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| Thread ID: 121493 | 2011-10-28 05:21:00 | Comparing Hard Drives | Driftwood (5551) | Press F1 |
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| 1240469 | 2011-10-28 05:21:00 | Comparing Seagate ST3500320AS with ST3500413AS I have looked at the specs for both & see the differences. Not sure how they would compare in use. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1240470 | 2011-10-28 06:11:00 | If you're looking at buying an HDD now isn't really the time to be doing so. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1240471 | 2011-10-28 06:30:00 | Interesting reply. Why would that be? |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1240472 | 2011-10-28 06:33:00 | Interesting reply. Why would that be? pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1240473 | 2011-10-28 07:12:00 | Fair enough, but it dosent answer my original question. Lets put it another way. If I am puting a system together & have a choice of those 2 drives to to install the os on, which would be better for office work & light gaming? |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1240474 | 2011-10-28 07:41:00 | I'm guessing the ST3500413AS is the newer drive. It supports 6gb/s SATA (the other one supports 3) so it should be faster (if your motherboard can handle it). Whereas the other drive (assuming your getting the 500gb version) has double the cache of the ST3500413AS. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1240475 | 2011-10-28 09:12:00 | Yep thats what I came up with. So is faster better than having a larger cache? |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1240476 | 2011-10-29 21:05:00 | Probably, although I think one could argue if the drive can even sustain speeds necessary to warrant the use of a 6Gbps link. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1240477 | 2011-10-30 20:07:00 | Generally, if they're about the same price, get the one with the bigger cache. Now's a great time to buy hard drives - get in before the prices go up :D |
autechre (266) | ||
| 1240478 | 2011-10-30 21:29:00 | get in before the prices go up :D Too late for that... |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
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