Hard Drive for Audio Sample VSTI's

[Mongoo]

I'm looking for a couple of hard drives to store and play Very large VST Instrument Audio Samples. I'll probably pick up two 320gb SATA 3.0gb's drives. The two brands I've been looking at are the Seagate 7200.10 ($104) and Western Digital SE16 ($111). I've read up on similar drives on anandtech but found no direct comparision.

Which would you suggest and why?

Thanks,

Mongoo

 

[Snakexor]

7200.10

 

[bob4432]

get the one with the better warranty because performance will be pretty much = and not noticeable unless you use a benchmark, this pretty much goes to say with current sata, pata, sata 3.0Gbs hdds - all same performance if they are all new gen just with a different connector

 

[Snakexor]

not true, 7200.10 has perpendicular recording. check the benchies of the 750gb on the at main page, it translates to the smaller size drives.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Snakexor
not true, 7200.10 has perpendicular recording. check the benchies of the 750gb on the at main page, it translates to the smaller size drives.

although it appears that the new .10s from seagate are doing well from their perpendicular recording and it appears to be ~8-10MB/s faster in the str, you also need to take into acct density, as a 320 won't have the 188GB platters which will result in a loss.

i will retract my original statement and say to go ahead with the 7200.10 because of this new recording technology and also the fact that seagates have 5yr warranties, but i wouldn't take one of these drives over a different drive just for this reason alone. imo warranty plays a huge role in it i would rather have a slightly slower hdd with a 5yr warranty than a slightly faster one with a 5yr warranty.

also we are talking about 3.5" hdds, not smaller 2.5" hdds