Seagate 160G vs Maxtor 300G?

[Impact9]

I've considering buying these:

2 each Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model 6B300S0
Specifications:
Capacity: 300GB
Average Seek Time: 9.3 ms
Buffer: 16MB
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface: Serial ATA 150
Features: SATA II, -NCQ [Native Command Queuing]

or

4 each Seagate 160GB Barracuda 7200.7 7200RPM SATA II with NCQ Hard Drive, Model ST3160827AS
Specifications:
Capacity: 160GB
Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
Buffer: 8MB
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface: Serial SATA 150
Features: Up to 20 percent performance improvement over previous SATA, 100 percent software compatible with existing PCs

I'm wondering about real world performance. The maxtor has a larger buffer but slower seek times. How do these newier NCQ drive stack up and perfom? Which would be better on a gaming system?

 

[the who]

The Maxtors will probobly be a little faster due to their high data density and 16mb cache but the Seagates are solid drives with 5yr warranties while the Maxtors have 3yr warranties.

 

[Impact9]

Wonder how quite the maxtors are. I have a few seagates and a couple older maxtors. The seagates are really nice quite compared to my 60g maxtors.