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[RC_cat]

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.

[gunrunnerjohn]

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.

[lookingforinfo]

I have had no problems using two WD20EADS drives.

[dosborne]

- 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.

[Rodent]

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.

[jamieburchell]

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.

[Rodent]

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.

[gunrunnerjohn]

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.

[jamieburchell]

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

[gunrunnerjohn]

Well, I was assuming the drive was functional! 

[RC_cat]

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.

[jamieburchell]

Now I've pushed mine in the slot fully, it seems to be working fine so far