Best Hard Drive for Audio/Visual & CCTV

[milanlad]

I need to decide on hard drives suitable for use in where there is likely to be regular or heavy use. They will be used for audio and video streaming, and for CCTV recording to hard drive.

My system will have one drive for Windows OS and other progammes, and a second drive purely for data. I was also considering using a Raid set for the data side of things.

I'm looking to use SATA. Ideally the drive need to be quiet as possible.

I know Seagate and Samsung drives are quiet but I understand they're not recommended for this application. Someone suggested Western Digital Raid Edition RE drives but I don't know how quiet they are.

Any other thoughts or suggestions?

Cheers

[dave87]

Reliability & Data Integrety one of the Maxtor MAXLine drives (5 Year Warrenty) Or if you really want silent try the Samsung Spinpoint drives, theyre quite quiet.

[weebroonieuk]

never mind what they say about seagates there 5 year warranty is best and id ignore maxtor the warranty is for the worst case scenario and u never want to have to use it !

seagates are known to be reliable and most durable,(not a fanboy i have the 300 gb maxline)

[Funkstar]

probably best to look for the drives that state they are for RAID or 24/7 use. I know Maxtor and Western Digital do them, other probably do as well

[weebroonieuk]

i would go for the western digital if you really must but all the raid edition drives get is an 8 hour stress test over the 1 hour sstandard test so all you basically get is assurance that drive wasnt gonna fail in its first 7 hours after the normal one

honestly get a seagate for what your wanting, you get more space than paying over the odds for a raid edition sticker slapped on it