I'm between these two drives, the SAMSUNG HD401LJ 400GB SATA2 and the SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.10 ST3400620AS 400GB 16MB SATA2 NCQ. I can get them for about the same price so this isn't a factor in deciding.
Which of these two drives is faster and which one is more quiet.
Anyone actually used them as I don't care about synthetic benchmarks as much as real life usage.
The Seagate comes with 5 years warranty instead of the samsung's 3 year, which by itself tells something about it's reliability. But I would rather not have any disks fail me regardless of their warranty.
What size platters are they using ?
And finally is the seagate one of the perpendicular recording drives ?
Which of these two drives is faster and which one is more quiet.
Anyone actually used them as I don't care about synthetic benchmarks as much as real life usage.
The Seagate comes with 5 years warranty instead of the samsung's 3 year, which by itself tells something about it's reliability. But I would rather not have any disks fail me regardless of their warranty.
What size platters are they using ?
And finally is the seagate one of the perpendicular recording drives ?