Philips 5990 need advice on what HDD to get.

[s-toon]

Hi, I have a philips 5990 and had a WD 1TB My Book HDD where I stored everything from movies, tv shows, to anime, and cartoons. Well I dropped it one too many times and its now dead. Ok so now im looking for a new HDD and are going to get another one but bigger. Im wanting to get a 2TB HDD.

Here is what im looking at right now.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Western-Digital-WDBAAF0020HBK-NESN-2TB-My-Book-Essential-USB...Drive/12517497

and

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Western-Digital-WDBAAU0020HBK-NESN-Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive/13055863

Ok so just need to know wich one is better (and what the difference is between the 2, besides the price lol) for what I need it for. The first one is $139 and the second one is $119.54

[edDV]

To work with the 5990/92, the drive needs to be formatted FAT32.

I recently purchased a Hitachi 2TB external drive. This shipped with the entire drive formatted FAT32 so that it would work immediately with Windows, MacOSX or Linux. It came with software links and instructions to convert to NTFS, Mac or Linux formats. I was very impressed with the ease of setup and the speed of this drive. The drive inside is 7200 RPM. For my needs I changed FAT32 partition size to 80GB, then created a second partition which I formatted to NTFS. I did all this with PartdMagic, a live Linux CD.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:eek:ffic...d=0CDoQ8wIwAg#
http://download.cnet.com/Parted-Magic-LiveCD/3000-2094_4-10663999.html

Check to see how the WD drives are formatted. Also keep in mind that FAT32 limits file size to 4GB and the 5990 menu structure supports a limited number of files. The rest go unseen.

[s-toon]

yeah i know all about the 5990's limits.

check this out
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/303912-Philips-DVP-5990-37-question

and this, look for my posts,
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/315578-DVP-5990-and-Exteranal-HDs?highlight=s-toon

I have done my homework,

Just need to know wich one is better. I will be dividing it (partition) in half, and formating it to fat32. Half will be for movies and tv shows, and the other half for anime and cartoons. Don't care about the 4gb size limit. All of my movies are around 700mb, single episode for tv shows are about 350mb, and anime and cartoons are about 175-250mb for single episode.

just wanting to know what the difference is between the 2 because they are both 2TB, if anyone can help.

Thanks,

[MJA]

the feed back from the WD Elements is better than the Essentials

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Essential-External-WDBAAF0020HBK-NESN/product-re...rBy=addOneStar

plus the Essentials comes with extra software embedded

Technical Details

• Automatic, continuous backup
• Visual drive control center
• Password protection and 256-bit encryption
• Illuminated capacity gauge
• USB 2.0 interface

what do u think about this setup ?
samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB 5400RPM.(This drive is based on the new 667GB platters+ 3 years warranty)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245

Thermaltake BlacX external docking station 2.5"/3.5" USB 2.0/eSATA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071

[edDV]

Depending on the application, seek time can be critical for drive performance. You may need to dig find the specs for the drive inside the case. I do notice better general performance for that 7200 RPM Hitachi drive vs. several WD and Seagate external USB2 drives.

eSATA always gives better performance vs. USB2.

[s-toon]

Thanks, don't know why I didn't think of going on amazon and checking the reviews, guess just slipped my mind lol. The reason I posted the links from walmart was because I have a $120 gift card for walmart lol. And guess I will be going with the one that is $119 (elements) as it has better reviews then the other one.

[MJA]

save the gift card for groceries,and buy the drive from amazon/newegg(no Tax,free shipping) save more this way

[DarrellS]

With the lack of e-SATA on new external drives, I'd go with an external enclosure and a good 7200rpm SATA drive.

I have an external enclosure already and my computer case has an e-SATA hot plug on top so I rarely even use the external enclosure for transferring files.

You might want to just buy a 2TB HDD and put in the MY Book enclosure that you already have. It should be pretty easy to open up since you've dropped it a few times.

I have no idea why HDD manufacturers stopped making e-SATA external drives unless it was just to make you pay more for USB 3.0 drives but there are only a couple of those so it really makes no sense at all. One reason could be that since the e-SATA combo drives were not that much more than a USB drive that hardly anyone was buying the USB drive and they were losing money with the extra cost of offering e-SATA and firewire.