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Title: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: RC_cat on August 15, 2010, 03:55:04 PM: Hi
I bought a WD20EARS but thanks to this forum I can still refund it tomorrow.
Now I want to buy an other HD of 2TB but I don't know which to chose?
In the same shop there are available:

- Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2 TB
- Samsung HD203WI 2 TB EcoGreen
- Seagate ST32000542AS 2 TB
- Western Digital WD20EADS 2 TB

They are all at a similar price (20€ between the cheaper and the expensive) but I'm afraid with the WD

Can you help me to chose???

Thanks.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on August 15, 2010, 05:16:32 PM: I have pair of 1.5TB Hitachi drives and a pair of 1.5TB Seagate drives, both work fine for RAID in the DNS-323 or DNS-321.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: lookingforinfo on August 15, 2010, 07:10:25 PM: I have had no problems using two WD20EADS drives.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: dosborne on August 15, 2010, 08:54:58 PM: Quote from: RC_cat on August 15, 2010, 03:55:04 PM
- Seagate ST32000542AS 2 TB
- Western Digital WD20EADS 2 TB

Personal preference would be these. Although not usually recommended, I buy one of each for my units. I have a WD 1TB and a Seagate 1TB in one NAS and a WD 1.5TB and a Seagate 1.5TB in a second NAS.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: Rodent on August 15, 2010, 09:39:44 PM: I have no problems with Samsung 2TB Spinpoint F3EG EcoGreen HDD - SATA II 3.0Gbs, 32MB Cache, 8.9ms seek in mine, its a bit noisy when the drive spins up but than its silent.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: jamieburchell on August 16, 2010, 01:15:55 AM: Quote from: Rodent on August 15, 2010, 09:39:44 PM
I have no problems with Samsung 2TB Spinpoint F3EG EcoGreen HDD - SATA II 3.0Gbs, 32MB Cache, 8.9ms seek in mine, its a bit noisy when the drive spins up but than its silent.

I've got one of these on order. I'm guessing that the slower rotation of the drive should'nt show up any performance decrease from a faster spinning drive? I guess other factors are likely to be a bottleneck. I'm planning on streaming video/ISO from it and currently this works fine on a 7200 RPM drive.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: Rodent on August 16, 2010, 05:13:24 AM: Quote from: jamieburchell on August 16, 2010, 01:15:55 AM
I've got one of these on order. I'm guessing that the slower rotation of the drive should'nt show up any performance decrease from a faster spinning drive? I guess other factors are likely to be a bottleneck. I'm planning on streaming video/ISO from it and currently this works fine on a 7200 RPM drive.

I stream full 1080p movies to a WDTV Live hard wired @ 100MB with no problems, I am looking at getting another WDTV Live for another room and I believe this can stream movies to both at the same time but I'm not sure about 2 1080p movies at the same time.

R.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on August 16, 2010, 05:18:45 AM: The limitations on the network side are far slower than any drive you could put into this box, so any drive will be more than fast enough not to be a bottleneck.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: jamieburchell on August 16, 2010, 05:21:39 AM: Quote from: gunrunnerjohn on August 16, 2010, 05:18:45 AM
The limitations on the network side are far slower than any drive you could put into this box, so any drive will be more than fast enough not to be a bottleneck.

How about 0RPM :(
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=14565.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=14565.0)
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on August 16, 2010, 05:27:24 AM: Well, I was assuming the drive was functional! ;D
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: RC_cat on August 16, 2010, 06:54:23 AM: Quote from: Rodent on August 15, 2010, 09:39:44 PM
I have no problems with Samsung 2TB Spinpoint F3EG EcoGreen HDD - SATA II 3.0Gbs, 32MB Cache, 8.9ms seek in mine, its a bit noisy when the drive spins up but than its silent.

I think it will be this finally.
Thaks to all.
Title: Re: Recomended Hard Drive
Post by: jamieburchell on August 16, 2010, 07:49:19 AM: Now I've pushed mine in the slot fully, it seems to be working fine so far :)