Harddrive Headache

[M0rga]

I'm building a system but i am not quite sure on which harddrive to pick. I will be running two in raid 0 for a mid Core2 system.

HDD1: Western Digital Caviar [WD1600YS] 160GB 16MB Cache
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...47240000,4294960493,361720000,11&v=2#infoarea

HDD2: Hitachi Deskstar [T7K200] 200GB 8MB Cache
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...47240000,4294960493,361720000,11&v=2#infoarea

HDD3: Maxtor DiamondMax [21] 250GB 8MB Cache
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...47240000,4294960493,361720000,11&v=2#infoarea

HDD4: Seagate Barracuda [7200.10] 250GB 8MB Cache
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...47240000,4294960493,361720000,11&v=2#infoarea

Does the buffer size really make that much of a difference? I'm not too fussed about storage capabilty, i just want a HDD that will last a long time, running fast and smoothly.

Thanks

 

[King X13]

i like your first one you have listed i have 2 of those in raid 0 but the 250gb version and i love em.

cache your not going to notice really with your naked eye. but it does help with access times and read and writes if you do them alot.

 

[Inaris]

From my experience, I would go with Seagate. This is based soaly on my experience with other vendors. Not only are they the most stable drive I have ever had, but they offer a 5 year warranty...

 

[veg1992]

u should raid 0 those and backup backup backup a lot!

 

[M733mhz]

WD or seagate, I haven't heard much about Hitachi and almost everything I've heard about Maxtor has been bad news.

 

[M0rga]

Thanks for the response guys. I found this one as well : http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=44FN&v=2#infoarea
I thinking that it is probaly pointless to save a few pounds by getting 100 gb less space do you agree?

 

[jonny_uk]

Id go with the Seagate Barracuda aswell, ive got the 300GB version and its really quiet, had it for about a year now and nothing wrong with it.