Any ideas on which hard drive to buy?

Question

I've decided to upgrade my computers hard-drive and was looking for a pair of cheap - small - hard drives that I can set up in a RAID 0 for a cheap boost of speed. I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions - size isn't really an issue and wouldn't like to go over £60 for the both. Thanks

Answer 1

seagate is good and samsung is better

Answer 2

never had a problem with seagate or westerndigital

Answer 3

seagate is the best...

go for it

Answer 4

If possible, I'd like to talk you out of going RAID 0. If you are not spending that much money, why not just get a decent single drive instead of two cheap drives. Think about it, if you put your operating system on two striped drives, if one drive fails, you're done for. If you are using it as a fast access data drive, all of your data is gone. Is it really worth the risk? If you are only spending that much money on HDDs, I doubt you are building a high end rig. In that case, your bottleneck will certainly not be your hard drive. I'd suggest a nice Samsung Spinpoint F1. They are not too expensive, spacious, 7200RPM and a lot faster than most drives on the market. The 750GB and the 1T variant are around the same speed, but the 1T has denser platters compared to most HDD on the market right now. Hitachi used to use 5 platters for their 1T (not sure how it is now). The F1 has 3.

Answer 5

You can get 2 x Western Digital 80Gb HDDs from Overclockers for 27 quid each ( 8Mb cache)

Or for 10 pounds extra, you could get 2 x 250Gb Seagate Barracuda HDDs (16Mb cache) also from overclockers!!  

Hope this helps!!