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<blockquote data-quote="elconejito" data-source="post: 741299" data-attributes="member: 12592">I'm keeping an eye out for HDD deals as well. For what it's worth, I've been running some WD Green drives as the recording drives for probably about a year now. a 500GB EACS, then a 1TB EADS, currently back on the 500GB when the 1TB died (mental note: I need to RMA it). Before getting the Colossus I was running 2 Avermedia Combo PCI-e cards which each have an ATSC and NTSC tuner. So I was recording up to 4 channels (2 HD &amp; 2 SD) at once. The only time I had any HDD issues was when MP would auto-create a thumbnail by scanning the multi-GB file (glad I finally found the checkbox to turn *that* off). So I'm wondering if the green drive can keep up with 4 HD streams, up from 2HD+2SD. If so, you can save a few bucks on a normal/green/eco samsung/hitachi because the WD Black 2TB drives are really pricey (IMO). If it can't keep up, I'm going to end up buying a new 2TB samsung/hitachi to put in my desktop and take the 1TB WD Black I have in there and migrate it to my MPPC. I'm pretty quick to compress recordings I plan on keeping so I don't use up that much space on the drives. Only enough to cover a few days at most.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elconejito, post: 741299, member: 12592"] I'm keeping an eye out for HDD deals as well. For what it's worth, I've been running some WD Green drives as the recording drives for probably about a year now. a 500GB EACS, then a 1TB EADS, currently back on the 500GB when the 1TB died (mental note: I need to RMA it). Before getting the Colossus I was running 2 Avermedia Combo PCI-e cards which each have an ATSC and NTSC tuner. So I was recording up to 4 channels (2 HD & 2 SD) at once. The only time I had any HDD issues was when MP would auto-create a thumbnail by scanning the multi-GB file (glad I finally found the checkbox to turn *that* off). So I'm wondering if the green drive can keep up with 4 HD streams, up from 2HD+2SD. If so, you can save a few bucks on a normal/green/eco samsung/hitachi because the WD Black 2TB drives are really pricey (IMO). If it can't keep up, I'm going to end up buying a new 2TB samsung/hitachi to put in my desktop and take the 1TB WD Black I have in there and migrate it to my MPPC. I'm pretty quick to compress recordings I plan on keeping so I don't use up that much space on the drives. Only enough to cover a few days at most. [/QUOTE]

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