Hard drive differences?

[mike_15]

I am looking to get a new video storage drive. I am leaning toward a 500 GB seagate.

I was looking at Newegg and cant decide between two simular models.

ComparisonView

From what I can see the ST3500320AS has 32mb buffer, is less expensive, and has "Proven second-generation perpendicular recording technology"

where the ST3500630SV is a DVR surveillance specific drive.

Am I splitting hairs, or should one perform better for a Sage system over the other??

[Lucas]

I think you are splitting hairs!

Just get the cheaper.

[gjvrieze]

Originally Posted by mike_15

I am looking to get a new video storage drive. I am leaning toward a 500 GB seagate.

I was looking at Newegg and cant decide between two simular models.

ComparisonView

From what I can see the ST3500320AS has 32mb buffer, is less expensive, and has "Proven second-generation perpendicular recording technology"

where the ST3500630SV is a DVR surveillance specific drive.

Am I splitting hairs, or should one perform better for a Sage system over the other??

Get the normal desktop drive with 32mb of cache, that is a 7200.11 drive btw.... The DVR drives can have weird firmware and performance, as they are trying to keep drive noise down....

[mike_15]

I ended up with the normal desktop (ST3500320AS). glad not to have to deal with potentially troublesome DVR style issues.

I was surprised that when I connected the drive bios recognised it, windows installed its drivers. but it didn't show up under my computer. I had do go into disk management and convert it to a dynamic disk, then format it. and now it shows up. Is this typical for SATA drives or just an unusual thing.

I don't know how my computer illiterate friends would have gotten it to work. makes me wonder if some of the people who recieved a DOA drive were really DOA or not set up.

[tmiranda]

That's normal for all drives. You need to format them befoer they show up.