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Suggestions on buying a good Internal Hard Drive?

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MrWoodenSheep

Hey guys, I decided to ask on these forums considering I don't know much about hard drives, and I trust that most people replying here would know what they're talking about. In you I trust!

Anyway, I'm looking for an internal Hard drive for recording gameplay footage into directly with a high fps. Resolution: 1920 x 1080, and I'd like to play at 60fps while recording gameplay at 30fps using DxTory. My C drive is cluttered, and recording onto an External isn't ideal. Just know that I'll only be using this new harddrive for recording footage onto, but then those files will immediately be moved. Basically, it will be empty most of the time as I won't be using it for anything else. So I'm looking for a high amount of storage space, and high RPM I'm assuming? I don't really know, so I'd like your help with those numbers, as well as anything else I'll need. Thankyou! :D

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Darkemis

Only high speed/big storage space HDD that springs to my mind is Western Digital VelociRaptor, if 1TB is not enough you could get 1 more of the same and raid0 them, or buy separate high storage 7200 rpm HDD to keep all the recordings on it, or games, but I guess you're gonna go for external HDD to keep recordings on because there's no point in keeping them on your internal HDD. I'm looking forward to seeing more replies as I myself am going to be getting high end PC soon and could use some suggestions.

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MrWoodenSheep

Thanks, you helped :)

12 years ago
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godprobe

Hopefully helpful link for DiskCompare, but otherwise I don't have much input these days.

12 years ago
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schalart

I use A SSD to record and process and bounce it onto my other internal 3tb hd for storage. . With Steam's backup features HDD space isn't an issue, unless someone releases a 70 gb game. SSD ARE AWESOME.

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MrWoodenSheep

Thanks, I'll keep SSDs in mind :)

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SpiderPg

What resolution are you recording at & what exactly is "high fps"?
I've been able to record 1080p@60fps on a 1TB Seagate Barracuda which is 5900RPM with DxTory perfectly fine, I should think you would be able to record fine on any HDD that's 7200RPM, just find one big enough for your needs.

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MrWoodenSheep

I'll be recording at 1920 x 1080, and I just want to record at 30fps, however, while playing at around 60. I'll be using DxTory too, your situation sounds exactly like mine. Might I ask what games that is? I'd like to have the option to record some higher end games too

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SpiderPg

COD4, Crysis, Fallout3, Skyrim, Metro 2033 + more. I don't think the in-game graphics settings make a difference to your recordings as long as your FPS is equal to or more than what your recording at.

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BrutoDetestsDT

You really don't need a SSD or a VelociRaptor to record a stream. SSD and 10.000 RPM hard disks (VelociRaptor) are very useful for random access read/write operations, you need a normal write transfer rate for sequential data, probably.

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MrWoodenSheep

So you're saying SSD is overkill? Would a 7200RPM Harddrive be good?

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uncaer9

Seagate Barracuda is pretty fast and cheap.

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satoru

Your OS drive MUST be a SSD

Do not go with anything else. It is literally night an day between and SSD and an old hard drive.

You can circumvent the hard drive space issue by installing games on another drive. Also mapping your "My Documents" to another drive ensures your c: won't get to cluttered. It does require a bit of fussing about initially to ensure your SSD is 'optimal' like moving page files and hibernation files off the c: but once it's done it's absolutely worth it.

For any RAID config make sure you AVOID any 'green' or 'low energy' drives. These spin down to save energy and cause havok with RAID controller that assume drives aren't going to do that.

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MrWoodenSheep

Thanks for the warning about the green ones. Also just to clarify, you said SSD is a must for the OS, but I'm asking for a harddrive solely for recording gameplay footage onto temporarily. Basically this thing will be empty until I record gameplay footage on it. Are you saying my primary drive should be an SSD with the OS, and games installed, and I should use my current harddrive as the one to record gameplay onto?

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iptoux

You can use every HDD you want! 5400RPM or 7200RPM is not the reason.... the question is, will do you use the hdd for other things while you record games. A ripped FULL-HD movie that uses 21GB of space and have a bitrate of 12K runs fine (read/write),so i think do you do not have a 12k bitrate ;)

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Closed 12 years ago by MrWoodenSheep.