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I know I want a 7200RPM 320G HDD.

I know I want it to be either Western Digital or Seagate. (other brand suggestions welcome)

What I dont know is which one to choose. Not necessarily which brand but which 7200RPM 320G within either brand.

Let me explain myself. When I do a search in Newegg for a 7200RPM 320G HDD I get multiple options from either brand, all within ~$30 from each other. So how do I choose which one to buy other than using the compare tools or reading through the user comments?

All of them are 7200RPM. All of them are 320G. And all or most of them seem to have a 16MB Cache...whatever that means...but some are $10-$30 more...or less depending how you look at it.

I narrow the search down further to only include SATA drives in the results and still I get various results of same speed and capacity HDDs.

Please help!

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Seagate 5 year warranty.
Seagate 7200.11 500GB hard drive 32MB cache, faster than any of the 320GB HD's and not that much more expensive.
Western Digital, Samsung, an Hitachi with 32MB cache also fast, but only a 3 year warranty.
Currently nothing else is worth the money.

Reply to bobbknight

i'd get a seagate 320gb or the 500 gb version:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148288
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148316

personally i would go for the 500gb as it's only 10 dollars more than the 320 version. plus it has twice the cach, 32mb. i've had this drive for 9 months now. and it's very quiet, stays cool and has zero problems.

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godless wrote :

Thank you...this helped...I think I will settle for the 500GB. 180 more gigs for only $10 more is too good to pass up.

Reply to gmatos78

get it from newegg if you can. the price is as good as any other website, plus there is a free 3 day shipping from ups.

Reply to godless

Hi, right now the best bet for a 320gb hdd is the samsung spinpoint F1 320gb or the Western Digital 320gb as they are both using a single platter for the full capacity. This means they are a good bit quicker than older drives and from personal experience with the samsungs are exceedingly quiet and cool running. That said the WD's newest are also reported to be excellent drives - samsungs are my personal favorties and have yet to get a bad drive in about 40 purchases.

Hope that helps.....

Reply to Gelde3001

http://techreport.com/articles.x/13440/6

Tech reports tested the 7200.11 (seagate 500 GB) and the WD5000KS (WD 500 GB) and they both performed pretty much the same, however WD has since released the WD5000AAKS which performs a little better, cooler and quieter than the KS, which made me choose WD vs seagate (sadly this was the only review I could find and can't say 100% sure the results are accurate).

Anyway, my vote goes to the WD5000AAKS.

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Reply to SirCrono

I used Seagate in my current build because I got a good price. So far I've been really happy with them. I'm not sure the differences would even be noticable. They are both solid drives, but the longer warranty might be worth it.

Oh my Seagate gate drives came with Red SATA cables they were boxed though not OEM, so maybe that will help.

Of course on the other hand I've been building my own systems for over 10 years and have always used WD drives and I've never had one fail on me. So........

...glad I could help :pt1cable:

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Reply to 1971Rhino

Here's the seagate 500GB for $85.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Prod [...] t=celebros

WD6400AAKS 640GB (which is faster than the WD 500GB) for just $99

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-di [...] 27115.html

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mihirkula wrote :

Here's the seagate 500GB for $85.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Prod [...] t=celebros

WD6400AAKS 640GB (which is faster than the WD 500GB) for just $99

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-di [...] 27115.html

yeah but there is a shipping charge on the seagate at zipzoomfly of 8 dollars for 5-7 day delivery. at newegg it's included and it's three days.

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