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New Hard Drive.

barry181091 · 2008-03-01 02:23:54

Hey Guys, Im buying a new HDD as my current 200gb sata is becoming unstable. I want a 500gb and have decided to buy it from komplett.. I have narrowed my choices to these few: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB, SATA-300,…

01-03-2008 2:23am

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Hey Guys,

Im buying a new HDD as my current 200gb sata is becoming unstable. I want a 500gb and have decided to buy it from komplett.. I have narrowed my choices to these few:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM

Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB, SATA-300, 32MB, 7200RPM

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM

Theres my short list , I have read reviews of them and it is hard to choose which one is really the best, So just want some advice.

EDIT: Just to say that I mostly use my main HDD for watching tv shows/movies/HD files, Games, and some fairly high resource software Eg Autocad.Also, a load of internet usage. Just thought that might help.
Barry.

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#2 01-03-2008 10:44am

sebastianlieken

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read this

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#3 01-03-2008 7:00pm

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB, SATA-300, 32MB, 7200RPM

has 32mb the other's only have 16mb.

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#4 01-03-2008 7:40pm

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Yeah, i know 32mb is *shold* prove to have greater preformance over 16mb dreives. But thats not the case with that samsung drive, Just read some of its reviews, Not too good.

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