Hard drive choice help...

[quadman78]

Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, SATA-300, OEM
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3203230&CatId=2459

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 750GB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 32MB, Serial ATA-300, OEM
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3405853&CatId=2459

Samsung HD753LJ SpinPoint F 750GB Hard Drive - 7200, 32MB, SATA-300
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3529748&CatId=2459

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, Serial ATA-300, OEM
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2203982&CatId=2459

I had the samsung all picked out, and now I'm reading that it has conflicts with NVidea boards. Can anyone verify that? I am using the MSI P7N Diamond board, so any advice as to which hard drive I should use would be great.

While I'm on the subject, I currently have a Maxtor 6y160 HDD in my current machine which I'm thinking of using as a boot drive dual booting both XP and Vista, Will that work?
Thanks.

 

[quadman78]

Nobody?

 

[fantomau]

IMO - Seagate

 

[criccio]

Spinpoint F1, its very fast, and quiet.

 

[thrawn86]

unless speed is an absolute priority I'd go with the seagates (7200.11, not .10) for storage use. The speed difference isn't earth shattering, and a few MB/s is worth an extra 2 years of warranty time to me, especially considering the reliability problems the F1s have been having.

 

[engiNURD]

I agree, Spinpoint F1 or WD 640GB (WD6400AAKS). The F1 series uses 330+GB platters and the 640GB uses 320GB platters -- both VERY fast. Here are some benchmarks on several drives:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1284410