Need a fast HDD

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Bman123

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Looking to get a new HDD. I dont need alot of storage 320gb would be more then enough, someone local said to get a samsung spinpoint f4, then I heard the F3 was faster, then I heard the WD black is good.

RIg in sig is what the HDD is going in. Pent D 3ghz cpu, 2gb ram, win vista about to be linux. I plan on buying a HDD tomorrow so the help would be much appreciated
 
Why do you need it to be fast? if its going in an old Pent D system for Linux .. media server of some kind?
 
Because I want a new hard drive that is good, which is better F3, F4 or WD Black
 
The 320GB F4 is a little faster than the other two in STR. Although if you short stroke the other 2 you may get better performance because of better access times. However with that said the F4 is much cheaper so for an old system this would be fine. The slowness of the P4D may make it so you can not even tell the difference in speed.
 
I would think that getting a WD Caviar Black 640GB and then short stroking it to 320GB(or whatever you think is necessary) would work out well. My old Black 640GB was extremely fast when set at 300GB and they are cheap now.
 
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