Which 1TB Sata Drive?

[Bathrone]

Hi friends,

So I've been evaluating which 1TB SATA drive to buy. I had it narrowed down to the Samsung F1 HD103UJ given its apparent performance over the others and less platters but then I found out heaps of people are having problems and needing RMA.

So, is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11? Given more reliability and slightly less performance?

 

[taltamir]

why not the western digital GP?
Saves on electricity and WD has amazing warranty (no proof of purchase, usually 3 or 5 years after manufacturing date).

If you want reliability, RAID1 is the way to go.

 

[sutahz]

As performance seems to be an issue, I'd so go barracuda.
Is this hdd going to be used as the OS drive and/or game drive? Is it for just plain storage?

 

[Sheninat0r]

The WD Caviar GP is an excellent storage drive - it runs very cool and very quietly, but isn't all that fast if you need uber load times and boot times.

The Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ would be the performance king [and it's really quiet too...], but as you said a lot of people are getting ECC errors on them... next up performance-wise would probably be the Barracuda 7200.11, which is loud and vibrates like hell. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have as many problems as the F1.

Hitachi's 7K1000 is still a good choice, even though it's getting old compared to the others - it's about middle-of-the-road performance-wise.