Which ~300gb hard drive?

danceMB · 6 Jun 2006 at 08:16

How much of a performance improvement am I likely to see over my 7200.8 120gig? Im on S478 (ABIT IC-7 Max 3) if that helps

Jay_t · 7 Jun 2006 at 12:14

Link

OCUK have a good deal on this badboy

easyrider · 7 Jun 2006 at 12:47

In a word

Seagate

Imy · 7 Jun 2006 at 14:08

I'd recommend Seagate also - any of the .10's.

JimmyEatWorms · 8 Jun 2006 at 14:02

Are the current barracuda drives still quiet? I seem to remember a few years back that they were the top recomendation for silent running.

danceMB · 9 Jun 2006 at 08:12

danceMB said:
How much of a performance improvement am I likely to see over my 7200.8 120gig? Im on S478 (ABIT IC-7 Max 3) if that helps

Any ideas?

humax · 9 Jun 2006 at 14:43

well i have the 320gig 10 and its very quiet

vdechpokket · 15 Jun 2006 at 12:26

So is "Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache" better than "Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache"???

I thought western digital is known for better HD performance???

smids · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:07

vdechpokket said:
So is "Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache" better than "Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache"???

I thought western digital is known for better HD performance???

No, the Seagate will wipe the floor with that WD because they use different technologies. The Seagate uses the new perpendicular technology and mine gets 67.4Mb/s sustained transfer rates compared with about 57MB/s for the WD on old tech. Not only that, it is a Seagate so is very well built and should last for ages. I bought mine and have found nothing at all wrong with it - it is quiet, fast and no doubt should be reliable.

James101 · 15 Jun 2006 at 20:18

ok so this new perpendicular storage is good, but are you actually gonna see
much performance gain ?

also am i right in thinking that the newer perpendicular drives dont have NCQ,

so will the SataII Barracuda 7200.9 300GB (with NCQ) not be faster?

smids · 15 Jun 2006 at 21:37

James101 said:
ok so this new perpendicular storage is good, but are you actually gonna see
much performance gain ?

also am i right in thinking that the newer perpendicular drives dont have NCQ,

so will the SataII Barracuda 7200.9 300GB (with NCQ) not be faster?

The newer drives are significantly faster and all Seagates since 7200.7 on SATA have NCQ. Don't forget, double the cache, new technology, higher density platters - it wipes the floor with pretty much all other 7200rpm drives.