Fastest Sata HDD?

Sirrel Squirrel · 6 Dec 2007 at 19:28

What's the fastest Sata HDD (excluding the Raptors, too expensive for the storage) out there at the moment, not too fussed about the size, it'll only be used for Windows and Apps. Got other hard drives for storage, games, music, video etc.

Will_3rd · 6 Dec 2007 at 19:31

The Samsung F1 drives are supposed to be good.

The ones on OCUK come in 750gb and 1tb flavours

helmutcheese · 6 Dec 2007 at 19:31

That WD 750GB has the claim on fastest (not sure if still the case).

Dont know model etc but not hard to find out.

Sirrel Squirrel · 6 Dec 2007 at 19:35

They're all a bit too big though, won't need anymore that 250GB probably as currently I'm only using 30GB on my Windows drive.

Will_3rd · 6 Dec 2007 at 19:37

Just get a small WD AAKS drive then very nippy.

Skyboat · 6 Dec 2007 at 19:41

Samsung F1s are king atm, but currently only available in 750Gb and 1Tb flavours, will have to wait for smaller capacities.

jbloggs · 6 Dec 2007 at 22:53

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB - (ST3250410AS) is fast, this is the new 250GB single platter version....had 2 of these in RAID0 a couple of weeks ago, and although not as "snappy" as 16MB cache Raptors, they certainly are great value for the money...HDTach was giving an Average read of 85MB/s (for a single HDD, almost double that for a RAID0 set up), Post #507....

Sirrel Squirrel · 8 Dec 2007 at 11:03

jbloggs said:
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB - (ST3250410AS) is fast, this is the new 250GB single platter version....had 2 of these in RAID0 a couple of weeks ago, and although not as "snappy" as 16MB cache Raptors, they certainly are great value for the money...HDTach was giving an Average read of 85MB/s (for a single HDD, almost double that for a RAID0 set up), Post #507....

That's really good, think I'll go for one of them.