Which Hard Drive?

[Lucio]

Ok, in the long and silly process of finishing off my PC planning whilst killing time before my day in court to recover my money.

The question today is what hard drive? For a while I figured a Samsung Spin point 320GB would be fine but given that I wanted to get some network storage sorted anyway, would I be better served by getting a Raptor for my main hard drive and then just storing all my data, music etc on a network drive?


I don't want to fit more than 1 hard drive to my machine because I'm using a small case and I removed the hard drive cage for better airflow, and planned on fitting the hard drive into something like this

[saltynay]

with mass network storage at above standard g speeds having network storage will hardly have an effect on speed ratio so you can play games straight off and install them onto network storage so you actually only need a tiny 16gb hdd so your best performance would be a flash drive like this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...d=14&subid=910

[prits_88]

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=469115

16mb cache as opposed to 8mb cache...

worth it

[Lucio]

Was gonna get a 16MB cache if I got a 7,200rpm disk.

Mostly it was whether or not I'd be better served with a smaller 10,000rpm disk since many of my files will be stored on a network.


Heck, given my old computer works fine, I might just buy a few cheap hard drives and format it to Linux.

[snedger]

spent ages choosing between Samsung, Hitachi, WD and Seagate - not much to choose between them according to info gleaned from various forums.
Last week went for the 320 Gb Western Digital WD3200AAKS Caviar SE16 in the end and am glad I did.
At windows install it formatted quicker than any HDD I've used before.
Runs really quiet.
Everything is loading noticably quicker.