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In a similar comparison a while ago, I found that the AV and Red drives do limited error recovery. If an AV drive has trouble reading a sector, it just returns the corrupted data (maybe after a few retries) to keep the video stream flowing smoothly: the bad data may show up as a bad frame in the video, but this shouldn't affect video quality too badly. The Red drives are intended to be used in a RAID configuration and also limit their retries, assuming the other RAID drive(s) will cover for the data loss. The enterprise drives were out of my price range so I didn't research them.
I wouldn't use either an AV or Red drive in a single-drive configuration. I'd think you'd want a straight (non-AV) Green drive.
Seagate has a similar stable of drives, presumably with similar characteristics. I've used mostly Seagates and have had several fail over the years but I've got backups that allow me to go for the lower price without worrying too much about lower reliability.
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