Which Drives for DVD/Music Storage

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First sorry if this gets asked a lot :p

I Intend to rip all my DVD's/Blurays and store them on my PC so I can stream them to the PS3 and to my iPhone (via Air Video) and need some fair size drives to accommodate all these.

I'm not sure if I should go for 2x1TB or just get a single 2TB or if the slower rpm of the 2TB drives will even make a difference.

Would rather stick to WD or Samsung just because I've never had either of these fail on me yet *touch wood*

What should I buy?

Thanks
 
For storage the rpm differences makes no difference at all, you get a quieter, cooler and cheaper drive that uses less power. The Samsung's outperform the WD's and are quieter (more important), also cheaper most of the time.

I would buy the cheapest disks, usually 1.5TB but there have been some good 2TB deals lately where they've been cheaper per/GB or only slightly more so it's worth it to reduce no. of drives.
 
1.5TB is about the sweet spot right now in terms of GB per £. I got F3 5400rpm ecogreens myself as you don't need fast drives for storage and they run cooler then 7200RPM drives and should be a bit more reliable. Personally i would get 2 and run them windows software raid1 or hardware raid 1 if your motherboard supports, because do you really want to re-rip over a terabyte of disks again if a drive fails?
 
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I can vouch for the samsung f2 eco 1,5tb, very cool and quiet drive with great transfer speeds for a 5200rpm drive. I wouldn't raid 1 for backup, if one becomes corrupt so will the other, your better off manually backing the files up.
 
I can recommend the WD Caviar green drives, I'm currently using a 1tb drive for storage in my system and to stream to my 360/PS3. It works like a charm.

Also just my personal experience but the Samsung drives are not so good. The last one I will ever own was 750gb spinpoint that crapped out on me after 3 months of use. WD on the other hand, I still have 3 or 4 180gb drives that are soldiering on after 3 years.
 
Using both WD Green and Seagate LP drives. Both running spot on. They replaced failed Samsung drives..
 
AbsenceJam said:
This is better than the above, having actual backups beats using RAID 1 where you can still lose everything.
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Yup,

I have two file servers, the backup one has raid-3 and multiple drives, the main one just has large drives.

I do worry about storing things on a raid alone, if the controller breaks then you can be in a world of hurt trying to rebuild it.
 
I would just get 1 2TB instead of 2* 1TB's.

I had a 1.5TB Samsung F2, ran cool and was fine for storage so speeds on them are fine :)
 
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