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The main differences are price and the WD drive uses 2 platters vs 3 on the samsung. Less platters = better and the extra 25$ for the samsung isn't worth it for another 110GB imo.

All in all they are both good drives.
 
is there really a difference betweek 16mb and 32mb cache?

thanks
 
just for interest as well, which company would make the more stable/longer lasting drive?
i've debated over WD 640Gb and Samsung 750GB myself as well.
 
Just my 2 cents, I got the WD6400AAKS about a month ago. It is by far the fastest HDD I've ever used. It took me less than 2 minutes to transfer around 50GB of movies, and I think the biggest bottleneck was me. ;) It was like moving the data from one part of my HDD to another.
 
Rich'[ard] said:
just for interest as well, which company would make the more stable/longer lasting drive?
i've debated over WD 640Gb and Samsung 750GB myself as well.
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No one can answer that. Most consumer hard drives have very comparable failure rates(MTBF). There have certainly been some known models as clunkers such as IBM's Deskstars(aka Deathstars) a bunch of years ago. Maxtor is pretty much the only brand I don't consider, but even I know that's pretty much subjective experience. I say go with the best performer, the WD640.
 
it is more then just platters being 2 and 3..

the WD has more DENSE platters - thus is it faster. think of it as a different architecture then the other drive.
 
I ordered that drive from newegg Friday night EST for $84.99 shipped!

Edit: Now its back to $84.99. This morning the link above showed $109.99 + shipping.
 
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Man, twelve years ago my electronics professor had a 40gb drive. I couldn't believe anyone could need that much space. Now look how cheap things are. :) :) :)
 
I just got a 640Gig as a external backup drive last week. Its great. 475Gig backed up in ~90min.


BigBadBaz said:
Just my 2 cents, I got the WD6400AAKS about a month ago. It is by far the fastest HDD I've ever used. It took me less than 2 minutes to transfer around 50GB of movies, and I think the biggest bottleneck was me. ;) It was like moving the data from one part of my HDD to another.
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Might be stretching that a bit far... 50,000 Meg / 120sec = 416meg a sec = not possible for any drive out currently on market. 9min is a more respectiable number ;)
 
deathman20 said:
I just got a 640Gig as a external backup drive last week. Its great. 475Gig backed up in ~90min.




Might be stretching that a bit far... 50,000 Meg / 120sec = 416meg a sec = not possible for any drive out currently on market. 9min is a more respectiable number ;)
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Possibly. :)

All I know is that I was hitting Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V as fast as I could and the tranferring was keeping pace with me. Never more than 3 files transferring at once. And I mean movie files (>700MB).

I'm afraid i wasn't watcjing the clock, but it certainly didn't fell like it took more than 2 minutes. ;)
 
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