Getting New Sata Drive

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I've made my decision on a WD Caviar 250gb 16MB Cache, but there are 2 drives which look the same but have a price difference of £2, is there a difference between:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)

and

Western Digital Caviar RE 250GB 2500YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-104-WD)

other than the picture being different? :rolleyes:

(Edit: This is my first Sata drive, so i don't have a clue really :D )
 
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I've been also thinking about Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE)

I've read that these are very good drives as well, The drive I am replacing is a 120gig Maxtor IDE drive which came with my old Compaq pressario 4 years ago ( :confused: spelling?) This drive will be my main drive to run windows and games etc. while my second drive which I have is a 200gig Seagate Barracuda IDE drive which will be my storage drive for files etc.

Which between the Seagate and WD would be my best selection, and will I notice a big performance difference using one of these drives to that of my Maxtor? I will be partitioning my new drive for Windows then games, which i don't have at the moment.
 
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