2TB Drive advice

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RaithVZ

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So I'm thinking about picking a pair of these drives for my home rig.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136456

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this model, I don't intend to run it as a system drive. However, I would like to be able to stream movies from it and I'm not entirely sure if a 5400 rpm drive can do that seamlessly. Also, I'm not entirely sure about the relationship between platter configuration and longevity/stability, so I was hoping someone could shed some light on that as well.

Thanks for your time!
 
The WDC green 2TB can easily stream multiple HD streams. Even 19 Mbit mpeg2 ones. I have several of these in my HTPC.
 
What is with all this notion that 5400RPM is too slow? Probably what, 90% of laptops have 5400RPM HDDs? I haven't heard of a single person complain that they couldn't play videos off of their laptop HDD. For my greens, even at the slowest part of the platters they transferred at 50-60MB/s. That is enough for OVER TEN simultaneous streams of full quality RAW bluray rips.
 
palmboy5 said:
What is with all this notion that 5400RPM is too slow? Probably what, 90% of laptops have 5400RPM HDDs? I haven't heard of a single person complain that they couldn't play videos off of their laptop HDD.
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I think they think it says "5400Kbps"...
 
A raw blu-ray rip would require approximately 5% of the speed that that drive is capable of.
 
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