Need new harddrive

[dragoon48]

well my old harddrve it shot and im looking for a new one i wnted t khow your opinion as to whitch dirve should get?

my first option is the most expeinsive 2 500gb wd black harddrives in raid 0 for 140$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136320

my seacond option is 2 500gb samsung spinpoint f1 harddrives in raid 0 for 120$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152098

my third option is a 1tb wd black hard drive for 100$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

my final option would be 2 750gb samaung spinpoint f1s in raid 0 for 140$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152100

 

[Raidur]

Option 1. (opinion)

 

[aevm]

I'm voting for option 3.

I don't like RAID 0 because it increases the risk to your data.

 

[dragoon48]

yes but i don't care about data security as if i care about it its backed up.

 

[megamanx00]

I like the third option. It's not a bad price and you can add other 1tb blacks latter on for RAID. If you want to spend a little more now just for the speed and don't care about the reliability then go with the first option.

 

[aevm]

yes but i don't care about data security as if i care about it its backed up.

OK, then option 1, with frequent backups. But get WD 640 GB Caviar Black disks (WD6401AALS) instead of WD5001AALS disks. They cost less per GB and they have an average read rate of 98 MB/s (vs 75 MB/s for the WD5001AALS).

 

[dragoon48]

i would be the extra 20$ would push me out of my budget.