Fastest Mechanical HDD?

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Ok, too cheap for a SSD, even though I already have one.
Anyway, I've been searching around for a mechanical HDD to record my Video game footage for YouTube and obviously want to record in highest quality detail aswell as being able to write the video file with no lag.

I've been searching for Spinpoints on OCuk, but they never seem to be in stock, or the WD caviar black drives are much more expensive here than on other e-tailers.

Hitachi are apparently unreliable.
Spinpoints are hard to find.
WD are overpriced at the mo.

Without me complaining. Which is the best drive?
I need at least 110mbs read/write

Thanks in advance :)
 
the seagate sata3 drives are quick,the 2tb/3tb versions even on sata2 ports,also the hitachi 500mb sata3 drives are quick,i havnt seen them tested on the intel sata2 ports though

i myself use the samsung f3's and f4's 1tb and 2tb drives,150mb read/write on an empty f3 1tb and 140mb read/write on an empty 2tb drive
 
Thanks for the quick responses, am now tempted for a F3, have seen some pretty cheap prices, sorry OCuk, you'll have to stock em again to win me over ;P
 
samsung no longer have any speed crown.

with sata mechanical drives, the fastest are the velocirapters, followed by the wd black edition drives/re4 since the access times are better than all other drives in this class.

for all out sequential transfer rates, the speed crown is with the new samsung drives which use 1tb platters and 7200rpm rotation speed. those drives get up to 190mb/s on the outer edge of the platter and hit 100mb/s on the inner area of the platter.
some insane speeds there for storage drives.
 
I'm using a 2 Segate 2TB ST2000DM003s in RAID-0.

360MB/sec in RAID-0 which equates to ~180 per single drive. Even on the inside of the platter it retains most of it's speed. Very impressed with them, silent also other than some head activity noise from time to time.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
samsung no longer have any speed crown.

with sata mechanical drives, the fastest are the velocirapters, followed by the wd black edition drives/re4 since the access times are better than all other drives in this class.

for all out sequential transfer rates, the speed crown is with the new samsung drives which use 1tb platters and 7200rpm rotation speed. those drives get up to 190mb/s on the outer edge of the platter and hit 100mb/s on the inner area of the platter.
some insane speeds there for storage drives.
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Agree with this (me, agreeing with Cyber-Mav? hell doth froze over!). ;)
 
Other than the VelociRaptor afaik short stroked ST1000DM003 is the fastest affordable mechanical HDD setup you can get.
 
I don't quite understand how your "too cheap" for an SSD... for a 1TB mechanical your paying around the same as a 120GB SSD... depending of course on manufacturer etc etc...
 
Fastest mechanical drives would be 15k RPM Enterprise SAS drives. However realistically i'd go for the 1Tb Velociraptor drives.
 
Ceptic said:
Hows the reliability of them Sin_Chase?
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As above, recent purchase.

Lot's of people complained about DOA units on other review sites but as they are OEM non boxed items most sellers are not packaging them properly so DOA is to be expected.

Mine came from OcUK in about 5 foot of bubble wrap and a sea of air bags.

They are very impressive drives though, just a shame you cannot edit the TLER/Error Recovery values. If you could do the latter they would be perfect. Not an issue if you have no intention of running RAID though.

Just to backup my speed claims:

RAID-0 (2 disks)
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