Who's got the fastest?

[buzznut]

I am not able to afford an SSD at this time, which makes me very sad.. but it looks like we should wait til the new Intel's come out anyway.

I was wondering if the WD 1Tb black is still considered the fastest (non-raptor), or is it the Barracuda 7200.12? I looked at the charts, but I am mostly interested in real world performance. Mostly games and app loading, but I do a little of everything on my pc, homework, surfing, pictures, etc

 

[r_manic]

What you should also look at is reliability. I think, in both regards, the black delivers.

 

[buzznut]

Yeah, that's a great point. I will be storing a lot of stuff on this thing and I understand in addition to the extra cache they have an extra spindle motor or whatnot and a 5 year warranty.

Has Seagate cleared up the problems they were having? Maybe the 7200.11 series?
I have a 320 Gb 7200.10 barracuda that I am extremely underwhelmed with. By far the slowest part of my system. I almost think my WD 500Gb green drive would be better!

 

[neon neophyte]

10 series is slow. 11 series is fast. i have both.

my spinpoint has better throughput than my black. my black has better IOps. black has a 5 year warrenty. i suggest the blacks as well.