Western Digital Caviar Blue 500gb vs Seagate Barracuda 1TB

chapapa07

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WD:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-136-073&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=303#scrollFullInfo&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=5635367&SID=skim26001X849541X678ce50fc50ea76c68ee9cb43253fd15

Seagate:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148697&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=5635367&SID=skim26001X849541Xa7ba98ead6ae9454ceb6000a10efc20d

Which one is better?, The difference in storage capacity does not matter at all to me, the WD costs $ 92 dollars while the seagate costs 120 in my country .

I want to replace my seagate 375 gb (400): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148432

I want to replace it because I am sure my hard drive is the cause of the low performance I get in some games like Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, Crysis 1 and Battlefield 3.

According to a program called CrystalDiskInfo, the status of my hard drive is "caution".

My seagate makes the same noise of a damaged seagate HDD shown in this video in the minute 1:47, my HDD doesn't make any click noise.

My pc:
Q83002.5 ghz Core 2 Quad
MSI GTX 550 OC edition you
4 gb ram ddr2 800
ecs g31tm7
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 550 W
1280x1024 maximum resolution

On Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction maxed out, when Im in an enclosed area or just looking at a small space, the usage of my my card (according to MSI Afterbunner) is between 75-87% and I get between 38 fps and 45 but when I'm in an open area the use of my card drop to 43-54%, my fps drops to 16-23. I have the exact same problem with crysis 1 at 1280x1024 aa off, on high or very high.

In Battlefield 3, on team deathmatch there are times when I get 38-41 average fps (the usage of the vcard is 92-98%) and suddenly my fps drops to 25-29 (the usage of the vcard drops to 67% ).
 

chapapa07

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What I meant with storage capacity doesnt matter was that I didnt care about the 500 gb difference between the seagate hdd and the WD HDD, if is over 400 gb is great.

I just can buy the HDDs listed above.