB capacity and i need storage...
If i need performance i'd look no further than velociraptor.
All Of them are western digital drives.. I already have a seagate but seagate is shit and i was lucky enough to get a drive from their last good batch :P
raandomer:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 09, 2012, 06:09:08 AM ---^well shoving it in a computer is a better option but you need one for it...
I have a laptop...
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seeding + laptop doesnt go together either, you really should get a low powered headless itx as a seedbox/media sever (even a raspberry pi/torrent enabled router would easily work)
--- Quote ---seagate is shit
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so is wd, samsung(now owned by seagate), hatachi, etc
they all have doa/bad drives, its the nature of consumer level hard drives. I've been through many drives from many companies and i can say they all have pretty much equal chance of failing (obviously i'm comparing drives with similar tech and similar workloads/operating conditions). There are only very rare cases where a complete line has high failure rate: the seagate 7200.11 firmware, wd green drives in raid, ibm deathstars (~2001 if i remember correctly)
Keitaro08:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 03, 2012, 03:08:45 AM ---
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
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RE or RE SAS same good stuff. We use them on light servers, never had a crash for now!!!
--- 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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Nope, some green series are god even on servers. But most series park their heads too quickly, thus wearing them too fast... So, avoid the green WDs, even on meda reading (especially MP3s, great parking rate)
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Keitaro08 on August 09, 2012, 09:53:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dhruv on August 03, 2012, 03:08:45 AM ---
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
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RE or RE SAS same good stuff. We use them on light servers, never had a crash for now!!!
--- 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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Nope, some green series are god even on servers. But most series park their heads too quickly, thus wearing them too fast... So, avoid the green WDs, even on meda reading (especially MP3s, great parking rate)
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... Someone translate what this person said. I don't understand what they said.
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