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Mick35656   02-03-2012 at 09:29:57 PM

Seagate 250 GB HDD Internal Hard Drive (ST250DM000)

 

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Seagate 250 GB HDD (ST3250318AS)

 

Which one is better in terms of performance?


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slhpss   02-03-2012 at 09:48:31 PM

ST250DM000 = more cache and faster connection, but I doubt you will saturate the sata 6gbps... honestly the performance difference would be almost unnoticeable... but from raw specs this one is better...

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rolli59   02-04-2012 at 03:49:58 PM

Mechanical HDD have a hard time saturating SATA 1.5 GB/s interface let alone the 6GB/s. Answer above is correct on the newer drive being faster but not noticeable only measurable (benchmark) difference.

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