Looking for nice HDD

[nandaman]

Hey guys. Looking to get atleast a 200 or 250 GB HDD. 125 is the limit, though I would really like to keep it around 90 bucks. I do a lot of gaming, would the more expensive drives help that much?

 

[Dangman]

Two good choices:
Maxtor 300GB SATA Hard Drive (Rebadged Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA Hard Drive) - $65
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - $102

Both are pretty fast drives. Not as fast a Raptor drive but still pretty fast. And no, a Raptor would only improve loading times by seconds. Thats it. Doesn't warrant the extra costs.

 

[DrDoU]

newegg has a 320gig seagate for 79.99
maxtor are shitty my .02

 

[nandaman]

What about the 32MB drives? Are they not that much better?

 

[kaiweiler]

Marginally from what I've read.
If you were moving from a 2mb cache you'd notice the difference, but 16mb is apparently adequate.

 

[Dangman]

newegg has a 320gig seagate for 79.99
maxtor are shitty my .02

The Maxtor drive I linked to IS that Seagate 320GB drive. It's just rebadged and comes with a three instead of five year warranty. So it's still a good drive.

 

[tiraides]

[The only drives with 32MB cache that I was able to find were the Seagate Barracuda ES (enterprise server) 250GB HDD ($80) and the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB HDD ($120). But Danny Bui's choices are great for their prices.