What type of HDD for constant 1080p 60FPS video recording?

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So I use NVIDIA ShadowPlay and the settings are cranked. I write approximately 500GB a day if I did the math right. What type of hard drive should I get that can endure this? If it is possible, I would also like it to be okay for long term storage, but I can buy a different type of drive for this. I was looking at WD purple but some said it caused lots of data corruption. I am on Windows 10 Home 64 bit.

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16GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM

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Honestly, your best bet would be just a 7200RPM HDD.
An SSD would probably not be the best idea due to the constant write cycle, but a standard HDD would probably never reach the point where shadowplay matters.

The speed of the storage probably wont matter for shadowplay since its not a very demanding program.
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OMG 500GB? Are u sure? What ever for your requirement you have to select some enterprise solutions but it will be very expensive to get. Since you are still in HDD just asking is it working smooth becs of low data write speeds? Better to go for SSDs at least sata based. What is your budget?
Here is few options of SSDs,
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/product/storage-products/enterprise-ssd/px04smb-px04smqxxx.html
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/ssd/enterprise-ssd/
But it will burn your wallet like crazy.

For HDDs here are few useful links,
https://www.deskdecode.com/top-best-sas-or-sata-enterprise-hard-disk-drive-hdd-monthly-updated/
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/best-enterprise-hard-drives,2-981.html
 
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I think the OP means they write 500GB a day. The way shadow play works it has a temporary recording of the past 20 (or whatever) minutes. Each second that passes deletes one second from this recording. Basically, the file size itself is never more than a few GB, but its always updating.
 
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I am sure because a 20 minute file is 8GB, and there is 72x that in a day. 72 x 8 = 576GB per day. It isn’t all saved, it is temporary usually but I want high write speeds for the best video quality.
 
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Gam3r01 you are very right, but I want a high speed drive so that data can change quickly, so more data can be saved, therefore boosting quality. I also want a very fast drive because even though the data is changing it still has to write 576GB per day.
 
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Honestly, your best bet would be just a 7200RPM HDD.
An SSD would probably not be the best idea due to the constant write cycle, but a standard HDD would probably never reach the point where shadowplay matters.

The speed of the storage probably wont matter for shadowplay since its not a very demanding program.
 
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In that case any decent HDD like WD black or even a Samsung 850EVO will work fine. Regarding the endurance have gone through some articles where they have pushed these to its limit and found that say a more fragile 960evo 500GB or below can write almost a petabytes of data before showing signs of failure.
So you can easily stay with it for at least 5 yrs. before the drives getting outdated much faster than its failure in course of use.
 
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Sorry but what I have found that the recent SSDs are more reliable than basic consumer grade HDDs that do fail a lot.
 
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Ok here are few discussions,
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/632928/geforce-experience/avoid-using-shadowplay-on-an-ssd-drive-/1/
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/nivida-shadowplay-would-you-record-to-your-ssd-or-hdd.2350282/
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3113368/hdd-ssd-game-recording.html

Summary is you will see some performance benifit if you are using a SSD over HDD but it depends on what resolution and quality preset you are recording. Don't have exact data but it seems at 1080p High 60fps an HDD will work fine for you. However going towards 4k the situation may be a bit different for HDDS. Result is stuttering in videos. And finally using ssds will not make them burn and die very fast since just I have said it will become outdated fast than its death.
So if 1080p High is your thing then avoid SSDs if you need more quality and 4k use ssds.
And thanks Gam3r01, learnt something new for you.
 
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There are hard drives specifically engineered for heavy, mostly write-intensive use. These are called surveillance drives because that particular use-case most closely fits the surveillance industry with Closed-Circuit TV, DVR, and NVR recording. Ours is the SkyHawk. The ideal read-write scenario for the SkyHawk looks something like writing 90% of the time and reading the other 10% or playback. The firmware is designed to prioritize writing to manage massive blocks of highly-detailed video as it records, so you don't see the type of frame drops or quality loss you may on a regular consumer drive. They also have a much higher workload rating than desktop-grade drives, the SkyHawk is rated for 180TB of data per year whileas most desktop drives are rated for 55TB per year. There is also the SkyHawk AI which bumps that up to a pretty high 550TB per year as well.
 
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