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Hey everyone, I was wondering if someone could tell me if it'd be a good idea to incorporate a 256gb M4 SSD or a Caviar Black HDD for a gaming machine.
 
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I honestly think that going with a 256gb ssd and a 500gb hdd (WD Black) is your best bet.

In many cases, it doesn't really matter if your games are on your ssd or hdd as there is a negligible difference in performance. I would say that for games like Civ V and Simcity, putting those on your ssd will give you the best increase in load times.
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^ Is that drown the computer parts (ie pitch them in the Ocean), or drown the operator, with a few beers -LOLs

Al little more on the warrantee - BOTH drives SHOULD last past 6+ years, it's more question of which has the greatest likehood of living past 6 years - my current bet is on the F3. Hopefully in 3 years, SSD capacity and PRICE will be at a point that they can replace HDD, at least up to 512 MB. and at some point HDD will be religated to storage/backup status.
 
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WD Blacks are still my choice. It's just a point of personal preference and trust in a company. I haven't had a WD drive fail on me before it's become obsolete to me.

On the other hand, I haven't nor will I buy a Samsung drive because they sold me an LCD TV that cost me $300 to replace the power module 19 days outside the 1-year warranty. This was after they had to come to my house twice during the warranty period to replace the screen one time and the main controller card another. As a result, I tend to no longer trust Samsung products much. It might be to my own disadvantage, but because there are enough companies out there competing with good products, I don't feel I'm missing out whatsoever.

My personal experience with both brands has definitely skewed my opinion in one direction.

I do agree with RetiredChief as I think most of us will be replacing our larger HDDs within the next couple of years as the prices continue to drop on the SSDs, but if something goes wrong with the drive before we get there, it's good to know you're dealing with a company that will back up the product.
 
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If I had that experience, I'd probably be right there with you.
Fortunatly, I've been "blessed" on luck with samsung. main TV going on 4 years, my last three monitors have been samsung (a 24 in monitor/HDTV and the 27 In monitor HDTV, the last one is a 32 in LED HDTV that I'm using as a Monitor/HDTV).

But My experience with samsung Monitor/TV's has NO beariing on my choice for HDDs - I have NO loyalties - LOL. I've switched between maxtor (before bought by seagate), seagate, Untill the -11 fiaco, WD Blacks (WD blu and Green are - well I would never Buy), And prior to my failures with WD blacks (the 640 gig Models), I had switched to Samsung F3's ( I would probable go with WD Blacks vs Samsung F4's). So on HDDs,at least two WD Blacks sitting on the floor - NOTE, my WD black 1 TB SATA III is still going strong and bought when the first came out. Verses No falures on the 4 F3s I've bought.
As mentioned, it's not the replacement, it's the hassle of having to re-construct what was on the drive That I hate - I do backups, BUT not real religiously.
 
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I hear you.
 
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