HDD to record gameplay on

[o1oo1]

Hey guys, can you recommend me a HDD to record gameplay on. preferably in the 1 TB range. does not need to be very quiet but fast and reliable

[iRawPeanut]

WD Black's?

[TheYonderGod]

WD Black's?

^ or a blue if you want to save some money and they're more than $5-10 cheaper at the time/place of purchase.

[iRawPeanut]

WD Black's?

^ or a blue if you want to save some money and they're more than $5-10 cheaper at the time/place of purchase.

He said he just wanted them to be fast en reliable... no price..

So WD Black's... Because they're faster

[TheYonderGod]

WD Black's?

^ or a blue if you want to save some money and they're more than $5-10 cheaper at the time/place of purchase.

He said he just wanted them to be fast en reliable... no price..

So WD Black's... Because they're faster

The "^" was me agreeing with you.

[iRawPeanut]

WD Black's?

He said he just wanted them to be fast en reliable... no price..

So WD Black's... Because they're faster

The "^" was me agreeing with you.

Then I apologize for not seeing that, then

[Bock]

Samsung Spinpoint F3 or WD Black.

[Kuchenfari]

I was considering getting the 2TB WD Green 7200, what do you guys think about that one?

[TheYonderGod]

I was considering getting the 2TB WD Green 7200, what do you guys think about that one?

Green is slow. It might be enough though, depending on what program you're using to record and what resolution/quality.

Samsung Spinpoint F3 or WD Black.

Seagate bought Samsung's HDD division, Spinpoint F3s are now just Barracudas

[Kuchenfari]

how is one 7200rpm 64mb cache hdd different from another? sry, but I don't get how that's supposed to be a real difference. Also, what write speeds are we talking about here?

[Fields]

Pretty much any modern sata drive should work fine. I use a USB 2.0 external drive, and it's never had any problems.

[expandas]

Toms Hardware has a series of benchmarks on hard drives for 2012. One of their benchmarks covers sequential write speeds, the sort of thing recording footage would be heavily dependent on.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd- ... ,2904.html

According to their data, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 series drives offer tremendous performance/dollar. Seagate has had a bad reputation in the past for defective hard drives but I trust that they've been able to address it in the past five or so years since the incident.

Name: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB
Model Number: ST1000DM003
Web page: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-dr ... T1000DM003

I agree with Fields. My 2.5" external hard drive was able to record BF3 footage at 30FPS 720p using Dxtory's YUV410 settings without problems. After I hooked it up via USB3, I was even able to record in raw RGB. If you want to record an entire battleday's worth of footage (~300 minutes), you're going to run into space problems long before you run into write speed problems.

[TheYonderGod]

how is one 7200rpm 64mb cache hdd different from another? sry, but I don't get how that's supposed to be a real difference. Also, what write speeds are we talking about here?

Different platter sizes/densities, different read/write heads and controllers, etc.
My newish blue gets about 150 MB/s sequential read/write
My older green gets about 80 MB/s (newer ones should be a little bit faster though)

[knorren]

Get the one with the best price. It won't matter if its 5400, 5900 or 7200rpm for what you are gonna do.
I would probably get one of the "low power" discs cause they usually are more quiet and produce less heat inside your case.

[o1oo1]

ok so i've come down to

WD1002FAEX-126MB/s(Sustained transfer rate) - 5 year warranty - 83.50 €
ST1000DM003 -210MB/s(Sustained transfer rate) - 2 year warranty - 65.70 €
HGST 0A39289 - 134MB/s(Sustained transfer rate) - 5 year warranty (enterprise model) - 82.25 €

im leaning towards the hitachi one tbh.

e: ordered the seagate