Seagate IDE 7200.9 & 7200.10 HDD

[imported_Detoyminador]

I'm going to buy a 500Gb Seagate IDE HDD and I have the option of getting a 7200.9 or the 7200.10 which one should I get, is there a big difference? It'll be running it on a older system a Intel P4 2.26Ghz CPU and a ASUS P4B533-v MB.

 

[Zepper]

The 7200.9 series is one of the worst performing of Seagate generations of drives. The current line is the 7200.10. The 7200.10 line has perpendicular recording thus reducing the number of platters per drive. It also is a significantly better performer than the .9 series. Tomshardware.com and perhaps storagereview.com have comparative numbers on them.

.bh.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Zepper
The 7200.9 series is one of the worst performing of Seagate generations of drives. The current line is the 7200.10. The 7200.10 line has perpendicular recording thus reducing the number of platters per drive. It also is a significantly better performer than the .9 series. Tomshardware.com and perhaps storagereview.com have comparative numbers on them.

.bh.

I have read several reports of data corruption on the 7200.10 series of drives that seem to point to the perpendicular recording as the reason for it.

 

[Ruptga]

All I've heard about the .10s is they're very good, fast drives.