Boot drive - Samsung or WD?

[Curio]

Spinpoint F4 320MB or Caviar Black? As I understand it, F4 has better transfer speeds, but the WD has better access time? Which would be more suited as a boot/OS drive? Will be using Adobe CS and a bit of gaming.

I want to stick to those 2 brands as they're my manufacturers of choice when it comes to drives.

Thanks!

 

[mikeo]

To be totally honest, I doubt if there's that much between either of them. I've had a WD black, then a Velociraptor and now an SSD and I would say that all of them performed well as a boot drive. Obviously the SSD has the edge. But I've not found it so "WOW" as some folks have made it out (though benchmarks obviously impressive). In my 20+ years experience with PC's (yes I'm an old fart) I've always found that boot time is much more effected by a) your mobo/BIOS and the apps that you have kicked off at start-up (only my opinion of course).

As an example. The biggest improvement that I've seen in recent times to my boot time, is when I ditched Kaspersky AV and replaced it with MSE.

I've always liked WD drives (maybe I've been lucky). The 5 year warranty on their better drives says it all as far as I'm concerned (though who keeps a drive much more than a couple of years really!). Though nothing wrong with Samsung, or Seagate drives either (I've used a number myself).

Toss coin. I doubt you will be disappointed in either of your suggestions.

 

[SoildSnake]

access time is more important than transfer speed when using as an OS drive no? I am assuming you are considering the 640GB black? its twice the price, but i think would be better