Best hard drive for Media PC

[LucasBaker]

I am looking for an internal hard drive to use in my Media PC. I am only going to use it to store and play 1080p movies. I'd like a capacity from 500gb to 1tb.

I was looking at this HDD but I'm not sure http://www.cclonline.com/product/90677/DT01ACA100/Hard-Drives/Toshiba-1TB-7200rpm-3-5-Internal-SATA-III-Hard-Drive/HDD1605/

 

[Andrew Buck]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Blue-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK is great for that.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

You want something with fast data thoroughput.... Seagate / Barracuda / Constellation tops the list at 7200 rpm holding the 2nd thru 6th positions

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2013/-01-Read-Throughput-Average-h2benchw-3.16,2901.html

The WD Black is 17th (4TB) /30th (2 TB).....WD Red is 23rd (4 TB) / 25th (2TB) .... WD Green is 40th (2TB) / 50th (1TB) ..... WD Blue is 52nd.

For video editing / multimedia ..... might wanna move to the Seagate SSHD
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2013/-14-PCMark-7-Windows-Media-Center-Performance,2912.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2013/-13-PCMark-7-Video-editing-using-Windows-Movie-Maker,2911.html