Seagate vs Samsung

[Varun]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
just go to Anandtech's SATA II roundup: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2454

samsung's obviously quieter and though the 7200.9 isn't in the review, i doubt it will be too much ahead of the 7200.8 or 7200.7.

the samsung and seagate are around the same temps so no winner there.

it really matters on what you're doing to determine performance. in file unzipping/copying, one is better at unzipping/copying 300 1mb files and the other is better at 1 300mb file. so it depends on if you deal with large files or not.

otherwise, the Seagate is the best gaming drive as far, as level loading goes, and the samsung is better in most other fields.

I trust Anandtech more than any other review site. The only issue I have this time is that they also do not have a review for the P120 Spinpoint, and are using a P80 with the less dense platters for their review. The P120 has gotten great reviews for performance, to add to a drive which was already the leader in heat and noise.

 

[wchou]

Samsung is faster, Seagate 50 percent slower. You have to defrag often or it will crawl to a turtle, samsung does not have this problem.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
I am torn between 2 HDD.

I either want to get the 160Gig Seagate 7200.9.

Or I want to get the 200Gig Samsung Spinpoint drive.

I am going to get to and put it in RAID 0 simply because i want to work with RAID, and tinker around.

My question is, which will be quieter? Which will perform better?

Will 2x very quiet HDD's be much noticable over 1. I am planning on putting these in a P180 case.

apparently that 200gb samsung drive is both uber quiet and a stellar performer, i read it in a pretty decent computer mag the other month, it performed at the top in alot of tests

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
I am torn between 2 HDD.

I either want to get the 160Gig Seagate 7200.9.

Or I want to get the 200Gig Samsung Spinpoint drive.

I am going to get to and put it in RAID 0 simply because i want to work with RAID, and tinker around.

My question is, which will be quieter? Which will perform better?

Will 2x very quiet HDD's be much noticable over 1. I am planning on putting these in a P180 case.

apparently that 200gb samsung drive is both uber quiet and a stellar performer, i read it in a pretty decent computer mag the other month, it performed at the top in alot of tests

Well based on these recommendations, i think i am going with 2x 200Gig drives. Is there any compelling reason (noise/heat wise) not to go with a RAID 0 array. Obviously it will be marginally hotter and louder, but is it so much of a difference that it will be noticable from ~.5 meters away.

-Kevin