- May 21, 2008
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I'm having trouble deciding which one I should get. I'm getting mixed benchmarks, for example:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hard-disks/average-read-transfer-performance,658.html
says that the barracuda crushes the WD (79.8 to 50.5)
whereas http://www.custompc.co.uk/labs/180129/western-digital-caviar-se16-250gb.html
actually says that the WD is faster than the barracuda both in read/write speed and in real-life performance (they used loading a level in Crysis)
Can someone explain this? Or am i missing some important detail in these benches?
Also, I've been reading a lot of the reviews on newegg, and a lot of them said that the seagate drives were DOA or that it failed on them within 1 hour of use. So... which one should I pick?
Thanks a lot.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hard-disks/average-read-transfer-performance,658.html
says that the barracuda crushes the WD (79.8 to 50.5)
whereas http://www.custompc.co.uk/labs/180129/western-digital-caviar-se16-250gb.html
actually says that the WD is faster than the barracuda both in read/write speed and in real-life performance (they used loading a level in Crysis)
Can someone explain this? Or am i missing some important detail in these benches?
Also, I've been reading a lot of the reviews on newegg, and a lot of them said that the seagate drives were DOA or that it failed on them within 1 hour of use. So... which one should I pick?
Thanks a lot.
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