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No, the only time a larger hard drive would be faster if all other factors are the same, is if the smaller hard drive is running low on disk space, and doesn't have enough free space for a large enough page file or enough free space to move files around.
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A larger drive is faster assuming the additional size isn't from adding more platters. Read/write to the same spot on a small disk is slower because of the density difference. Depending on how much density difference there is the actual performance difference might or might not be noticable.
Also, drives dont arbitrarily move files around to make space for a new file. If there's not a large open space they just stick parts where ever they find free space. That's why fragmentation occurs.
That said, that samsung might still be faster than a larger maxtor (I didn't really look at the drives before). You'd have to check benchmarks to know for sure.