which 1Tb hard rive for htpc?

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floydie

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#103553 10-Jun-2012 19:54

i currently have a samsung spinpoint F3 drive which is a great drive but....

i am rebuilding my mums htpc which has a pitiful 250gb drive in it.

should i try to find another samsung drive as they are hard to get and expensive.
or something else??

it has to be fast and quiet like the samsung at similar money or cheaper...(no SSD's please)

any suggestions??

Gilco2

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#638606 10-Jun-2012 20:15

I have a samsung and western digital in my htpc. I like both. the samsung has been trouble free. I did a spare one recently and put in a western digital green power drive and so far so good. The samsung was hard to find and ones I did find expensive so went with western digital.

At present I have stayed away from seagate. Used to like seagate then had 4 of series 11 fail in short time. Google it and found it was a common problem, I would assume the series 12 are okay now but didnt want to chance it.
edit to say I finally went with the western digital green power as I wanted quiet, and it is quiet

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floydie

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#638608 10-Jun-2012 20:24

a green drive would be hell slow though for the OS?

the htpc curretly has a WD Blue drive in it and it is so slow, the blue drive was the only thng carried over into an intel i3 build last year..the green would be evn worse?

Gilco2

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#638609 10-Jun-2012 20:32

never noticed it slow for os. I just use it for movies/blue ray and satellite tv and quickflix. Hasnt been a problem. Maybe if I wanted to play games but been fine. Have blu ray drive for blu ray and plays perfectly. You said quiet.
Another option I have done as well is use a laptop hard drive for os and the 3.5 hard drive for data to keep noise down

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wsnz

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#638654 10-Jun-2012 21:58

The WD Green series drives have worked just fine for my HTPC setup both as the OS and the media drives. I haven't had any reliability issues either.

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#638699 11-Jun-2012 08:15

[pedant]

I hope you get a 1TB (terabyte) drive, not a 1Tb (terabit) drive. A terabyte has eight times more space than a terabit...

[/pedant]

But seriously, a HTPC is not I/O intensive - any drive even green models would work fine?

Kingy

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#638720 11-Jun-2012 08:54

I have a WD Green 1TB and a 2TB Samsung in my HTPC. Don't really notice any performance issues with the Green (not currently my OS drive, it was previously).

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#638808 11-Jun-2012 11:06

Samsung's hard drive division was acquired by Seagate, you won't find Samsung F3's in stock at reasonable prices.

It's Western Digital, Hitatchi or Seagate now.

Seagate's firmware bug with .11 series is in the past, the drive manufacturers all have about the same reliability normally. I wouldn't judge their .12 series drives on a software problem with the .11 that was fixed with firmware update.

If you want a 7200rpm performance drive rather than a "eco/green", it's out of:

Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000
WD Caviar Black
Seagate ST1000DM003