Best HDD for £50-80

[Marcvs]

What are the best drives these days in the £50-80 bracket, i already have a raptor and so speed is not a huge concern, mainly which are best speed/reliability tradeoff at the price at the moment, should i try and wait for the 1TB samsung f1 and stretch my cash to that or should i go for something different?

Thanks Guys

MT

[TAKTAK]

if it were my money i'd plump for one of the WD AAKs

[hermeticist]

I think this is arguably the fastest and probably best in the price range (I believe it uses the new 320gb platters - similar to samsung F1 [1TB - not the 250gb platters of the 750GB models]):

Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD6400AAKS)

Caveat: Some people have had problems with this supplier, the drive is currently fairly difficult to find.

[h0mes]

id go for the samsung 750gb f1 spinpoint a great drive

[teodor_ch]

i always buy WD hard disks.
Any of the AAKS models should be fine

look for the 500 -700gb models as they have better ration Gb/££

[moogle]

f1 all the way. although some people have bad experience with samsung drives i've yet to have one

[this_is_gav]

id go for the samsung 750gb f1 spinpoint a great drive

As hermeticist, the 750GB model is rather less great than the 1TB one.

I'd go for 640GB WD AAKS too, just through prior experience.

[s_kinton]

I got the 750Gb Samsung F1 last week and can't fault it!

[h0mes]

I think this is arguably the fastest and probably best in the price range [1TB - not the 250gb platters of the 750GB models])

the spinpoint f1 is 320gb platters

[hermeticist]

Not the 750GB F1 - at least not to my knowledge (3 x 250GB).