ssd vs hdd for recording

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dinosaur2910

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i was wondering if i should get a ssd for recording but is it worth it? should i just buy a hdd. And if so what do i need to look at to tell a good hdd for recording.
 
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Well that is entirely dependent upon what you are recording.

An average 3.5" desktop drive can do sequential write at 80-110 megabytes per second which equals 640-880 megabits per second.

So if you are recording raw uncompressed 4k video at 60fps = 711MBps which is 7x the capability of any hdd.
If you are doing pretty much anything less then that (even compresed 4k at 24fps) then you will not surpass the bitrate of the hard drive and thus there is no point in getting an SSD drive which has much higher $$/GB price.

For video surveillance or anything doing constant recording the WD purple drives are built for this.
For general purpose recording I would get a blue or black series WD drive (7200rpm)
For business purpose I would only get...
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Well that is entirely dependent upon what you are recording.

An average 3.5" desktop drive can do sequential write at 80-110 megabytes per second which equals 640-880 megabits per second.

So if you are recording raw uncompressed 4k video at 60fps = 711MBps which is 7x the capability of any hdd.
If you are doing pretty much anything less then that (even compresed 4k at 24fps) then you will not surpass the bitrate of the hard drive and thus there is no point in getting an SSD drive which has much higher $$/GB price.

For video surveillance or anything doing constant recording the WD purple drives are built for this.
For general purpose recording I would get a blue or black series WD drive (7200rpm)
For business purpose I would only get black or red due to longer warranty and higher quality.
 
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