Storage Solutions Help choose 500GB HDD

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Help me choose the right INTERNAL 500gb hdd in terms of speed,noise levels. Will be uisng it for a gaming pc and wud also store loads of movies(LARGE FILES)

WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB OR

SEAGATE 7200.12 500GB 16MB...IS A 32MB AVAILABLE?
REAGRDS.
 
Get the seagate 7200.12 500gb, you wont regret it..
Low temps, fantastic transfer speeds

Warranty of 7200.12 is still dicy, some have gotten 5 years and some 3 years
 
Okay I confirm that seagate has INCREASED my warranty from 3 to 5 years

Go for seagate!!
 
^Get the facts right! Not the 7200.12 series. The Seagate should be considerably faster than the WD 500 AAKS. But if you ask me I'd opt for a WD over the Seagate drives. None of the WD drives have died on me so far. *touchwood*
 
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 16Mb Cache (Latest Revision) ~ 2700
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32Mb Cache (Lots and lots of issues) ~ N/A

Go with the .12, you won't regret! :)
 
go for this

Model ST31000528AS , 1 TB , 32 MB Cache 7200.12 series

Bangalore price 4350 inclusive of tax
 
seagate has got a bad reputation off late. I have come across many threads saying that the seagate drive died on them. and probably they have a good RMA policy, but still if your drive dies, you lose all the data + all the mental agony you will have to go through.

I was serious about buying a seagate 7200.12 drive but after i repeatedly found members posting on forums about their dead drives, i decided to go for WD only.

Even WD is not perfect, but off late the seagate drives have caused lot of problems, which is my point here.

remember, a seagate firmware upgrade had actually bricked the hard drives..
 
You see more seagate drives die because they sell more than wd . All hdd are the same but those with better warranty should be preferred.
 
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