Good 1 to 2tb HDD for recording video onto?

[JayyyKB]

Hi
I've been wanting to record the games I play but my two main drives are pretty full and don't have the greatest write speed I also don't want to have to worry about it getting full or having to delete things to make room, I'm looking for a 1tb or 2tb hard drive with a good write speed for a good price, just little confused with how to know what hard drive has a good Mbps write speed.

Thanks

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there JayyyKB,

Well, I believe you should aim at a 7200 RPM drive. What are the specs of your current drives?
The thing is that, you will not really experience noticeable performance difference among mechanical drives, if we assume that they have similar specs. (capacity, RPM, cache)
Keep in mind that they may not reach advertised/or some benchmark speeds, as they are done in a perfect environment.

As a WD rep, I can give you just some WD drive suggestions. Of course, it would be a really nice idea to wait for some more users to engage in the thread.

You can take a look at both WD Blue (7200 RPM version) and WD Black 1 TB drives.
WD Blue, is a nice everyday computing drive: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=xJTw7d
WD Black is premium, performance oriented product, that comes with 5 years of limited warranty and features a dual core processor for better multitasking: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=YUcY5r

Let me know in case you have some more questions,
D_Know_WD

 

[Dragos Manea]

If you take good care of them any big brand hdd is good, from WD i recomend the blue drive, best bang for the buck, from seagate i recomend the baracuda series, right now in my pc i have 3x2 TB seagate baracuda in raid 0 array, really happy with them, until this i had 2 WD blue 500 gb and 2 wd blue 1tb same thing i had no issue with them, only issue i had in the past with WD when 3 drives failed one after another but now i m starting to thing it was because my cheap chinsse psu.

 

[nancylove]

Choose hard disk with high RPM and high density.
Most people won't ever bother with hard disk data density when shopping for a new drive, but it has a real-world effect on HDD speed.