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Old 07-05-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default Samsung Spinpoint F1 vs Caviar Black
Decisions....Decisions.....

Can someone help me pick out a hard drive?

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?s...D&promoid=1078

or

http://www.anitec.ca/product/11942/s...22_hard_drive/

I have read reveiws on both hard drives and I honestly don't know which one to pick.





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The Caviar series is pretty damn good. The Caviar Black 1TB has 1,249 reviews on Newegg right now, and averages a 5 egg rating. The Caviar 640GB is the same way.

The Spinpoint 1TB has 681 ratings and a 4 egg average.

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owning both, you can't go wrong w/ either...w/out any hdd benchmarks and through every day use, I can honestly tell you that...I have no idea which one is faster, but they are both quiet and reliable (not that I can hear them anyway =P)

I have 3 spinpoints and 2 blacks
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Tom's charts appear to say the spinpoint has greater read/write speeds.... however I heard WD has a longer warrenty.




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Yeah, I've never had a HDD fail on me so...

My modded Xbox is running a Sammy and I've done so much to that damn thing I can't believe it still boots up for me.

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go for the black, i have the 750gb version and have had 0 problems with it in over a year of use. i used it for a boot drive till getting a vraptor recently and loved the speed
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I've had that Samsung for about a year with no problems, It's almost as fast as my Velociraptor.

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I had an F1 failed on me. Replaced with the caviar 1tb and is absolutely flawless to the point I installed it on my server. I bought a 640 version also for another built and just as impressive. Warranty is 5 years.

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go for the black, i have the 750gb version and have had 0 problems with it in over a year of use. i used it for a boot drive till getting a vraptor recently and loved the speed
That's my same exact setup. Works great.

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