Does single platter drive use much less power and generate much less heat? Which is more important to the performance, cache or single platter? Thanks. Only the ST3500418AS is single platter, designated by the bold number. That means ST31000528AS is two platter....

it in a few years its just a quick switch to a new processor. I would swap the hard drive for the seagate 12 500GB drive, its a single platter drive so it will be quiet, fast, and power efficient. if you care about a low power pc, stick to a integrated graphics...

for the correction. You learn something new everyday... :) And also to spark your bubble, the Seagate 7200.12 500gb is a single platter, making it faster than the black wd's as shown in benchmarks. The 7200.12 drives don't impress me. They certainly don't...

Read it again and either the WD Black 640gb or 1tb models would be faster than those 500gb ones. Also the new Samsung Spinpoint F3 500gb drives have a single platter and are even faster. If you are going to spend that much I would get a Velociraptor or even...

know what the fastest or few of the fastest low capacity 7200rpm hard drives are? With low capacity i mean anything under 500gb. I tought higher density drives are faster, so single platters should be fastest, true or false? Thanks alot:) Correct me...

Technology] Black Windows 7 64bit. Many thanks for your help. The Corsair HX850 will handle 3 5850s, you dont need that large of a PSU. For the 500GB Hard drives get single platter drives like the samsung F3 or Seagate 7200.12. What about...

that you'll do a lot less seeking to access 500GB of data on the larger drive. WD 500G single platter have poor access time than dual platters .. WD5000AAKS-00M9A0 single platter : 15.2 ms...

Dual-Channel Kit Additional Memory - Patriot Memory Extreme Performance Viper PC2-6400 Low Latency - 4.0GB Dual-Channel Kit Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB SATA II 16MB Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive - Single Platter...

possible platters for a given capacity. A 1 platter 500GB drive will beat a 2 platter 500GB drive any day (ignoring other factors), but even the 2 platter 500GB will beat a single platter 100GB drive due to the larger capacity per platter. Higher spin speed...

Kit Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB SATA II 16MB Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive - Single Platter Optical Drive - Samsung SH-222A (Black) 22x IDE DVD±Writer *FREE Verbatim DVD+R 3-Pack* - OEM Video Card - Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1.0GB...