HDD OS recommendations

[silk186]

What is the best mechanical drive for OS, I remember before it was the WD 640, is this still the best, or is there a better 320 or 500 drive one the market. it doesn't really need it to be big as it's just an OS drive but the 80 GB SSD are to high in price right now.

 

[legcramp]

The new Samsung F3 series smokes the WD blue/black series in mostly everything but random seek times.

 

[gwarren007]

samsung f3 or seagate 7000.12 500gb's

 

[Redleader]

Western Digital VelociRaptor would be something to look at.

 

[gwarren007]

Western Digital VelociRaptor would be something to look at.

Or a couple small ssd's in raid 0

 

[engiNURD]

A single Intel or Indilinx based SSD would outperform a VRaptor in performance... and cost, but would lose in available space -- but this is an OS drive, so no need for a lot of space.

my VRaptor vs my OCZ Vertex: http://www.alphaq.org/enginurd/hdd/ocz_vertex.html
My two Vertex SSDs in RAID0 simply murder my VRap300

... but yes, if you want a mechanical drive, the drives g listed are the new speed demons of 7200RPM HDDs.

 

[silk186]

the build is already costing more then planned with things costing a bit more in china. So no SSD or Raptor.

That leaves your recommendations for either the Samsung f3 or seagate 7000.12.

for both the 500gb flavor offers the best performance?

online the seagate is showing as avaible but not the samsung. is the F3 much better?

 

[engiNURD]

they're similar, so go with either or.

 

[PC_User]

If you can't get a SSD, then your next best option would be one of those Samsung F3 1TB drives that use the 500GB platters.

 

[silk186]

1TB is a little large for my OS drive. Even 500 is bigger then i need. I will get a 1.5TB drive later for photo and video archival.