Best Biggest Hard Drive For me

[lambchops3344]

Well right now i have two 74 gig raptors in raid on a asus sli premium and its just not enough space. So i went off looking for a bigger drive. I eliminated a good amount of the compitition by factoring out anything with less than a 16mb buffer which left me with a few choices that i would appreciate your help with. Please dont just say any will do fine or this ones cheaper because i want the fastest.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3173558

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Maxtor_D..._10_6L300S0_300GB_Hard_Drive,__8871884

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3584980

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Western_...aviar_SE16_400GB_Hard_Drive,__10027461

Right now im leaning toward the last one wich is western digitals rev.2 of the caviar
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=158

HELP!

 

[Icopoli]

Doesn't Samsung or Sony have a 500GB drive?

 

[lambchops3344]

so does hitachi i think... but i only want one of the ones listed...

i also found this WD that has the 300 MB/sec maximum transfer rate but i herd it doesnt make much of a diffrence...

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Western_...B_Hard_Drive,__9047985/search=WD2500KS

so i dunno which of those...

 

[imported_Phil]

16MB cache won't offer you any real-world, noticeable performance increase over 8MB.

Seagate 400Gb 7200.8.

 

[lambchops3344]

also hows the Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8


EDIT: you pulled the words out of my mouth... ill take a look at this one

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: lambchops3344
so does hitachi i think... but i only want one of the ones listed...

i also found this WD that has the 300 MB/sec maximum transfer rate but i herd it doesnt make much of a diffrence...

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Western_...B_Hard_Drive,__9047985/search=WD2500KS

so i dunno which of those...

That's the interface transfer rate.
The media transfer rate of the drive will be between 55MB/sec and 65MB/sec.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: lambchops3344
also hows the Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8

Very reliable, and pretty quick, from my first-hand experience with it.

 

[lambchops3344]

so the fact that the Seagate 400Gb 7200.8 only has an 8mb buffer, maximum transfer rate of 100 MBytes/sec, and only Ultra ATA/100 still makes it better than all those others that i listed?

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: lambchops3344
so the fact that the Seagate 400Gb 7200.8 only has an 8mb buffer, maximum transfer rate of 100 MBytes/sec, and only Ultra ATA/100 still makes it better than all those others that i listed?

Did you even read what I posted?

No current IDE or SATA drive (Raptor excluded) can break 65-70MB/sec.

You are talking about the interface transfer speed, which has no bearing on the real-world performance.

 

[lambchops3344]

yes i get it but im still confused on which drive to get... the seagate does look very promising when looking at these benchmarks

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050317/seagate-05.html

but unfortunatly those new western digitals arnt on it... any other opinions?

 

[lambchops3344]

also im not neccisarily looking for the biggest if my title is misleading you... something around 300 or 400 is plenty...

 

[imported_Phil]

Maxtors are generally considered to be the fastest 7200rpm drives, however their reliability can be poor. Note that this comes from an avid Maxtor fan, who has had 0 failures with Maxtor drives. Sadly, I've seen the "waiting to be RMA'd" shelf at work, and it's full of Maxtor drives.

Hitachi are mostly considered to be either tied for first place with regards to speed, or a close second.

Seagates are behind them; not the fastest, but most people here will agree that they are the best all-rounder. 5-year warranty, very quiet operation, cool running and pretty quick to boot.

My 200Gb 7200.7 8MB cache achieves 69MB/sec at the start of an HDTach test.

 

[lambchops3344]

alright well thats good to hear... this is going to be used mostley as a storage drive so i want something that can transfer data very quickley... i also might put a copy of windows on it just incase one of my raptors fails or something but that would only be for backup... the noise of my raptors pretty much fills my case with noise as it is so im not to worried about noise. Ive also never had a hard drive fail on me and i now have 4 wds and 3 maxtors. I have really good airflow in my case too so im also not worried about cooling.

Thanks so much for your help phil.

 

[fierydemise]

Don't forget Samsung, they are by far the quietest and just as fast or faster then the seagates

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: lambchops3344
alright well thats good to hear... this is going to be used mostley as a storage drive so i want something that can transfer data very quickley... i also might put a copy of windows on it just incase one of my raptors fails or something but that would only be for backup... the noise of my raptors pretty much fills my case with noise as it is so im not to worried about noise. Ive also never had a hard drive fail on me and i now have 4 wds and 3 maxtors. I have really good airflow in my case too so im also not worried about cooling.

Thanks so much for your help phil.

No problem :thumbsup:

 

[lambchops3344]

bump for opinions

 

[lambchops3344]

no one knows?

 

[amdskip]

Seagate or samsung.

 

[Weatherton]

Check my profile for my purchasing decisions... Maxtor for Boot drive Seagate's in RAID 1 for storage. When you say you want a hd for storage, your most important goal should be the safety of that data not the speed at which you can copy to it.

 

[Promethply]

Originally posted by: lambchops3344
Well right now i have two 74 gig raptors in raid on a asus sli premium and its just not enough space. So i went off looking for a bigger drive. I eliminated a good amount of the compitition by factoring out anything with less than a 16mb buffer which left me with a few choices that i would appreciate your help with. Please dont just say any will do fine or this ones cheaper because i want the fastest.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3173558

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Maxtor_D..._10_6L300S0_300GB_Hard_Drive,__8871884

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3584980

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Western_...aviar_SE16_400GB_Hard_Drive,__10027461

Right now im leaning toward the last one wich is western digitals rev.2 of the caviar
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=158

HELP!

I'd go with your 4th choice (the 400GB WD Caviar SE16).

 

[ryan256]

Go with the newer Segates. 5 year warrenty on those puppies!

 

[lambchops3344]

warrentys dont concern me... but you are very right about having reliability being a big factor over speed since it is a storage drive. For this reason i am settleing with the Western Digital 400gb. It has the speed, space, price, and reliability im looking for.

 

[Valkerie]

http://www.dell.com

500GB HD

 

[KeepItRed]

Dell sells a 600GB 7200RPM Hard drive, I believe it's WD or Maxtor.

 

[Tiamat]

Seagate 7200.8 series arent very great. Noisy, run hot, and yeah, noisy. The .7 series was much better on both counts. Id get a couple Samsung 200gb drives.