Which Hard Drive?

[Kale]

I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want a few opinions

I was going to order 2 x 500G
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148136 Together both o
these drives will cost $240.
I've also been thinking about going with 1 x 1TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148274 This one driv
will cost $330.
The 500GB drives are 7200rpm 16mb Cache and the 1TB drive is 7200rp
32mb Cache. Do you think the 32mb Cache is worth the extra $90. If I g
with the 2 x 500GB that would leave enough money to buy another 2GB RA
for a total of 4GB then I would load Windows Vista Ultimate 64bi
instead of 32bit. Or instead of the 2GB RAM I might buy another MS
nVidia Geforce 8600gts and try my hand at SLi. Both of these option
will most likely come later but I could afford one or the other now i
I go with the 2 x 500GB instead of the 1 x 1TB Hard Drive.
Which Drive(s) would you buy?
2 x 500GB 7200rpm 16mb Cache
1 x 1TG 7200rpm 32mb Cache
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[Bob I]

I'd buy the 2. Less expensive and you can cross back up important data
between the drives.

 

[Kenny]

Just make sure they're not Maxtor, those links wouldn't open for me.

 

[LVTravel]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274 Seagate
Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
Drive - OEM is $274.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288 Seagate
Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
Drive - OEM is $119.99

Since both the drives I showed are Seagate 7200 RPMs with 32 MB cache, I
would order the 2 X 500 GB at $120 each with free shipping for $240 and save
$35.00

Don't know where you got the prices for the two drives on your OP but these
from the same company are better pricing and the two drives are "same
speed".

 

[NoConsequence]

I'm going to order my new Hard Drives tomorrow and want a few opinions.

I was going to order 2 x 500GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148136 Together both of
these drives will cost $240.
I've also been thinking about going with 1 x 1TB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148274 This one drive
will cost $330.
The 500GB drives are 7200rpm 16mb Cache and the 1TB drive is 7200rpm
32mb Cache. Do you think the 32mb Cache is worth the extra $90. If I go
with the 2 x 500GB that would leave enough money to buy another 2GB RAM
for a total of 4GB then I would load Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
instead of 32bit. Or instead of the 2GB RAM I might buy another MSI
nVidia Geforce 8600gts and try my hand at SLi. Both of these options
will most likely come later but I could afford one or the other now if
I go with the 2 x 500GB instead of the 1 x 1TB Hard Drive.
Which Drive(s) would you buy?
2 x 500GB 7200rpm 16mb Cache
1 x 1TG 7200rpm 32mb Cache
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Why ask here? What hard drives you decide to buy is purely a hardware
question, a personal preference, and your question has abolutely
NOTHING to do with the OS.

Ask elsewhere.