Samsung or Seagate?

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Hi

I'm looking to buy a new hard drive, updating from a 3 year old hitachi deskstar thats making funny noises thats ide with an 8mb cache. Looking at going Sata so i can have both my dvd drives working again (damn Ds3 having one ide socket).

Looking at getting either the seagate 7200.11 500gb with 32mb cache or the samsung spinpoint T 500gb with 16mb cache.

Obviously they're going to be slightly better than mine, but which is the one i should go for? I "may" pick one up at a later date so i can raid 0 them.

Also is it a case of just attach the cables and turn the pc on or will i need to set anything up first before installing windows?

cheers
 
for my money its Seagate. good speeds, excellent service, and as reliable as sunshine. :)

p.s. would you be willing to help me out with a few bench marks ? i am currently on an opty 170 @ 2.9Ghz water cooled with an X1900XT and 2 gig of DDR PC2100 and ive been looking for someone with an Intel E2180 and X1900XT + 2 gig of DDR2 as ive worked out i can sell my board, cpu and ram and buy your board, cpu and ram for no more than £50 extra once ive sold my parts but i want to find out if the perfomance is worth it, I also plan on trying to take it to 4Ghz if i get it.
 
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Seagate first, samsung second. Seagates 5year warranty always swings it for me :)

Out of interest, what noises is that hitachi making? I have a couple 160gb ide's here and one of them makes this loud click noise and has done since new.
 
i would also recomend samsungs, and ive used all but hitachi in my times. from quantum thru fujitsu WD maxtor seagate and now samsung.
the quantums, maxtors and samsungs have been my favourites.

the extra 16mb cache might make a bit of difference however, perhaps worth checking for a comparison between them?
 
A shame to compare those drives really as the Seagate if the new gen one and that Samsung is the old. That said, the spinpoints are v. quiet if that's your thing. If you can stretch to it the new Samsung F1 drives are supposed to be considerably better than the seagates. Not sure if the 750Gb is a propper 333Gb platter drive though?
 
I'd say Samsung as I lost all my data to a dead Segate last year, you know what it's like you keep telling yourself I must back everything up and then never get around to doing it :(
 
Amonlym said:
i would also recomend samsungs, and ive used all but hitachi in my times. from quantum thru fujitsu WD maxtor seagate and now samsung.
the quantums, maxtors and samsungs have been my favourites.

the extra 16mb cache might make a bit of difference however, perhaps worth checking for a comparison between them?
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maxtors ?? :eek: youd be safer keeping your data on toilet paper.
 
A lot of our work machines use Seagate drives and generally speaking they have proven to be reliable.
We've had some really noisy ones and of course the odd failure, but generally OK.
From a personal choice however I will always pick Western Digital where possible.
My home PC and the wifes both have WD drives in - even my external portable drives are WD.
If I'm ever building PC's for work rather than buying in ready-built I always go for WD.
They are fast, excellent performance, extremely quiet and very, very reliable - what more could you ask from a HD?
 
I just changed my 500gb samsung for those new segate 7200.10

I was intending to raid them until I made a school boy error and found out I don't have raid on my new asus board :mad:

anyway the new drives are noticeablely quicker :eek: and also much cooler and quieter. I transfered 100gb between drives and the samsung was hot to the touch, the segates were barely warm.
 
I've got a Seagate 7200.11 500Gb, it's much faster than my older drives, saw a very noticeable difference in Windows and game load times. I also can't hear it over my case and the older, noisier HDDs and the fact they come with 5 year warranty was the final plus.
 
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