As much as how I would like to just buy a ton of SSDs and place them in a NAS, I cant because they are way too pricey for now. So, need help from you guys on deciding which large mechanical HDDs i should get (note i just had 2x 1TB seagate die in my server array).

I was thinking of the following:
1) Western Digital Black Caviar 1TB
2) Western Digital Green Caviar 2TB
3) Seagate Barracuda ES2.0 1TB
are there any other opinions and suggestions?

Importance:
1) decently long lasting
2) decent speed doesnt have to be amazing.
3) low idle and load temps

the most important factor to me is still data safety.
These drives will be placed in a server backup array.

Thanks in advance.

cool thanks. im eyeing the WD green caviars atm.

anyone else have any other opinions?
need something for data storage. performance doesnt really matter.

Rukian

2 terabyte black is good it has 64mb buffer grab it on egg if you can afford for it.

+1.

Amazing drive that has velociraptor speed.

Review: http://www.hardwarecanuck...hard-drive-review.html

5 year warranty.

First off, the OP stated that performance doesn't really matter.  Secondly, the 2TB Caviar Black is hardly a drive that fits the OP's needs considering the cost per TB is $150.

Both the 1.5TB WD Green and 1.5TB Samsung Ecogreen are $110.  He could get 3 for the price that a 2TB Caviar Black would cost.  With three, he would have 4.5TB of space for his data.  Also, these drives aren't no low performers either.  If you read the reviews on them, they are not just considered slow storage drives.

If they are fast enough for me to put games on and watch uncompressed Blu-Ray movies from, they are GREAT!!!

Don't waste your money on that 2TB drive.

I would stick with the wd black, they off a 5yr warranty (best price for a 5yr) are better built and faster.  I been debating on the greens but they seem to have a higher failure rate then the blacks.  Even though I just use mine for storage, I always opt for the extra 20 and get the blacks.  The wd 2tb black just came out so they are proabaly in short supply, unless space is an issue I would wait till they get near 250 to buy.

luv2increase

First off, the OP stated that performance doesn't really matter.  Secondly, the 2TB Caviar Black is hardly a drive that fits the OP's needs considering the cost per TB is $150.

Um, thanks luv.  I can read you know.  The OP stated:

mikotan
Importance:
1) decently long lasting

I have lots of experience with the Blacks, both with myself and with customers.  Of the 12 drives I have personally installed....no failures or problems to report.  WD trusts these drives enough to give them a 5 year warranty.  So I think the 2TB Black does fit the OP's #1 item of importance.

mikotan
Importance:
2) decent speed doesnt have to be amazing.

The 2TB Black does have decent speed so it also meets the OP's #2 requirement.  Just because it has amazing speed doesn't disqualify it.  The OP said it doesn't HAVE to have amazing speed......he didn't say it CAN'T HAVE amazing speed.

as for the cost of $150/GB, that's doesn't seem to matter since the OP didn't list cost as the 3 most important criteria.  So it seems that the 2TB Caviar Black does fit the OP's needs.

mikotan
Importance:
3) low idle and load temps

They run cool.  In the last 12 hours of heavy use, the hottest that either of my 1TB Blacks have been is 32C.......with an ambient air temp of 22.5C.

Both the 1.5TB WD Green and 1.5TB Samsung Ecogreen are $110.  He could get 3 for the price that a 2TB Caviar Black would cost.  With three, he would have 4.5TB of space for his data.  Also, these drives aren't no low performers either.  If you read the reviews on them, they are not just considered slow storage drives.

If they are fast enough for me to put games on and watch uncompressed Blu-Ray movies from, they are GREAT!!!

Don't waste your money on that 2TB drive.

I am running two WD Green 1TB drives in my file server.  Haven't had it up long enough to speak to longevity (maybe 6 months so far), but they are very quiet and cool and I wouldn't hesitate to buy more in the future.

Thanks for all the input everyone.

I purchased -
1x 1tb black caviar
1x 1tb green caviar
1x samsung ecogreen

I will see how things go with these 3 drives. hopefully they all last well.
As well as the old (pre-seagate) maxtor drives that has lasted me 10 years so far x.X!