Harddrive has died on me.

dmxdex2020 · 6 Mar 2010 at 00:53

My westerm digital 500gb HDD has died on me. so i am looking at a new HDD. got around 45 quid i was looking at this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-206-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

Im mainly a gamer. would thw 16mb of cache slow load times down compared to the 32mb of cache the WD had?

Essexraptor · 6 Mar 2010 at 12:08

Unless you have a stopwatch or are heavily into benchmarking I'd doubt that you would notice much difference in the cache sizing on these 7200rpm drives. I have a couple of Seagate 750Gb 32Mb cache drives on my gaming rig.

When I'm running my other rig alongside, with older so called "slower" 8Mb cache drives I can't really see a load time difference in everyday applications.

Anyway, the Seagate 500Gb ones your looking at review well!!

jbloggs · 6 Mar 2010 at 12:15

Difference between 16MB and 32MB cache...not really noticeable...

However, 8MB to 16MB is quite noticeable...

You might also want to consider the Samsung F3 (500GB)

Essexraptor · 6 Mar 2010 at 12:28

Yup... +1 on the F3

dmxdex2020 · 6 Mar 2010 at 12:31

i have heard the seagate is the better one is the samsung f1 better?

Essexraptor · 6 Mar 2010 at 12:36

I'm very pleased with my Seagate's and the warranty and RMA service seems to very good as well. a lot of guys on here have reccommended the Sammy F3 because it's a very quick drive!! and not a bad price at a shade under 42 quid!

mmj_uk · 6 Mar 2010 at 13:58

I had a couple of 7200.12's in RAID and one of them developed bad sectors so another vote for the Samsung F3 from me (using now).