SSD + what mechanical drive

[toxic]

After reading a lot of 'what SSD' posts here...im about to order a 128Gb Crucial M4 (first SSD ) and with it a normal drive. whats the best cheapish mechanical drive going..looking for something at least 1Tb in size, good speed and can be SATA 3. Will be used for mostly my non playing too much games etc.

cheers

was thinking this....

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-366-WD&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1665

 

[Surveyor]

You should be looking at the Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM.

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

SATA 3 makes no difference for a mechanical HDD.

SATA 2 works up to around 280MB/s and with a HDD you'd be lucky to get half that speed.

Putting a SATA 3 interface on a HDD doesn't make any difference.

 

[toxic]

You should be looking at the Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM.

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

SATA 3 makes no difference for a mechanical HDD.

SATA 2 works up to around 280MB/s and with a HDD you'd be lucky to get half that speed.

Putting a SATA 3 interface on a HDD doesn't make any difference.

OK..Ive got one of these SS F3 1Tb drives as my main drive already. Im puting this in another system...so guess I might be just as well buying another then!

HDD's obviously haven't change in the last year or so then.