I don't understand a thing about HDD... help please?

**Cromewell** · 04-28-2008, 02:02 PM

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Yeah, I just did a search on HDD and I found one, but I'm not so sure about it... Here are two I'm interested in

One is the Seagate Barracuda. Capacity=1TB, RPM=7200, Cache=32MB, Average Latency= 4.15ms

And the Samsung Spinpoint. Capacity= 750GB, RPM=7200, Cache-32MB, Average Seek time= 8.9ms, Average Latency= 4.17ms

Either one of those should work well. You don't need 32MB of cache, 16 is plenty. I think both my drives still have 8MB and I'm in no rush to get new ones. You may not be storing a whole lot of files, but sooner or later you'll be storing a few big files, games data files are getting pretty big

Trio · 04-29-2008, 02:48 AM

Ok. Thanks for the help Cromwell.

The only thing I don't like about the Seagate Barracuda is there are negative reviews saying it makes a clicking noise while running, than it breaks down. Should I probably go with another one? Also, its only $150 I think, so maybe its cheap for that reason?

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Trio Bronze Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 59	Ok. Thanks for the help Cromwell. The only thing I don't like about the Seagate Barracuda is there are negative reviews saying it makes a clicking noise while running, than it breaks down. Should I probably go with another one? Also, its only $150 I think, so maybe its cheap for that reason?