7200.8 or 7200.10 as main drive?

[Cyber-Mav]

hi all, ok here is whats happening. my current main c: drive is a 250gig 7200.8 8mb cache drive.
my secondary 160gig maxtor slave drive developed bad sectors so i ordered a 250gig 7200.10 seagate 16mb cache drive to replace it as a slave.

now im wondering is it worth me cloning the partitions over to make the 7200.10 drive the main c: drive in the pc or should i just leave it as the slave?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

perpendicular tech is a little slower on seaks but the higher data density means its a little quicker on transfers. in the real world its probably on par with the older generation drives.

also my main boot drive hardly gets a thrashing. its my second drive the old maxtor that really got battered since its used for network access and supplying data across the the network, video encoding and general file storage area.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

just recieved my 250gig 7200.10 drive today and ran a hdtune benchmark on it,

it clears around 10mb per second extra in its transfer rates from start to end compared to my 7200.8 250gig drive.

very good speed increase from a 2 generation gap.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

this seagate drive is very good. i do notice the difference if speed over the 160gig maxtor it replaced. the 7200.10 is quicker and im happy it comes with a 5 year warranty, the 2 maxtor drives which died on me only came with a 1 year warranty and funny enough they failed after 1 year of use.

stick to seagate from now on.

not sure what maxtor is trying to pull i got the older DX740 series of maxtor drives in many different machines and they still run fine even till today. i got a 13.6gig 7200rpm maxtor in my download pc which runs 24/7 all the time for the last 7 years and that drive has not failed me.

gess they are skimping on the newer drives, not sure why seagate even bothered to buy them out.