Which Hard Drive?

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