WD Caviar Drive for DVR?
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:20 am
by southrncomfortjm
Hey All,
Has anyone used a
WD - Caviar Green 2TB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive in their HTPC for DVR work? I have a Ceton Infinitv4 and just want to be sure this drive can handle recording a few channels and also playing back recorded shows at the same time without a hitch.
I have a Core i3 3.3ghz if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
Soco
Re: WD Caviar Drive for DVR?
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:15 am
by TheEmrys
I have one of these and a 3 TB version in my HTPC. Works great. However, I have a 256 GiB OS drive. DVR HD's get very fragmented, and I run Auslogics every week. The drive with the OS never gets fragmented now. But yeah, you could definately get by with 1 HD.
Re: WD Caviar Drive for DVR?
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:02 pm
by JustAnEngineer
I've got a 2TB WD Caviar Green and a 2TB Samsung HD204UI in mine. I'm certain that it can handle two programs recording and a third playing back without a hitch. I don't know that I've seen it recording four and playing back a fifth at the same time.
The 7200-rpm drives are noisier and hotter than the 5400/5900 rpm "green" drives. I put a
3TB Seagate Barracuda in my gaming PC a couple of months ago for $140.
Re: WD Caviar Drive for DVR?
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:54 pm
by UberGerbil
JustAnEngineer wrote: I don't know that I've seen it recording four and playing back a fifth at the same time.
This does suggest a potentially interesting "real world" benchmark for storage reviews.