Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s $109.99

[schoondoggy]

Best performing 3TB drive on the market;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844

[ShuG]

What's the best then these Seagate's or WD Reds

I'm using a N40L as a repository for music and video files to be streamed to a TV. Os on a seperate SSD drive

[schoondoggy]

The Seagates are faster, the Reds are designed for long life in servers.

Are you going to put them in a RAID?

[ikon]

In your situation the Reds should work just fine. If you were running a database server, performing thousands of transactions per second or minute, I would suggest the faster drives.

[Joe_Miner]

3TB Red Performance http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4826-wd-red-messed-up-my-htpc/page-2#entry52701

 

ST3000DM001 Performance http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4826-wd-red-messed-up-my-htpc/page-2#entry52747

[ShuG]

Thanks guys The N40L is just going to be for storage I have rocketraid 2720 non raid controller and 2 sets of external drives as backup

[ikon]

The 2720 is a RAID controller. Perhaps you meant you're not using its RAID capabilities?

[Drashna Jaelre]

What if he means the non-RAID versin? The HighPoint Rocket 2720SGL?

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_r272x.htm

 

[ikon]

We need pcdoc. I thought the difference between the 2720 & 2720SGL was that one comes with the breakout cable and the other doesn't.

[schoondoggy]

They make RAID cards and HBA's

RAID = RocketRAID 2720SGL

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr272x.htm

HBA = Rocket 2720SGL

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_r272x.htm