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Best 1TB-2TB Value Hard Drive?
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2TB Western Digital Green EARS model. You can get it for $70 shipped, the drive has 64MB cache, and can give you sustained 125 MB/s read and write throughputs (fyi, raw uncompressed 1920x1080 video with audio is about 90 MB/s).
There is also the 1TB Western Digital Green EARX model for $65 shipped, has 64MB cache, and I don't know what kind of sustained throughputs they are capable of.
I personally have a 2TB EARS and it is amazing. I didn't realize just how amazing it was until like 6-7 months ago even though I bought mine last year (because I basically just popped it in, formatted, and didn't really use it).
There is also the 1TB Western Digital Green EARX model for $65 shipped, has 64MB cache, and I don't know what kind of sustained throughputs they are capable of.
I personally have a 2TB EARS and it is amazing. I didn't realize just how amazing it was until like 6-7 months ago even though I bought mine last year (because I basically just popped it in, formatted, and didn't really use it).
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drescherjm
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I have the EARS 2TB, Samsung F4 2TB and Hitachi 5K3000 2TB (actually several of each). The WDC EARS is about 20 to 25MB/s slower than the other two across the entire disk but not like that matters for an htpc.
drescherjm
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I would recommend any of the drives I mentioned for this purpose.
I highly recommend the EARS Green. I have 8 of them and they are rock solid. They are really meant for backups and things of that nature, but they work great for this purpose also. I use mine for backups and a media server.
Their Enterprise black version is also fricken nice. $200, but it's 2TB and beats the velociraptor in almost very category.
Their Enterprise black version is also fricken nice. $200, but it's 2TB and beats the velociraptor in almost very category.