Samsung HDD. My findings :-)
Lo dudes.
Well...after the uber positive praise of Samsungm, I tried one :)
A 320gig SATA drive. It's ideally suited to the taks I purcahsed it for, as it's a DATA drive for camcorder films, photo's and downloaded files etc.
Why do I say Ideally Suited?
A: Because you goiod people voted it least likely to die on it's owner
&
B: It's slow.
How slow can a HDD get? I mean....bloody hell.
I have the following, all of which I've installed XP onto, fresh.
Samsung 320gig 7200
Seagate Barracuda 80gig 7200.9
Raptor 74gig (yup...it's clear thats gonna be fastest)
BUT I did expect with the density of the 320gig drive, I'd get a faster machine that the venerable Seagates. Nope
Synthetic benchies (HD Tacho) and XP boot times, and Game loadintg times (IL-2 and Lineage 2...both big games)
minimum 10% slower than the Barracuda
minimum 30% slower than the Raptor.
Shocked? I am.
Thoughts ?
