What's the "best" 7,200RPM drive?

I have 2 Seagates 500gb 7200.10 in RAID 1 and 2 Western Digital 500Gb AAK in RAID 1 on a DS3P Intel controller. I find,

The Seagates are much noisier than the WD
The WD's have a slightly faster avg speed in HD Tach, around 68mbs vs 63mbs
The Seagates have a faster burst speed, around 230mbs vs 210.

Having said this, I did have 2 x 320gb Seagate 7200.10 and they were whipser quiet, so I think I'm just unlucky with the 500gb one I got.

Jack
 
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