Hard drive advice for my new rig

[mogwai]

I have recently put together a new pc (see signature). The hard drives I am using are a 320 Gb Seagate 7200.10 16meg cache for Vista and programs, and a 500 Gb Seagate 7200.11 16 meg cache for games and data. I have been having a go with the Vista Experience Index; everything scores 5.9 except for my primary hard drive (the 7200.10) which comes out at 5.7. As it would happen this is the only component I took out of my pc that this new is replacing.

I have attached the HD TUNE score for both of these drives the 7200.11 scoring better than the 7200.10 so this would seem to rule out a motherboard/driver issue. I have also removed the jumper on both drives to allow them to operate in SATA II mode.

System drive Seagate 7200.10 320 Gb 16 Mb cache

Data drive Seagate 7200.11 500 Gb 16 Mb cache

What make me even more confused is that my new work pc (HP DC7800 with an E6700, 2 GB RAM) that is also running vista, albeit 32bit rather than the 64bit I have at home. Scores 5.9 for its hard drive which would appear to be a slower version of my current 7200.10 as it is a 250 Gb Seagate 7200.10 with 8 meg cache.

Work PC Seagate 7200.10 320 Gb 16 Mb cache

So I am now looking for a different drive to use as a system disk any recommendations? I was thinking of a couple of the new Samsung F1 320 Gb in RAID 0 but them seem to be very hard to come by.

 

[rpstewart]

Firstly don't take the Vista Experience Index to mean anything, it's a guess at best.

Secondly, how do you manage to get out of focus screenshots? They look really bizarre.

 

[mogwai]

The VEI aside it would seem that my current c:\ seems to be a lot slower than my other drive and also the one in my work pc. As for the screen shot , I had made them bigger than they where originally and then shrunk them again. Which was done away from the pc so I could not recreate the originals.

Any suggestions for alternative disks?