Help me select HD

[execut1ve]

Hello all,

I am finishing up a new gaming build and just ran into a problem. The HD I had picked out went out of stock on newegg They restocked it, but they did me the kindness of raising the price at the same time. so I am reconsidering. The build:

EVGA GTX 560Ti (1G) vid card
Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard
Intel i5 Sandy Bridge 2500k processor
8G (4x2G) Crucial DDR3 1600 RAM
Antec 650W psu (considering stepping up to 700 or 800 though)
Antec 1200 Full Tower case
using my current monitor at 1920x1200

the hd I was considering: Western Digital Caviar Black 500Gb 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795

I'm open to suggestions on a good hd for my application. In particular I'm looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148697 by Seagate. I'm also considering getting a small SSD down the road to use for Windows and maybe a game or two, so that will probably influence what hd I need.

Spacewise, I don't need much at all; for reference, I've on a 150G hd since 2007 and it's only recently started to feel a teensy bit small. I was going to get a larger disk and partial stroke it for that little extra bit of juice.

 

[mlg626]

BTW http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148697&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=4176827&SID=5z9ypxkbrpao can only be with a combo.

How much money are you wanted to spend? I have http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145473 and I love it. Fast, 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s. Everything I need. I have also had a lot of WD (some Black) and there also a very good performing HDD. Now with mechanical HDD there mostly the same, small differences.

 

[execut1ve]

I'd love to stay under $100. Good eye on the combo, totally missed that.

2Tb is way way way too much space for me, I'd be wasting my money unless I was planning to partial stroke the crap out of it. See above, I'm currently running fine on 150Gb space

 

[mlg626]

OK sorry, then I say:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145533
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=4176827&SID=zq5o5hqn90xj

 

[mlg626]

Considering the amount of data you need to hold I would go with WD because of the five year warranty. I can not find the warranty on Hitachi. They both are the "performance" model.

 

[execut1ve]

crud they raised the price AGAIN on the WD 500G but I think you're right, just wanted a second opinion

 

[execut1ve]

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