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
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