Which drive is best for W7 Pro installation

trinaz · 12 Mar 2010

Have the following drives available for my desktop W7 Pro installation. Which would be the better of the two for performance...if it matters ?

Seagate Barracuda 640GB 7200.11 Drive , or
MaXLine Pro (Seagate) 500GB 7H500F0

The only real difference other than capacity I can see is the Barracuda has a 32mg buffer while the MaxLine has 16mg buffer.

Would this difference alone make the Barracuda the better choice and/or have a noticeable performance improvement in W7 ?

Thanks

pebbly · 12 Mar 2010

i would go with the maxline the seagate version 7200 i think has an high failure rate someone will correct me if im wrong

trinaz · 12 Mar 2010

pebbly said:

i would go with the maxline the seagate version 7200 i think has an high failure rate someone will correct me if im wrong

Opps...should have mentioned this is a "factory refurbished" with the firmware update applied ?

pebbly · 12 Mar 2010

trinaz said:

pebbly said:

i would go with the maxline the seagate version 7200 i think has an high failure rate someone will correct me if im wrong

Opps...should have mentioned this is a "factory refurbished" with the firmware update applied ?

ok sorry about that, then definately go with the 7200, faster data transfer

Jonathan_King · 12 Mar 2010

Both drives are 7200 RPM, so it shouldn't really matter.

I'd go with the 32 MB cache one for the OS drive. Hopefully that will speed things up for you slightly.

Other than that, I'd say take your pick.

pebbly · 12 Mar 2010

thank for the added input JK