HDD performance

Howski · 17 Jun 2006 at 14:10

Hi,
I'm just about to get a new HDD for my system an originally I was thinking of getting the Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB however I've noticed that you can get the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB for about £17 extra and I'm tempted as you can never have enough HDD space and you get the 5 year warranty. Anyway I had a quick look at tomshardware and could not find any benchmarks so does anyone know where I can get a comparison on speed. The system is going to be pretty much only for games so I want to make sure there is no speed loss.
Cheers
-How.

Messiah Khan · 17 Jun 2006 at 15:04

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB is one of the fastest SATA drives you can get, bar the Raptors. Have a look on http://www.storagereview.com/ for comparisons of drives.

jellybeard999 · 17 Jun 2006 at 15:06

the new Seagates are fast by all accounts...

Any difference is going to be minimal in use... less than 1 second game loading difference id imagine

Howski · 17 Jun 2006 at 15:57

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB is one of the fastest SATA drives you can get

Cool I'll get one of those then....

Any difference is going to be minimal in use... less than 1 second game loading difference id imagine

Thats true but faster is faster

-How.