Recomended Hard Disk

[Ben Edwards]

Looks like the Seagate Barracuda are verry good – https://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2012/-01-Read-Throughput-Average-h2benchw-3.16,2901.html – think this is what I should go for.

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Ben Edwards – Freelance Picture Editor
https://www.funkytwig.com

[Chris Borjis]

Thats a great drive, I have one on my home system.

[Ben Edwards]

Thanks, since then I have read people finding Seagates dying (I have a dead 1TB one myself) so was thinning the Samsung f£ may be a good (and cheaper) option.

Ben

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Ben Edwards – Freelance Picture Editor
https://www.funkytwig.com

i5 550, Windows 7 / Mac Lion, Nvida 550 Ti, 8GB Mem

[Nevin Styre]

I like the western digital black edition drives. Fast, robust and made to handle intensive read/write applications.

[Alan Peil]

I use the Seagate Barracuda drives in my system. Three 1TB drives in a raid 0 gets me these results in BM Disk Speed Test:

[Ben Edwards]

Yes, I have come across them but they are a lot more expensive. 139 vs 78 for Barracuda. I am simple trying to find something that is OK for DSLR footage and am on a bit of a budget.

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Ben Edwards – Freelance Picture Editor
https://www.funkytwig.com

i5 550, Windows 7 / Mac Lion, Nvida 550 Ti, 8GB Mem

[Greg Baber]

If you want strong performance, your best bet is to use a RAID configuration.

Greg Baber, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Creative Cloud Expert – DVA

[Chris Borjis]

Ben there might be a few bad apples…er drives…thats par for the course.

I know a lot of people use the Seagates with trouble free operation.
They also have a good warranty period.

[Jim Wiseman]

You should check out Other World Computing for drives. Here is their page for pre-configured two drive RAIDs that should meet your requirements. You will want one with eSATA for best performance. Firewire 800 will limit you to 80mB/sec. I have several of the dual port eSATA Mercury Elite Pros that will give you 250mB/sec with the included dual port 6G eSATA card. It is the bottom config on this page. I put the drives in myself and ordered the Hitachi drives and the box separately. I have 15 of the 2 TB ones and they have been flawless. I am not sure what drives are in the pre-configured ones, but you can see what they carry in their bare drive section or give them a call. Their support is excellent. https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Mercury-EliteAL-Pro-RAID

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe