Best Performace 7200 SATA Drive

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Best Performace 7200 SATA Drive

Post by MrNIGHTLIFE » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:15 am

Hey Guys,

Which SATA 7200 rpm drive has the best performance? I'm not worried about noise. I really don't want to go the Raptor route. I will be using two drives to do a raid 0.

Thanks.
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Re: Best Performace 7200 SATA Drive

Post by lenny » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:29 am

MrNIGHTLIFE wrote:Which SATA 7200 rpm drive has the best performance? I'm not worried about noise. I really don't want to go the Raptor route. I will be using two drives to do a raid 0.
I wish I have a night life, but I digress. Welcome to SPCR forums!

This is probably not the place to ask this question :-)

If you check Tom's hardware, and if you trust them, the Hitachi 7K250 /HDS7225xx series has the best performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/200 ... index.html

You may also want to check out http://www.storagereview.com, which incidentally also agrees with Tom's Hardware's assessment.
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Post by bigred » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:39 am

Yeah lenny is right. They have the top performance, and they are pretty quiet as well.
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Post by MrNIGHTLIFE » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:42 am

I love going out. Thats my hobby ;) Those HDs ar eonly 2mb cache. is that a problem comapred to the 8mb drives?
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Post by MrNIGHTLIFE » Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:32 pm

Thx for the help. I'm going with the 13G0252, which is 80gb, and 8mb cache.
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Post by lenny » Wed Nov 19, 2003 2:07 pm

MrNIGHTLIFE wrote:Those HDs are only 2mb cache. is that a problem comapred to the 8mb drives?
Which one? The 7K250 (same one you decided on) are availble with 8MB cache. The ones reviewed in Tom's Hardware all have 8MB cache.
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Post by ez2remember » Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:09 pm

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=8424 Confrimed here too that the new Hitachi's 7K250 are v. fast.

The added bonus it's not noisy according to the HD roundup. (quiet drives in there too)
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