Best hard drive for recording?

[PotatoeGamerz]

hey guys/gals I am in the market for a new hard drive for recording(mine current one is only 500 gb) . I am wondering which you guys prefer or recommend so i can get some ideas on what to get.
thank you for the!!!

-nuclear hamster

 

[Arleth Smith]

get a ssd

 

[GafferGames]

If you record large files in bulk, and never delete videos, get a large HDD, if you delete videos often and can suffer a smaller file capacity, get an SSD.

 

[Flammy]

Really only a few options:

Size, Cost, and Type.

Size is pretty obvious.
Cost is pretty obvious, too.

Type is HDD or SSD. SDD is flash memory, while HDD are normal spinning hard drives. If you don't know anything more about them, they are faster to both read and write but are more expensive. If your processor / graphical process is top notch, then your bottleneck in processing might be in the read/write speed, beyond that I would say just get a few HDDs.

Note: It is good practice to save your raw files on one HDD, then save the exported file onto a different one so you aren't reading and writing from the same hard drive at the same time.

I should also say brand really doesn't matter. Who you are buying it from provides the warranty.

 

[42BHOGaming]

Probably a western digital 2TB hard drive

 

[PotatoeGamerz]

get a ssd

which one would you recommend? because they are seem expensive for the amount of space they have. I am looking for something around 2TB so I have plenty of room for recording.

-Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369166748,1369166198][/DOUBLEPOST]

Really only a few options:

Size, Cost, and Type.

Size is pretty obvious.
Cost is pretty obvious, too.

Type is HDD or SSD. SDD is flash memory, while HDD are normal spinning hard drives. If you don't know anything more about them, they are faster to both read and write but are more expensive. If your processor / graphical process is top notch, then your bottleneck in processing might be in the read/write speed, beyond that I would say just get a few HDDs.

Note: It is good practice to save your raw files on one HDD, then save the exported file onto a different one so you aren't reading and writing from the same hard drive at the same time.

I should also say brand really doesn't matter. Who you are buying it from provides the warranty.

thanks for the help, I will definitely get an HDD for my computer.
-Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369167091][/DOUBLEPOST]

If you record large files in bulk, and never delete videos, get a large HDD, if you delete videos often and can suffer a smaller file capacity, get an SSD.

thanks for the help, I record a large amount but at the same time I also delete a large amount of video, would HDD or SSS be better?
- Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369167138][/DOUBLEPOST]

Probably a western digital 2TB hard drive

thanks for the input, is western digital a good company for HDD?

 

[42BHOGaming]

which one would you recommend? because they are seem expensive for the amount of space they have. I am looking for something around 2TB so I have plenty of room for recording.

-Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369166748,1369166198][/DOUBLEPOST]

thanks for the help, I will definitely get an HDD for my computer.
-Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369167091][/DOUBLEPOST]
thanks for the help, I record a large amount but at the same time I also delete a large amount of video, would HDD or SSS be better?
- Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369167138][/DOUBLEPOST]
thanks for the input, is western digital a good company for HDD?

Yes they are a very good company

 

[PotatoeGamerz]

Yes they are a very good company

any specific ones that you would recommend?

 

[GafferGames]

which one would you recommend? because they are seem expensive for the amount of space they have. I am looking for something around 2TB so I have plenty of room for recording.

-Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369166748,1369166198][/DOUBLEPOST]

thanks for the help, I will definitely get an HDD for my computer.
-Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369167091][/DOUBLEPOST]
thanks for the help, I record a large amount but at the same time I also delete a large amount of video, would HDD or SSS be better?
- Nuclear Hamster[DOUBLEPOST=1369167138][/DOUBLEPOST]
thanks for the input, is western digital a good company for HDD?

Well, as Flammy said if you have a top notch processor it will bottleneck anyway, so go with him

 

[42BHOGaming]

I would go with a caviar black