F3 Spinpoint, 500GB or 1TB model ?

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Hi guys after a bit of advice...

I'm going to order a new F3 Spinpoint, i'm afraid the SSD's are still out of my affordable reach and the budget SSDs from what I can tell still don't out perform the F3?

My question though is which model of the F3 to go for, firstly the size doesn't matter (despite what they say;)) however there is a £10 price difference between the two so at the end of the day for me it'll come to to performance gains.

I know the F3 1Tb has a 32mb cache where as the F3 500Gb only has 16mb, performance wise would this make much of a difference in read/write performance?? If it does i'll splash the extra tenner.

Thanks in advance.
 
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OK so I'm feeling 1TB then!

However a few have mentioned F4, have there been any trustworthy reviews yet ?

From what I can tell the F4 has sacrified storage space for performance but Ive not found a direct comparison between F3 and F4 yet.
 
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