2018-10-11, 04:18 AM
I have always used Western Digital drives. They seem to have gone down hill over the last several years.
When I built my PVR barely a year ago (ordered the parts on 9/25/17), I put two WDC drives in it, a 500 gig black for the OS and a 6 TB purple for recordings, both brand new. Both drives have already failed twice. I just received the second replacement for the 6 TB today. I was hoping that maybe they had a bad batch the first time around, but now I am wondering if I shouldn't switch brands. I used black drives in every computer I have built because they are performance drives and purple because the are built for surveillance systems (security cameras) and are supposed to be able to better handle the constant writing of large files.
The question is which brand. What brands does everybody else use? I was thinking Seagate.
When I built my PVR barely a year ago (ordered the parts on 9/25/17), I put two WDC drives in it, a 500 gig black for the OS and a 6 TB purple for recordings, both brand new. Both drives have already failed twice. I just received the second replacement for the 6 TB today. I was hoping that maybe they had a bad batch the first time around, but now I am wondering if I shouldn't switch brands. I used black drives in every computer I have built because they are performance drives and purple because the are built for surveillance systems (security cameras) and are supposed to be able to better handle the constant writing of large files.
The question is which brand. What brands does everybody else use? I was thinking Seagate.
Kevin
AMD FX-8320E 8 core
16 gig RAM
Gigabyte MoBo GA-970 DS3P
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Series GeForce GT 730 video card
1 TB SSD System drive, 10 TB HD for DVD's, 6 TB HD for recorded videos
Windows 10 Pro in domain
Next PVR client
Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD tuner card
AMD FX-8320E 8 core
16 gig RAM
Gigabyte MoBo GA-970 DS3P
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Series GeForce GT 730 video card
1 TB SSD System drive, 10 TB HD for DVD's, 6 TB HD for recorded videos
Windows 10 Pro in domain
Next PVR client
Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD tuner card