Hitachi 2TB 5K3000 Green drive not in HCL ?

As a followup to your question;

- The drives have been running since Feb 1, 2012
- The drives are plenty fast as my raid array easily saturates a 1gbps network
- Plex works 100% over wired clients, I imagine I could feed about 6 streams
- Plex works fine over wireless, but at about 3 clients single band 802.11n is saturated and can’t keep up
- See this for stats on the streaming: http://imgur.com/a/5RC6m

I’d say you could run 3 streams to appletv or computers, and 2 feeds to ipads/wifi with no notice of impact.
Now if you really have 5 people in 1 house needing to watch 5+ different shows there might be some other questions for a PM.

So the answer is, the drives work great. I just wish they were 5TB

I bought them for $175 each, they now cost more (I guess due to flooding)
http://www.microcenter.com/single_produ ... id=0361177

Now when 4K mkv's or whatever container are used in 5 years, a gigabit network will barely handle 1 compressed feed.
Uncompressed 4k is 3.8gbps (477MB/s) I am sure we will use 801.11ad (Wigig 7gbps) and OLED 4K tvs to stream by then. :)