Which Seagate???

[jyi786]

ST380023AS or ST380013AS?

Need speed, quiet, cool. Which one do I pick? The only difference I see is one of them is a Barracuda V and the other is a 7200.7.

 

[douglas25]

Try one of the new Hitachi sata drives. It has outpaced the Raptor drives in many reviews. Here is a link to the 120GB for $118 from newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-145-047&depa=1

And here is a review...

http://envynews.com/index.php?ID=562&page=9

I have 2 in raid 0 and they are pretty darn fast and quiet enough for me.

 

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Originally posted by douglas25
Try one of the new Hitachi sata drives. It has outpaced the Raptor drives in many reviews. Here is a link to the 120GB for $118 from newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-145-047&depa=1

And here is a review...

http://envynews.com/index.php?ID=562&page=9

I have 2 in raid 0 and they are pretty darn fast and quiet enough for me.

I would never ever buy a Hitachi drive in my life.

If it's a Barracuda, just get it. Their SCSI drives are louder than a flight of bombers during WWII, but their IDE and SATA drives are pretty darn quiet.

 

[tdg]

The Barracuda V will be the quieter of the two, and the 7200.7 will perform just a little better. Since you probably wont be able to tell the performance difference very much in actual usage I'd go with the ST380023AS.