Current best 7200rpm 8MB cache SATA drive?

Roll · 21 Nov 2006 at 19:57

Hello,

I'm posting this for a mate who hasn't yet registered.

He's about to buy a couple of SATA drives somewhere between 160GB-250GB each to build a medium sized RAID array and is considering the following:

Hitachi Deskstar
Samsung SpinPoint P
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition

All are priced similarly.

He's discounted going for Maxtor drives as they seem to suffer reliability problems.

Just wondered if anyone could say which of these would be the best to go for and why?

Thanks a lot for replies

Fireskull · 21 Nov 2006 at 20:32

Im guessing everyone would say the Seagate 7200.10 drives they seem to be the best IMO.

Roll · 21 Nov 2006 at 20:33

Fireskull said:
Im guessing everyone would say the Seagate 7200.10 drives they seem to be the best IMO.

Thanks, they seem to start at 200GB so I'll point my mate in their direction.

collisster · 21 Nov 2006 at 21:52

what was the thing about the 7200.10 being noisey? is this true?

Snapshot · 22 Nov 2006 at 07:20

There seem to be different motors used in the 7200.10s and some are noisier than others. There may be some correlation to the colour of the insulation on them or to the factory the drives are assembled in but no-one's done a definitive survey yet. I can say that my two 400GB drives are very quiet, just clicking a bit when accessing.

Jonathan

Fireskull · 22 Nov 2006 at 10:11

yea there is an image somewhere where you can tell which is the noisy version, i thankfully didnt get a noisy one and cudnt be happier with it

Roll · 22 Nov 2006 at 10:17

I guess its just luck of the draw then as to which version of the Seagate you get?

What do you all think of the other drives on the list?

Hitachi Deskstar
Samsung SpinPoint P
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition

Fireskull · 22 Nov 2006 at 11:02

For me it would be the seagate or the WD, but id probbly go for the lucky draw seagate because they are the fastest 7200 (.10) drives there are (am i right lol?)