Good 1.5 terabyte drive?

[lolper]

Looking to purchase a new internal terabyte drive any recommendations on a good quality one?

 

[sub mesa]

There are no high quality HDDs; all have high BER and start being less reliable every generation. Just live with it and invest in a backup.

Any 1.5TB with three platters will do; samsung, WD, Seagate.

 

[lolper]

whast BER ? any HDD in paticular that has good performance?

 

[sub mesa]

If you want good performance and small storage, go for an SSD.

If you want bad performance but large storage, go for HDD.

HDDs themselves do not differ all that much; just make sure you get the latest generation disks with 500GB-per-platter.

 

[lolper]

like which company for example WD caviar Black?

 

[MarkG]

I have a 1.5TB Caviar Green in my MythTV box and it's been running for a few thousand hours with no problems. It's only 5400rpm, but I don't notice it feeling slow for anything I use it for.

Ultimately, as mentioned, if you really want good performance you need an SSD.