Hard Drives for Game Recording

Lunardeath0020

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Hello all! I had a question about finding a good hard drive for recording games. I've seen other articles talking about this but none recently that really solved the answer for me.

I play a lot of BF4 and after having a lot of times where gameplay could have turned into great internet moments or at least great memories for me, I begun wanting to record. I use DXTORY and am running my OS and games off of an SSD, with a i5 4690k, 16GB of 1866mhz RAM, and an MSI GTX 960 GPU but am currently running my game recording onto a 3GB/s 32MB cache 1TB hard drive and I get lagging speeds when recording.

I was wondering what would work well with recording? I was thinking about a WD Red or Blue. Or perhaps a seagate with 6GB/s 64MB cache.

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I'm open to spending up to about $125. I don't plan on being professional or anything of that nature but would like my videos to at least look somewhat professional.

Any input would be much appreciated!

Thank you so much!

Best regards,
Lunar
 
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Sata 2 (3Gb/s not GB/s) vs sata 3 (6Gb/s) makes no difference to hdds for recording since hdds wouldn't even be getting to sata 1 speeds. Even older hdds can do 1080p/60 as long as you are not using a bad codec which is more than 1GB for for 10secs of video. That would just make no sense to be using a codec that inefficient. My guess is there is some other issue causing the bad performance while recording. How full is the hdd? Have you tried other recorders? Shadowplay?
Sata 2 (3Gb/s not GB/s) vs sata 3 (6Gb/s) makes no difference to hdds for recording since hdds wouldn't even be getting to sata 1 speeds. Even older hdds can do 1080p/60 as long as you are not using a bad codec which is more than 1GB for for 10secs of video. That would just make no sense to be using a codec that inefficient. My guess is there is some other issue causing the bad performance while recording. How full is the hdd? Have you tried other recorders? Shadowplay?
 
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Lunardeath0020

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Honestly, I don't know much about codecs. The hard drive is completely empty, I'm only recording and storing on the hard drive. I paid money for dxtory because I heard how great of a recorder it was, so I really don't want to look at other recorders, especially considering that I know it works well for tons of other people.
 

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