Can't afford SSD, which is the best SATA as my OS drive?

krooton

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My 80GB Samsung is pretty long in the tooth, and I think it might be holding my Win7 back a bit.

SSD would be nice, but too pricey for my needs, ditto with 10k rpm drives (and they are too loud).

So I'm looking to get a new, small (80-250GB) SATA drive. £33ish seems to be the going rate, but I can't decide between what WD/Samsung/Seagate are offering.

From a spec perspective, they are pretty much identical. 16MB cache would obviously be preferable to 8MB.

So which around that price range would be best as my OS drive?
 
Bigger drives tend to be newer, faster and quieter. Considering your sig, can't you add a few £ to the budget?
Hang on, what's that I see, 2x 1TB Samsungs!!!!! And you've been living with a slow OS for how long?
 
weird_dave said:
Bigger drives tend to be newer, faster and quieter. Considering your sig, can't you add a few £ to the budget?
Hang on, what's that I see, 2x 1TB Samsungs!!!!! And you've been living with a slow OS for how long?
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I just liked keeping my OS on a separate physical drive from my data :D

500GB F3 looks to be the way to go, but out of stock in the places where I get free delivery :(
 
krooton said:
I just liked keeping my OS on a separate physical drive from my data :D

500GB F3 looks to be the way to go, but out of stock in the places where I get free delivery :(
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I reckon they will get stock in pretty quickly as it is a popular make/size/version...
 
alex h said:
if you cant wait the wd black 500 is also good but its 7 pounds more than the samsung
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+1 for a Caviar Black, I got the 500gb Recently for OS, games and Apps and its pretty good.

Feels 'nippier' and is a lot quiter than my old 74GB Raptor. Good Buy.
 
Is there any performance gains from 4k sectors? If so it might be worth waiting for the WD blacks to get updated.
 
Still no stock of F3s in either place!! :(

On a different note, has drive imaging improved over the years? I'm feeling lazy and would love to ghost my current Win7 to the new drive rather than install everything, is this a viable process these days? They used to be pretty shoddy back in the 90s.
 
got the WD caviar black 640 as my data drive but when I had it as a OS drive it was blistering quick, Windows 7 rated the drive as 5.9.
 
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