Between NAS branded vs Surveillance hdds, which is better for video encoding 24/7? I would think both are reliable for 24/7 use, I just don’t know which is best for my needs. 24/7 handbrake use.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822231534&cm_re=3tb_hdd--22-231-534--Product
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIABZ062G7657&cm_re=3tb_hdd--22-236-344--Product
purely based on opinion (perhaps not purely, but mostly) - the red would be your goto. the surveillance disks are targeting low bitrate writing, meanwhile a red has a more normal approach to serve read and writes. Perhaps someone has an even better insight here :).
Do you mean writing to them? Surveillance drives are designed to work best for writes constantly with minimal reads.
Okay. Thank you for your opinion.
For me, I use handbrake and the way it works is by simultaneously reading from a source file, encoding said file in the ram, and saving to a different format on the same drive. So yes for my purposes writing, but also reading while writing.
You are welcome - but you just confirmed how your read and writes works, and performance wise there should be penalties with the surveillance drive.
https://www.wdc.com/content/dam/wdc/website/downloadable_assets/eng/spec_data_sheet/2879-800012.pdf
fact-sheet for the purple states that it’s firmware is ‘special’, would be suprised otherwise. And the rest of the data rings good for my opinion, check the reliability portions.
And here is the sheet for the red;
Will lurk and hope that anyone has hands on experience of the purple.
has purple in its reviw
In a jbod using zfs that maxes out the band width of your interface I have a tough time justifying the price of NAS drives. To me this seems like a cash grab.
Do the purples support TLER?
If the drives are in a raid, you typically want TLER so that a failing drive doesn’t hang the system.