Best of 3 500 GB Hard drives?
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There's several hard drives available for $55-56 on newegg and I was just wondering what would be the best one? Click here for the full list and sort by price.
3 stand out to me.
WD Caviar green
WD Caviar Blue
Seagate Barracuda
So there's a WD Green which has 32mb, But its considered WD's low end power saving harddrives.
The blue which is considered the middle class of harddrives, but oddly it only had 16mb cache,where the green has 32mb.
Then there's the Seagate barracuda also 16mb.
I know cache doesn't mean much, but I found it interesting that the Green version has more cache then the supposely better blue edition.
has anyone seen any benchmarks?
3 stand out to me.
WD Caviar green
WD Caviar Blue
Seagate Barracuda
So there's a WD Green which has 32mb, But its considered WD's low end power saving harddrives.
The blue which is considered the middle class of harddrives, but oddly it only had 16mb cache,where the green has 32mb.
Then there's the Seagate barracuda also 16mb.
I know cache doesn't mean much, but I found it interesting that the Green version has more cache then the supposely better blue edition.
has anyone seen any benchmarks?
More about : 500 hard drives
Unfortunately not sold on newwegg, I bought 2 of these for that price:
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB (HD502HJ)
As for benchmarks, try Passmark:
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB (HD502HJ)
As for benchmarks, try Passmark:
Haven't had problems with my 2 500GB Seagate 7200.12's for months.
Though the WD Black is much more balanced and better drive than the 7200.12 or Blue.
The WD Green's are much better for storage or 24/7 torrent boxes, where loading performance is not much of a concern.
* Maybe get whichever is cheaper?
Though the WD Black is much more balanced and better drive than the 7200.12 or Blue.
The WD Green's are much better for storage or 24/7 torrent boxes, where loading performance is not much of a concern.
* Maybe get whichever is cheaper?
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