Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA2 32MB 7200RPM

or

Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM?

Must decide within a week. If I had to flip coins and wound up with the WD, would there be a significant difference to the F1?

Neither.
Put your money into A Seagate 7200.11 500GB w/32MB of cashe for $89-119 USD online/Fry's walk-in-sale.
Kicks Raptors butt.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/13440/15
It seems to suck in most of those tests, caviar performing better?

I have always had very good luck with Western Digital drives. Have a couple of internal mail servers that I built for an office in the late 90's with 8-10GB Western Digital Caviar's (that was considered a huge amount of storage at the time), and they are still running after almost 10 years of 12 hour days. No joke.

Seagate had some Q/C issues back in the early to mid 90's, but now they come with a 5 year warranty. Probably can't go wrong either way.

One brand that I would definitely avoid is Maxtor. They seem to die hard deaths not very long after the warranty expires.

i vote 7200.11 wit h32mb cache cause i got one in 500gb form, and it kicks game arse

ill agree with zolddude... mainly because the 500gb drives can be had for SOOO much cheaper than their 750gb counterparts.

"Neither.
Put your money into A Seagate 7200.11 500GB w/32MB of cashe for $89-119 USD online/Fry's walk-in-sale.
Kicks Raptors butt. "

Cant tell from my house!

Ok, so 7200.11 is the way to go? If I were to go WD though, would I be in for a difference? That's what I want to know, if there is any hands-down, discernable difference.. but at the moment I feel like going 500G 7200.11.

If i do not live near frys should i new egg it for the ftw?

Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. 32MB cache and are technically Server Drives according to Seagate. I picked up a 250GB one for myself.

for the for the win? thats over doing it aint it

i've never been indecisive about harddrives before, but this time i'm afraid i'll go insane.. think i've re-ordered fifteen times just today.

Thats what you want....fast program/map loads.
Also the artical said they used a 250GB one (thought the 500GB was the small one) and also said the price was $300+ .....somethings not right with them....a 750GB one was onsale with email code a week ago for $169.
Anyhow the 500GB size is the best price.
Look forward to Easter sales in the comming 3-5 weeks online and off.

I have the 500GB sizes of WD/Maxtor/Seagate and Seagate is the pick.

@soldier37...
Nice rig.
The ones I have built in the past 3-4 weeks have $111 (from Fry's after returning the combo MB) 6000+ and 8800GTS 512 (G92) @ $258.

No more Raid-0 for this old guy!

http://www23.tomshardware.com/stor [...] 6&chart=32

Matters how much you use the hardrive. raided raptors would be for extreme harddrive usage. I went for the Western Digital Quiet and low temp 7200k harddrives (toms' recommended at one point).