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ipodminiman
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« on: November 26, 2010, 09:27:02 AM »
Hello everyone, Im looking to purchase 2 or 3 of a single hard drive to raid together and was having some trouble deciding which to get.

I think its between:

Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0350291

Spinpoint F3
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0340804

Barracuda 7200.12
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0331720


Im looking for drives that are fast and reliable and will be very fast in RAID. Im doing some HD capturing and I need the read/write speeds of the RAID to be pretty high.

The caviar blue is the cheapest, but Ive heard that the F3 is the fastest. Im hoping to hear what you guys think.


Thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2010, 09:57:59 AM »
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and you can get a 2TB External for less than $100
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2010, 10:00:13 AM »
Quote from: brarei200 on November 26, 2010, 09:57:59 AM
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and you can get a 2TB External for less than $100

OOPS! Fixed.

I know that, but in this case Im looking for speed over space.
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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2010, 10:28:18 AM »
Consider SSD before tossing money at the same 2 or 3 drives.
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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2010, 10:30:55 AM »
Quote from: kevipapo1 on November 26, 2010, 10:28:18 AM
Consider SSD before tossing money at the same 2 or 3 drives.

I did, but then I realized that for HD video, SSD's dont have enough space.
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2010, 11:38:20 AM »
WD Caviar Blacks. Great speeds for me
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« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2010, 11:16:03 AM »
Quote from: Haloruler64 on November 26, 2010, 11:38:20 AM
WD Caviar Blacks. Great speeds for me

Couldent afford them, I got the F3's instead. They work great so far [knock on wood] and I can hit ALMOST 400mb/s write speeds!
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« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2010, 11:22:42 AM »
NO. SSD's in Raid don't support trim and wear out fast. Well a few do, but they are few and far between.
Samsung F3's are what I woulda reccomended. They are absolutely great drives, the 1tb I have in my htpc works great especially for storage.
Personally the only thing I'd get an ssd for is a boot drive, otherwise I don't trust em much. What kind of budget do you have for this? What kind of RAID array did you end up putting them in?
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« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2010, 01:25:36 PM »
I hate SSD's, expensive, small, and really for most uses no real world difference in performance. My WD Caviar Black 500GB and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 High Performance 1.5TB drives are perfect.
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