New 1TB drive

[timmillwood]

I'll be getting a new 1TB HDD before the end of the year to replace my 400GB IDE drive.

It will be my main drive so looking for the fastest, but don't wanna pay over the odds. I am willing to pay twice the price for twice the speed, but other than that, i'd rather pay less.

Is 6Gb/s worth it?
Does the cache size really make much difference?

 

[Surveyor]

Is 6Gb/s worth it?

No, it makes no difference with HDD's as they aren't fast enough to get anywhere the maximum speed of SATA 2.

Does the cache size really make much difference?

No.

It will be my main drive so looking for the fastest, but don't wanna pay over the odds.

Samsung F3 1TB

7,200-RPM terabytes from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD face off


But you don't want to be buying any hard drives in the near future unless you have to.

Prices have increased around 50% over the last few days due to flooding in Thailand.

Hopefully in a few months they'll be back to the sort of levels we're used to.