Hard drive choice

[boxterduke]

Hello all,

I want to get two hard drives that will be used to store my ripped DVD movies. For now they will be installed inside the HTPC as seperate drives meaning no RAID or any other disk management.

I narrowed it down to Seagate or WD 1.5TB drives.

Seagate: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
WD: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136351

In the furture I might get a Drobo to install these drives in. Now I've read reviews about the WD Green drives that because of their low poer consumption, they tend to spin down sooner than normal drives and in the case of RIAD or something like a Drobo, this could kill the drives since they might not take the overhead of a RAID or a Drobo.

Anyone had any experience with this.

Which would be a better drive, the Seagate or the Drobo? I checked reviews and both have their share of pros and cons.

Thanks for the input.