hard drive recommendation

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I'm building a new system and need some advice on the hard drive decision.

Planning on a WD black 640gb, wanting to know about experiences with them.

Also may pick up a Seagate hard drive 500gb on the cheap...I've heard that Seagate is crap though. What's the word on that?
 
the WD black 640 is as fast as the old 150GB raptors.. they are really good hard drives for using as a boot drive or gaming drive..

you are better off buying a cheap 1TB drive.. the difference in price between the 500gigs and 1TB is almost nil if you compare the price per gig..

as for seagates.. it really depends on what drives you buy.. theres still a lot of crappy models floating around out there but they have fixed most of them by now.. they just have absolutely horrid quality control in china..
 
I have a few WD Black Caviar HDDs (1TB). My oldest is at 8 months right now with no problems. Western Digital's Caviar Black line is great.
 
WD blacks and samsung's F1 are one of the top performing drives. if you want even more performance out of them, get them in 1tb size and short stroke them down to only the size you need.
 
If you can find the WD6400AAKS Caviar Blue for significantly less, you'll get near the same performance as the Black 640GB. Otherwise, if the price difference is negligible, definitely go with the Caviar Black.
 
thanks for all the input. it's looking like I'm going to be scooping up either a 640gb WD black, or a 750gb samsung f1. Really it comes down to whichever ends up being more inexpensive, unless anyone advises me otherwise. I'm looking at a samsung f1 on the cheap now though.
 
I have two of the 750GB Samsungs, over one year of service from each, they work great.
 
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