Best hard drive for recording?

[PotatoeGamerz]

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

sounds good, and thank you again for all your help (and flammy)[DOUBLEPOST=1369167831,1369167787][/DOUBLEPOST]thank you everyone for your help and I hope everyone has a good day
-Nuclear Hamster

 

[Lilikoi Juice]

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.

There are currently no SSD's over 1 TB. The largest you can get is 960 GB but it will cost you an arm, leg, and $599.00. You can get two of those if you really want up to 2TB but that will be very pricey.

I am using a HDD and SSD (Crucial M500) in my new computer I will be building. That may be a more cost-friendly option for you.

 

[Flammy]

Here: pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/

You can select all of the options plus sort by price per size which is the best measure. I'd only bother with 500GB+, ideally 2TB or so.

 

[PotatoeGamerz]

Here: pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/

You can select all of the options plus sort by price per size which is the best measure. I'd only bother with 500GB+, ideally 2TB or so.

awesome thanks man
-Nuclear Hamster

 

[PotatoeGamerz]

thank your everyone for your advice on the best recording hard drive!!!! after reading all your comments and doing some research on my I own I have finally decided to get a 1 TB western digital black hard drive with 7500 RPM's and 64 mb cache. this seems to best bang for my buck currently!! once again thanks to everyone to your input and now i will finally be able to record more then one vid at the same time
-Nuclear Hamster

 

[Parallax Abstraction]

thank your everyone for your advice on the best recording hard drive!!!! after reading all your comments and doing some research on my I own I have finally decided to get a 1 TB western digital black hard drive with 7500 RPM's and 64 mb cache. this seems to best bang for my buck currently!! once again thanks to everyone to your input and now i will finally be able to record more then one vid at the same time
-Nuclear Hamster

That will do you very well. I generally don't recommend SSDs for video recording because the frequent writes will wear it out quickly and if you've got a decently beefy system, even recording at 1080p shouldn't overstress a physical hard drive, as long as it's 7,200RPM and has a large buffer (and getting less than 64MB is becoming rare.) One piece of advice I can offer to everyone is don't use Western Digital Green Series hard drives or the equivalent energy-saving models from other manufacturers. I was using one of these for a little while and they're a pain as well, they're designed to save energy (not that hard drives take much anyway) and it results in much slower reads and writes. My intro sequence (which is in 1080p) was unable to play off that drive without dropping frames. On my new Seagate 7,200RPM 64MB drive, not a blip.

 

[JohnMur]

I like to avoid WD if possible, have had some trouble in the past, though I think they've improved. I use G-Drives from G-Technology, very solid build and good connectivity.