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Currently running 2x74GB raptors in raid 0, had them for a few years and its time to move on. Im looking for quieter drives, which isnt hard :p , but also looking for performance.

Trying to decide between:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB

or

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS)

Ive got 2 of the AAKS drives and love them, but their used for storage so I can't judge OS / App performance. Reviews on the 7200.11 are scarce, would the extra cache make any real difference? Also the 7200.11 has a quicker seek, oh decisions! The price difference isn't really an issue and I'm undecided if i'll run 2 drives in raid yet.

Any thoughts?
 
I haven't checked reviews but I'd guess the Seagate will be quicker, there wasn't much between the AAKS drives and the 7200.10s anyway but they might now have the edge. I doubt the cache will make that much of a difference though, the biggest benefit from increased cache comes between 2mb and 8mb, anything above that and you start to hit the law of diminishing returns although it does no harm. :)
 
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 or 7K500 out perform the Raptors in some tests and are certainly faster for desktop/gamming use than the Barracuda or Caviar, if you want the drive for high demand server use then take the Barracuda, but if its game load speeds and general home pc type stuff the 7K1000/500 are certainly better...

Interesting Review Here: http://www.storagereview.com/HDS721010KLA330.sr
 
Awesome game benchmarks from the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 but the noise output measurements from the review kinda puts me off, louder than a raptor

"perhaps slightly louder than the Barracuda's and Raptor's output"

43.5 dB/A idle noise - overall noise envelope is indeed higher than today's average FDB motor-based drive
 
Go for Seagate, they have a 5 year warrenty, which is good. a lot of people perfer them as well
 
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