Best 2tb drive?

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I am quickly running out of storage on my 750gb and 1tb drives, so I am looking to buy a 2tb at Christmas and another later on.

I want something that I can put in raid 1 and it needs to be quite quick as I want to stream 1080p videos while possibly streaming music to a different computer, also something that isn't too loud, But it will be primarily used to hold media.

I have been looking at:

Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache

Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Any other suggestions would be great :)

Thanks.
 
I would personally say away from the WD greens; all that stuff about "advanced formatting" and having to align it annoys me. If previous models are to go buy; as in the samsung 1.5TB f2 then the F4 should be good; especally with the 667GB platter size. Since they are both eco drives on their own they may not be super fast but if you are raiding then anything would do
 
I've got both disks. The Samsung is in my NAS as the Western Digital disks seem to be very picky in NAS units.
I'm using the Western Digital Green in my media PC as the only drive, its perfectly adequate for downloading to and playback of HD video.

Personally I'd get which ever you can find cheaper.

Make sure if you want the full 3 year warranty to avoid sellers who say the disks are OEM. Most OEM disks only come with a 1 year warranty (regardless of what the seller may say)

I got burned recently, bought some disks from a big on-line retailer, advert said OEM, 3 year warranty. Got the disks and checked the serials in the on-line warranty checker (Samsung) and you get the error the disks are out of area and not official UK drives with the full 3 year warranty. I managed to send them back and went else where but its a pain to sort out.
 
SoildSnake said:
I would personally say away from the WD greens; all that stuff about "advanced formatting" and having to align it annoys me......
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Theres nothing to do if you have a modern OS like Windows 7. It's all automatic. Plus 'advanced format' will be the only standard from the beginning of next year, so best not to bury your head in the sand on this one :)
 
I have had both the Samsung F4 and the WD Green 2TB drives. In fact I now have three WD Green's.
My F4 failed after less than 30 days use but that can happen with any drive. What I was more concerned about was the total lackluster support and advice compared to that offered by WD when one of their drives failed.

When I ran HD Tune pro the F4 did show itself to be "faster" than the WD Greens, only by a small amount though. In real practical terms I have noticed zero difference in use.

I would go for the WD drives if only for the superb tech support offered to me when I had issues and the advanced replacement offer that they made.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Theres nothing to do if you have a modern OS like Windows 7. It's all automatic. Plus 'advanced format' will be the only standard from the beginning of next year, so best not to bury your head in the sand on this one :)
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Really; i read a review; though some time ago that the "advanced format" thing was; well not a fade as such but would not be the next big thing?
 
Yes that was the case, but the hard disk manufacturers are making it the standard from next year. There's not really many drawbacks so it's good for us :)
 
Lot's of 7200rpm drives can keep up or beat a Raptor in outright transfer rates. But they cannot come near to matching them on access times and IO's, and as an OS drive that is what counts.
 
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