Best 750gb

[kaiweiler]

I'm in the market for a 750gb drive (or thereabouts) to use to store all my media and important data instead of on my Raid-0 array.

I guess I'm looking for a reasonably fast, very quiet large capacity drive.
I found the WD SE16 750AAKS at a very attractive price of $155Cad (not OEM) but looked up some reviews and noticed transfer rates are actually not that great on it, although it does seem to be fairly quiet.
I found the Hitachi 750gb 7K1000 for $13 more which does much better in reviews as far as transfer rates go, it seems to be one of the faster 750gb drives out there. It scored approx 10mb/s faster in sequential transfer rates, and has double the cache of the 750AAKS...
However I am concerned it may be louder than the 750AAKS.

So!
What do you guys recommend for a quiet large capacity drive with good transfer rates?

 

[dgingeri]

With the performance differences being so minimal in the tests I saw, I went with a Seagate for the better warranty. Then mine died after only 8 days.

On the up side, when Seagate sent me a replacement, they sent a 1TB drive instead.

 

[EnderW]

if you're just using it for storage, speed isn't important
what do you need high transfer rates for? are you going to routinely be copying stuff from it to another drive that is fast enough at writing that the read rates of the source drive will be the limiting factor?