Large hard drive recommendations please

[davehaze]

Hi all, would like some recommendations for a large hard drive with low power consumption to store downloads on. Looked at some Western Digital green drives in the 2 terabyte range that looked promising. Running Windows XP home edition (32bit) and was wondering if there would be any issues with the OS seeing and formatting these large drives? Thanks!

 

[mmmmmdonuts]

I would recommend the Samsung F4. It is faster than the WD green drives and should consume around the same power (I don't have numbers for you on this though). Just make sure you update the firmware. It's cheaper and faster.

I own the WD Green (EADS and EARS) and F4's and I personally like the F4's better. What worries me about the WD Green drives is the super high load cycle count that these drives tend to get very quickly so I took them out of my server and am now using F4's in there instead.