On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Matt Poff <<a href="mailto:matt.poff@headfirst.co.nz">matt.poff@headfirst.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Looking at adding a new drive to the Myth box and pretty much settled<br>
on a Seagate because they represent pretty good price/performance. I<br>
see they have a new product line targeting the digital video<br>
surveillance market. The product can write multiple streams at once<br>
(which sounds useful for multiplexed simultaneous recordings).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>They do seem to have slightly better MTBF and power usage specs. They don't offer better actual performance as far as I can see and they're just as loud. I can't see any great reason to use one instead of a Barracuda. If you are really limited by drive performance you should probably look at using storage groups or RAID across multiple drives.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br></div></div><br>