Best hard drive for post?

[Jason Ing]

I don't need a lot of storage for now (just doing tests, shorts, music video), but I know I'll eventually have to build up so I need to buy and think of the future. I'd like to get a few internal hard drives that I could pop into either my mac, pc, or a future external storage solution.

I don't know all the tech things to look for, but I do know throughput is important.

I'm thinking of getting 2 of the internal Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB Sata drives. And then I'll buy more later, raid them, etc. etc.

http://www.pcworld.com/product/specs/id,30780/seagate_barracuda_720011_1tb_sata.html

Good? Thoughts? Something better?

Thanks!

 

[Wayne D]

use sata myself (4x320) internal - rock solid.

only thing i have ever had happen with the saegate is they over heated and shut down.......but this was in a flyaway kit in remote australia with dust and heat a pleanty.

 

[David Wyatt]

We use CalDigit, Raid 5, loads of storage, very fast...maybe overkill for you but it's very reliable.

 

[Charles Angus]

WD 640 GB.

Very fast, and cheap - bought mine at macsales.com for $85 each.

Two disk RAID 0 - little over 200MB/s. Four disk RAID would fly.

 

[Alex Carr]

The only other Drive I would suggest is the Samsung 1TB because they have 32mb cache. WD I've had some die on me, never a seagate that I didnt intentionally drill a hole through myself.

If you need speed there are dozens of e-sata Raid 0 - 5 Disk arrays that get you closer to 300/ Mbs.

 

[David Birdy]

Check out Facilis,

They make solid, reliable storage units that operates in a cross platform configuration with flexable redundancy.

Dave

 

[david farland]

Always use seagate...with no problems. Bought some Samsungs the other day on the advice of sales rep. He'd just got them in and they were 20% faster. He'd sold 120 with 3 returns. I bought 4, 1 failed. Took them back and exchanged for Seagates. He had no seagate returns in the same period.
I normally go for raid 0 with another raid 0 external backup. And I backup often/always. It's a risk thing where you gotta determine the impact if 'anything' blows.
Dave,

 

[Paul Hazlett]

we bought 10 seagates and 3 went down. Any hard drive can have problems.
I have been happy so far with enterprise class hitachi's more expensive built better. they are what Red uses in the Raid.

 

[Shawn Nelson]

Seagate and Samsung for me

 

[Esteban Sosnitsky]

4TB internal esata seagate. rock solid.

 

[Alexander Christ]

We use Western Digital Enterprise Drives in our RAID and Mac Pros, reliable and fast: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=2

 

[Jason Ing]

Thanks everyone!