Which drives?

[[TW]Fox]

Hi guys,

Looking at buying a new HDD and though I'd check that I'm using my HDD's in the most efficient way before deciding which to purchase.

Currently I have..

750Gb WD Black
500Gb WD Black
300Gb Maxtor Maxline III in eSATA external enclosure.

Now the 750 is split into a 60gb Windows partition with 600odd gb for data.
The 500Gb is where all my games and applications are stored.
The 300gb contains my media etc but is full and I intend to retire it.

Current thinking is that I should buy a 1tb drive and simply replace the 300gb drive with it.

However am I missing an opportunity to boost system performance here? Would I be better off with a new drive for my Windows/Data setup and then use this to displace the 750Gb drive for media?

Which drive would you buy in my situation?

Current thinking is to just buy a 1Tb drive and replace the 300gb one with it. Looking at a WD Green but is this the best choice? I notice the green has a whopping 64mb of cache - yet the Black has half this. Why is this?

Potential spanner in works - this 2Tb Seagate LP drive. Whats all that about then? Worth considering?

Thanks!

 

[[TW]Fox]

To be honest I'm after more space. I've filled the media drive (Though I've got bags of space elsewhere but I dont want to use that) and would like to increase the size of the drive used for media.

However this got me thinking that if I can do this whilst increasing performance by buying, say, a new OS drive then why not. Would I notice any performance increase by replacing my WD Black 750 with a Samsung F3?

Or is it really just best to buy a 1tb drive, stick it in the media enclosure and forget about it? If I do this which would you go for - WD or Samsung? Samsung is a fiver cheaper at the moment.

Is RAID worth it for general gaming and suchlike these days? Perhaps I could just get another 500Gb WD AAKS (Just realised my 500 is an AAKS not, I presume, a Black), RAID-0 it with my other one and put the then spare 750 into the media enclosure? What is the risk of a broken stripe set or whatever or is it purely just the risk of a hard drive hardware failiure x 2?