whos better? seagate or western digital?

Gadge · 21 Jan 2007 at 13:10

Gonna get an external HD the ones i have seen are same size and price but whos better?

Gadge · 21 Jan 2007 at 13:44

The ones i'm looking at are:
Seagate 320GB USB2.0 7200rpm 8MB Cache External Hard Drive
and
Western Digital 320GB MyBook Essential USB2.0 7200RPM 8MB Cache

as for storage, it will just be media, mainly HD movies that would be streamed thru the pc to the xbox360.

Gadge · 21 Jan 2007 at 15:05

double cache and 80gb more for 12 quid extra. worth it?

Gadge · 21 Jan 2007 at 19:25

mosfet said:
Personally I'd go for the WDG1U4000 MyBook on this week only:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-085-WD

It's currently for only slightly more than both the Seagate and WD 320GB drives and has double the cache of both of them, which may provide a small performance boost.

ordered that one, its 50quid cheaper than anywhere else so seems a good deal.