What HDD should I get?

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Right now, I am clueless on which HDD I should get. It must be SATA an it must be 3.5"(not velociraptor) What is the best performing 3.5" HDD?
 
I'm in the same boat. Shopping for a 1tb sata 3.5" drive. I was leaning towards a Caviar Black, but I'm looking at Samsung drives also, particualarly the HD103SJ. Anyone have any opinions? It will be my main drive in my system and my cheap P45 board doesn't support raid, so speed and reliablity are my priorities.

Edit: This review is missing a 1tb Caviar Black drive, but the 1tb F3 numbers look good.
 
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The Black is a better drive for an OS and the F3 is better for storage. The benchmarks that I have seen show that the Black works with multitasking and app opening better and the F3 is faster in transfer speeds.
 
I heard that the 640GB black is faster than the 500 and 1TB. Is that true?
 
i know you said "best performing", but what are you doing with this? storage, or OS?

If it's just storage, you can go with a green drive, but if it's OS, I'd stick with a Black drive.
 
What size and price are you looking at?

Some good drives I recommend:
Western Digital 640GB Caviar Black - WD6401AALS
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black - WD1001FALS
Samsung F3 1TB
 
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