I like using WD Black Caviar drives for editing. But lately been thinking of trying a WD Gold Data Center drive. 7200rpm. 128mb Cache. 2.5million hours? 24x7x365 reliability.
Anyone using WD Data Center drives for editing?
It's a waste of money. I worked in data centers for decades and on any day you could walk on to the floor and find dozens of failed drives for thousands of drives in the inventory. I use Hitachi Deskstar, but have never been tempted to use the premium Ultrastar model that's targeted for data center use.
If you really want to waste money, buy some of these:
No spinning disk can do this...
Besides, you don't have 285 years left to get you money's worth before the drive fails.
I do agree. At least use good quality SSDs, Samsung Pro series for example. PCIe SSD devices are only advisable if you have sufficient PCIe lanes left in your system to guarantee max. performance.
add me to the list ;-) ssd's are so cheap nowadays....
I just noticed, depending on which size disk you buy, your WD Gold drive may actually be an Hitachi Ultrastar since Western Digital bought Hitachi's 3.5" drive division. See the similarities.
Thanks all for the comments. Caviar Black still seems like the sweet spot for Video edit. I guess I don't want to spend the bucks on multiple SSD's .. I ramble around too much working on different things on different drives .. I'd need at least three of the 1tb SSD's .. I just hate buying a 4TB drive. Seems a lot of data to risk on one drive. Right now for Black, it's 1tb, 4tb, 5tb and 6tb. But I use to say that about 1TB.
I said:
"I use Hitachi Deskstar, but have never been tempted to use the premium Ultrastar model that's targeted for data center use."
2018 Update: I had to buy an 8TB drive recently for my archive disk. The Deskstar units are no longer available so I ponied-up for the Ultrastar for $305 US. One significant thing I noticed was that the drive was only 95 degrees F after six hours of sustained writes.
I am not convinced that these 'data centre grade' drives are worth the extra $$. For the price of 1 of them, I can get 2 'ordinary' drives and mirror them, and get redundancy to boot. The warranty on the drives is identical (3 years) so why would you pay double?
Insofar as video editing is concerned, disk throughput and rotational speed seems to be king for video editing in Vegas, particularly for me when loading multicam edits, where the disk will sit at 100% for a couple of minutes whilst loading the project. Fast disk doesn't seem to play a huge part during renders, and it seems to have some positive impact during timeline playback. My (eventual) aim is to have SSD only drives in a mirror once their price point becomes more reasonable for me to afford a pair of 2TB SSD's.
FYI, I used to have 2 x 150GB Western Digital Velociraptor 10,000 RPM drives in a mirror in the days of DV/HDV editing and they absolutely did the job BUT despite good fan cooling, literally toasted the label on the drive, so much so that it browned because of the heat. You could not touch the drives without getting burned.
.. I just hate buying a 4TB drive. Seems a lot of data to risk on one drive. Right now for Black, it's 1tb, 4tb, 5tb and 6tb. But I use to say that about 1TB.
I"m pretty sure all modern motherboards have onboard raid (need to turn it on in bios) as even my cheap Aldi PC has raid.. If you really value your work buy 2x 4tb & use the mirroring raid option.
"Insofar as video editing is concerned, disk throughput and rotational speed seems to be king for video editing in Vegas, particularly for me when loading multicam edits, where the disk will sit at 100% for a couple of minutes whilst loading the project. Fast disk doesn't seem to play a huge part during renders, and it seems to have some positive impact during timeline playback. My (eventual) aim is to have SSD only drives in a mirror once their price point becomes more reasonable for me to afford a pair of 2TB SSD's."
I practice hierarchical storage management, and have ever since the concept was created. I boot from SATA SSD, editing is done on an NVME disk. These large spinning disks are where the projects and assets are archived after the work is done. The projects remain available on spinning disk and a complete backup is on disks in a canister in another location away from my machine. If the Deskstar was still available, I would have bought a pair of them for this purpose. My previous diskpurchase was a WD Black that I bought after I dropped one of my offline Deskstar disks. It runs HOT like every other WD Black that I've ever used.
I have no knock against SATA SSD or NVME disks except for price.
If the Deskstar was still available, I would have bought a pair of them for this purpose. My previous diskpurchase was a WD Black that I bought after I dropped one of my offline Deskstar disks. It runs HOT like every other WD Black that I've ever used.
The Gold drives are like a combination of the black with it's 7200rpm & large cache for speed plus the Red with it's anti vibration control to make it quieter & extend life PLUS it's a helium gas drive, meaning less friction, less wattage and less heat. It really does have great qualities. My WD red's are quiet & cool, as advertised, but ofcourse the black was faster.
gold are good as compare to ssd , i mean who would buy ssd ,its expensive as compared to hdd. i have 512 gb m.2 ssd for os and hdd for storage
i mean who would buy ssd ,its expensive
Agreed. It's amazing that given the years that SSD has been on the market how little the price has reduced.
I buy 10,000 rpm drives on the unproven assumption that part of what I am paying for is better engineering and balance to run continuously at that speed.
Your experience, jd?
I never paid a premium for 10,000 RPM drives for my own use. My hearing would probably better if I had never worked around 15,000 RPM drives. That may be why I think all drives are so quiet these days. Being a drummer probably didn't help either.