Fastest write speeds of 7200RPM drives

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Shaun311

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I am about to install 2 more Velociraptor 600GB drives in my computer because the two I have now are getting full (300GB left). I've been searching for benchmarks and everything for a good 2TB drive to back up my Steam games onto. Not too crazy about the read speeds, but I would like the drive to write pretty fast. I have an external eSATA dock built into my computer case, so I will be keeping the backup drive in a static bag put away until I need it, and just slap it in, let it do its thing and be put right away. I just want to know what you guys thought on this and could suggest me a good 2TB drive for this. I have 2-3TB Red drives for my XBMC computer, and I LOVE those things, so that could be an option, but I don't NEED a green drive for this purpose or anything. Just something that may be faster than the Reds, even though they really did impress me a lot! I should add that I probably am being way too picky about a few MB/s, but I do know that my Red drives were hitting in the 150 read and write, but if someone could point out that the Barracuda XT can hit maybe 160 or something. That's pretty much what I am looking for. THE fastest Writing speed for a 7200 drive. Trying to also stay within the $90 to $120 range.
 
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Yea I like the RED drives a lot too and honestly that might be your best bet besides going to a WD Black. the XT's do about 150 as well. This will also depend on your SATA speed and if you have SATA II or SATA III. I have two Samsung Spinpoints (Acutal Samsungs not that Seagate wanna be samsung crap) In a Raid 0 on a Dell SAS 5 Raid Controller and i get like 260 on that sucker in raid 0. I'd say go that route but you only need one drive. 130-150 is about the range you will see on these newer drives but that also depends on your SATA controller and where its being copied from. Like I only get 260 on benchmarks or if i'm coping data from an SSD which even then doesn't get that close (more like 210) but i copy from hard drive to hard drive...
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Yea I like the RED drives a lot too and honestly that might be your best bet besides going to a WD Black. the XT's do about 150 as well. This will also depend on your SATA speed and if you have SATA II or SATA III. I have two Samsung Spinpoints (Acutal Samsungs not that Seagate wanna be samsung crap) In a Raid 0 on a Dell SAS 5 Raid Controller and i get like 260 on that sucker in raid 0. I'd say go that route but you only need one drive. 130-150 is about the range you will see on these newer drives but that also depends on your SATA controller and where its being copied from. Like I only get 260 on benchmarks or if i'm coping data from an SSD which even then doesn't get that close (more like 210) but i copy from hard drive to hard drive a lot and i only get like 50-60 or so.
 
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Yeah, I like the Reds so I might stick with them. Even if I get a couple more MB/s on the XTs I still like the 3 year warranty over the 1 year.
 
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