Any good harddisk brands?

I don't speak Dutch. : l

I has a WD Green (EARS 1.5TB) and it has a huge latency problem if your doing 2 things at once.
Like playing TF2 while copying a dvd image from A to B: TF2 will lag like hell whenever it has to load the tiniest files such as gibs or ambient sounds or a sprite which didn't get precached at load-time.

This is a random-access benchmark of the WD Green while copying a 25gb file off the WD to another disk:

Most of the read-ops are in the normal 60-80 ms timeframe and you won't notice those but you will notice and almost throw you PC out the window for each tiny read-op that takes longer than 150ms and theres quite a few compared to my other (Samsung) HDD on load.

If your only using it for storage: Go for it. I easily get 100mb/s throughput while reading or writing as long as thats the only thing it does.

Well the Green Drives are not designed for performance, as the word Green implies it is low energy usage.

If its performance you want, you will want to look at the WD Black range.

(or if you are a nut grab some 10,000 rpm SCSI drives )

Also, I'd avoid Samsung drives, I have only ever had Samsung Drives fail.

http://www.mycom.nl/Product/Opslag-Hard ... ck/1082400 Less TB Storage, a nice 7200 rpm. And 50% cheaper then the 2 tb version so.

I think this is it guys, thanks for your awesome help!

Cheers
Flappah / Penguin.

Remember, what you want to look at mostly, is the transfer rate, because that's really all that matters.
I usually prefer Seagate. Had some nice experiences with them.