Best 1TB hard drive - Suggestions?

Hello, i'm planning on purchasing a 1TB hard drive for my desktop. I know i want the fastest SATA-type drive avaliable, but don't know which drive is best? Does anyone recommend any brands and/or models to get?

 

The Samsung drives are quite fast, but have some compatibility issues. As a sure bet, I'd go with the Seagates for speed. Western Digital Greenpowers are very good for power consumption, heat and noise, but not quite frontline for speed.

 

Yeah i'm looking for speed, i'll just strap on a fan for any heat issues. Thanks!!!

 

Yeah, the Seagate drives are probably your best bet. In truth though, 1TB drives are never going to be anywhere near as fast as 10K drives or SSDs.

 

Yeah, i could imagine. Well thanks for the info, i appreciate your help.

 

What are Cache, well i know what it is? Like does it affect speed alot on hdd? I'm thinking bout 750GB drive 16mb or 32mb.

 

The answer to that doesn't really appear set in stone yet. Samsung and Seagate rave about it working wonders but the real world benchmarks don't show a big improvement, and Western Digital, the company I usually buy hard drives from haven't adopted it at all, and their drives are plenty fast enough.

 

thanks. i tried googleing couldn't find much info besides cost.
Also srry to steal threads.

 

I'd say 2 500GBers RAIDED is still better than a 1TB drive no matter brand or cache.

 

I wouldn't - you will always lose out if you RAID two drives - redundancy with RAID 0, capacity with RAID 1, and access latency with either. The only occasions I suggest using RAID are when using 4+ drives and RAID5/6/10, with a proper RAID card. 'Pretend RAID' as I call it is rarely worth the hassle - I know, I've used it before, it was thoroughly unimpressive.