Want to know which is the best Hard Drive option?

Question

Please can someone tell me which Hard Drive is better :
(A) 500GB Dual Hard Drive Non RAID or
(B) 320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16mb Databurst Cache.

I'm not very good with computers and its for my sons birthday so any help much appreciated.

Mainly gaming & design software.

Answer 1

I would go to the B) option because the speed of the HD and the CACHE feature.

Answer 2

You did not mention what kind of a connector drive (A) uses. But drive B uses a SATA connector. If your computer is over a year old it may not have a SATA connector, but the older IDE. That will be a determining factor in what hard drive you pruchase.

Drive (A) is a Dual Hard Drive, meaning that you only have half of the 500 GB available for your use. The other half is used to make a copy of the drive so that should the first half crash, the second half can be used to restore the computer without losing anything. It is not really intended for a "home" computer, but for a commercial server or storage server. Not knowing what your son will be doing with the drive, it is hard to know whether to recommend it.

Sorry that I can't say "get this one", but hopefuly the info will let you make a more informed decision.

Answer 3

Home users shouldn't need a RAID hard drive system, it's more for business use.

That said, Item "B' may be a better choice, as long as the motherboard supports SATA drives.

You didn't indicate brand name, So my experience is: Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital are good units, with a 5 year warranty, the Seagate comes in 1st place.

Answer 4

i think they will both do equally no one will ever use that much space you would be good with 120GB are you just buying the hard drive or the whole CPU if its the whole CPU there are a ton of other factors if your just buying the hard drive that is overkill

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Answer 5

It depends on how much cache the 500GB hard drive has, as well as the RPM.

500>320. But without knowing the speed and cache of the 500, one can't say which is better.

Also depends on what you want to do? Video editing? Video gaming? Normal use? Mass storage?

Answer 6

320GB would be nice.. provided that your son has a Serial ATA slot on his mother board..

500GB has a larger storage capacity which means your son can put more files and stuff to his computer..
320GB is also large but i think it would be more typical to buy 320GB..its more cheaper..500GB is too much for your son..

its better to go with 320 even for gaming..

Answer 7

From the sound of it (A) is two hard drives (totalling 1,000GB or 1TB), and B is a single 320 gb hard drive. If you're going for raw capacity, the first choice is more than 3x as much as B.

Answer 8

(A) 500GB Dual Hard Drive Non RAID duel if most of the time faster and RPM's in computers its KPS

Answer 9

16 mb cache is always the best option now.. and sata is the prefered drive now..

i only buy seagate drives as i had problems over the years with others..

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Answer 10

B is much more faster but both are in the same level so buy the one with bigger space so it will be the first one A happy birth day and have fun