Seagate 500GB vs WD 500GB

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yoongkc

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Hey guys,

Hope to check some facts offered by the suppliers.

-Seagate 500GB @ 7200rpm with 32MB cache

-WD 500GB @ 7200rpm with 16MB cache

Which of it should offer a better reliability and performance? I heard that WD hard disks are more power efficient and quieter, but given a lower cache memory, will the performance be affected significantly?

Another question is that I heard hard disk don't actually used up till 32MB cache, so Seagate offers at such a high memory cache is actually pretty useless?


All of these are heard and seen from here and there, so not sure which is true or false. Please comment. Thanks!
 
The 32MB of cache probably wont make much difference. Do you have links to the specific drives? The seagate drive is probably a 7200.11 but I don't know what WD model you are looking at.
 
Western Digital offers 2 types of 500GB hard disk with 16MB cache memory.

-WD Caviar SE16
-WD Caviar GP (Green Power)

Any thoughts or comments on these 2 hard disk?

I heard the GP version is really a power saver and it can last longer, but it may have slow performance due to its power saving capability. Is that true?
 
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