Which HDD is better?

[Space Monkey]

Hi guys,

Can anyone tell me which is the better of these 2 drives?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-336-WD

Or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

I'm looking at getting 2 of them to help with storing and working on HD video editing (I also have a 256gb M4 SSD as my main drive).

Thanks

 

[Philtor]

I would go for the Western Digital Caviar Black personally.

 

[Surveyor]

Performance wise there's nothing really between the F3 and the Caviar Black.

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

The Caviar Black has the longer warranty though.

I believe the new Seagate drives are even better: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM

But they have an even shorter warranty.

Why two 1TB drives when you can buy a 2TB drive for much less cost?

 

[AllBodies]

If you're buying 2 and you're doing HD video editing am I right in assuming you plan to RAID 0 or 1 them?

If so I'd go for the Seagate's, they may have shorter warranty but are considerably cheaper and considerably faster (fastest HDD you can buy at the mo)

Someone in another thread was talking about 2 of those he'd RAID 0'ed and was getting ~347 MB/s read/write

 

[Space Monkey]

........Why two 1TB drives when you can buy a 2TB drive for much less cost?

Thanks for the info and link, I'll digest it later.

I did think about the 2TB drives but I like having multiple drives for backup etc and if I'm moving files between partitions then it's quicker between 2 drives.

If you're buying 2 and you're doing HD video editing am I right in assuming you plan to RAID 0 or 1 them?

If so I'd go for the Seagate's, they may have shorter warranty but are considerably cheaper and considerably faster (fastest HDD you can buy at the mo)

Someone in another thread was talking about 2 of those he'd RAID 0'ed and was getting ~347 MB/s read/write

I won't be raiding them unless I get some more later on due to the reasons above, but thanks for the info on the Seagate

Strange they are only 2 years warranty now, they can't be too confident on their build quality (we now pay more and get less warranty!)

 

[lucas4]

I'd go for the F3 due to it being over £20 cheaper. The speed difference between the 2 is probably going to be negligible in real-world usage scenarios.