Which internal harddrive should I get?

[yves d]

I have a 250 gb ssd in my desktop pc and am looking for an internal harddrive to put footage in and work off of.

Is there any specific type that I should look for or is any internal drive on amazon ok? Do the RPM's matter? Does NAS matter?

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Are you wanting an ssd or spinning drive? m2, u2, 2.5'? Single drive or are you making a raid?

if your looking for single 2.5" the samsung 850 evo are good and go up to 4tb
for an m2 the samsung 960 are good evo are good

My little mini itx pc has a m2 boot and 2.5" storage drive

 

[Billy Jim]

I would appreciate hearing opinions on which 8-10TB Helium 3.5" spinning hard drives to get (HGST or Seagate)

to go inside 2010 Mac Pro.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

The 8~10TB units have not been on the market long enough to establish reliability parameters. So I would say either is a fair bet at this point. NAS drives are designed for moderate performance loads in RAID configured NAS (network attached storage) systems. You’re much better off to go with the higher performance workstation / or performance RAID tuned drives. They’re typically the same drive hardware, but with firmware having slight tweaks or tunings for different purposes. You’ll need to RAID 3 or more of those drives together to get reasonable performance to actually work with your footage. And even then, the RAID arrangement you pick has a lot to do with performance. If you have a good means of keeping them backed up, then 3 of them in a RAID-0 set is a nice price/performance balance. And 4 of them in your Mac Pro if all your drive bays are open. You will be limited to about 680~750MB/s if running all the drives off the onboard SATA host. Which is about all you’re going to squeeze out of 4 of those units under the most ideal conditions anyway.

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

4TB drives still seem to be the sweet spot in terms of price.

 

[Cole Sprague]

I would avoid the Western Digital NAS drives I've had all three of them fail on me in the last 8 months.

 

[L. Langer]

You need a pro-grade, workstation HDD. WD and Seagate both have product lines for that. Anything else means you're taking a chance. Right now, the reliability/capacity threshold is at 6TB, so I'd go with 4TB drives because they are the easiest to come by/replace, are reliable, and give the most bang for your bucks.

 

[Tim Gerhard]

My company is in the data recovery space for hard drives and I can say that Seagate drives are one of the worst brands. Seagates fail the most and also are harder to repair in general. I recommend Western Digital or Toshiba these days for reliability and ease of recovery if something does go wrong.

 

[Samir Patel]

My company is in the data recovery space for hard drives and I can say that Seagate drives are one of the worst brands. Seagates fail the most and also are harder to repair in general. I recommend Western Digital or Toshiba these days for reliability and ease of recovery if something does go wrong.

Gave up on Seagate years ago. Every single Seagate drive I ever had failed.

 

[Marc Wielage]

The 8~10TB units have not been on the market long enough to establish reliability parameters. So I would say either is a fair bet at this point.

Actually, Backblaze just released some fairly exhaustive hard drive reliability reports, and they did include some 8TB models:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/

They seem to indicate that 8TB is the new sweet spot for cost, performance, and reliability, at least in servers.