Win7 Drive Died, need a good Single Platter replacement

[Atnevon]

Hey Everyone,

I had my main hard drive go bad, so Now I'm looking to replace it.

I'm running on my old XP drive for now, so at least I have a crutch to wobble on until the new drive to replace the Win7 x64 one.

I looked around and found these 2 drives, and wonder if anyone has experience with them, or can recommend any more:

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395


I can't afford a raptor or SSD just yet, so this is really the best for my budget. If anyone has experience with any of these please let me know.

-At

 

[fullinfusion]

whats the most you wanna fork out?

 

[xrealm20]

the F3 will be faster than the seagate, but personally I'd jump for a WD Caviar Black -- like this one

WD Caviar Black 640GB w/ 64m cache

 

[fullinfusion]

the F3 will be faster than the seagate, but personally I'd jump for a WD Caviar Black -- like this one

WD Caviar Black 640GB w/ 64m cache

thats the one im running and love it... that be a great choice.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

I also think the WD black is the way to go..I have 2 500 Blacks as a single drive they get 100mb/s average and in Raid I'm getting 180mb/s average

 

[ebolamonkey3]

I vote for the Samsung Spinpoint F3. It's very fast and pretty quiet also, and if you get in on a deal they're only $70 to $80 shipped.

Oh yea, 2 of these in raid 0 avg. 220mb/sec read/write I think. That's like a SSD w/ 2tb of storage.

 

[francis511]

Spinpoint`s rly fast