- March 3, 2011
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HI there,
Speedfan has just told me that there is a problem with Hard Drive and is on its way out (this is the drive that I use for recording and streaming, rather than just for storage of music etc).
It is a 1.5TB Western Digital AV-GP series. In hindsight, this was probably not my best buy as I read that despite these Hard Drives being designed specifically for constant use like in HTPCs they are not all that great - the throughput on them was the lowest in a group roundup I read somewhere and I note that the drive operates at a higher temperature than the others in my rig.
Bit of a bad time to have to get a new drive given current prices but I have no choice. I was just going to go and order a Samsung F4 2TB - have got one of these and it seems great, plus the 2TB size still seems to be around the sweet spot. My other option would be to perhaps to buy a 3TB hard drive to act as my new storage drive and start recording on my current F4.
What do you guys think?
Ultimately, should I go for a new 2TB hard drive and, if so, which one? Or do you think that price wise it might be worth considering a 3TB drive?
Thanks very much.
Alex
Speedfan has just told me that there is a problem with Hard Drive and is on its way out (this is the drive that I use for recording and streaming, rather than just for storage of music etc).
It is a 1.5TB Western Digital AV-GP series. In hindsight, this was probably not my best buy as I read that despite these Hard Drives being designed specifically for constant use like in HTPCs they are not all that great - the throughput on them was the lowest in a group roundup I read somewhere and I note that the drive operates at a higher temperature than the others in my rig.
Bit of a bad time to have to get a new drive given current prices but I have no choice. I was just going to go and order a Samsung F4 2TB - have got one of these and it seems great, plus the 2TB size still seems to be around the sweet spot. My other option would be to perhaps to buy a 3TB hard drive to act as my new storage drive and start recording on my current F4.
What do you guys think?
Ultimately, should I go for a new 2TB hard drive and, if so, which one? Or do you think that price wise it might be worth considering a 3TB drive?
Thanks very much.
Alex