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I have ordered these various parts as follows, they should be here in the next few days:

Case: Zalman Z11 Plus

CPU: FX 8320

GPU: Gigabyte R9 280X

RAM: Kingstone 8GB DDR3

Motherboard: Asus M59A7 Evo

PSU: Corsair 600W Builder Series

SSD: Two SanDisk 64GBs (Will be using RAID 0)

 

I'm planning on purchasing two HDDs to use in RAID 0, I have narrowed it down to these, what would be the best to use in your opinions:

http://www.dabs.ie/products/seagate-1tb-barracuda-sata-6gb-s-64mb-7200rpm-hard-drive-7XD5.html?refs=450300000-56330000-56320000-12-4294963789-376770000-42730000&src=3

http://www.dabs.ie/products/toshiba-1tb-sata-6gb-s-32mb-7200rpm-3-5--hard-drive-8415.html?refs=450300000-56330000-56320000-12-4294963789-376770000-42730000&src=3

http://www.dabs.ie/products/wd-1tb-blue-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-3-5--hard-drive-8757.html?refs=450300000-56330000-56320000-12-4294963789-376770000-42730000&src=3

http://www.dabs.ie/products/wd-1tb-green-sata-6gb-s-64mb-3-5--hard-drive-7Y09.html?refs=450300000-56330000-56320000-12-4294963789-376770000-42730000&src=3

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The WD 1tb Green.

WD have a fantastic warranty service.

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Get the Seagate one out of these and may I suggest WD

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Ideally you would get a RAID optimized drive like a WD Red.  You might encounter a problem where a drive might be dropped from the array becuase of controller issues.

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Hypervisor 1: Intel Xeon E5-2630L, ASRock EPC612D8, 16GB DDR4 ECC RAM, Intel RT3WB080 8-port RAID controller plus expansion card, Norco RPC-4020 case, 20x2TB WD Red HDD

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none. Get a WD Red if you are running them in RAID. The green, while a decent drive, is designed with head parking which can cause it to drop from the array. Seagate is likely a decent drive too. 

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I'm asking what is the best to chose from the ones I have listed above as they are my choices from that website in my price range for two HDDs, I don't want to spend a riculous ammount of money on two hard drives. I'm not asking for alternative suggestions.

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Barracuda

 

I was going to go with it, does anyone else have any other suggestions?

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I was going to go with it, does anyone else have any other suggestions?

Barracudas are hard to go wrong with.

Why are you using raid?

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Barracudas are hard to go wrong with.

Why are you using raid?

 

The program in which I use to record is very HDD intensive even in 720P, those two HDDs will mainly be for recording along with games. So I think I'll go with the Barracuda, anyone else have an opinion?

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The program in which I use to record is very HDD intensive even in 720P, those two HDDs will mainly be for recording along with games. So I think I'll go with the Barracuda, anyone else have an opinion?

 

I don't suppose an SSD for recording and a Barracuda for storage is in the budget?

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I don't suppose an SSD for recording and a Barracuda for storage is in the budget?

 

I already have two SSDs in Raid 0. There will be times when I use the SSD and times when I use the HDD for recording, complicated shtuffs.

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