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Originally Posted by 0o0 I had the 8800/9800gt scenario in mind, and the 9800gt is the same thing in terms of performance but is a lot harder to sell now that it's the previous generation. I'm just saying that the 32mb version may be more difficult to sell when all the drives are 64mb. The pro's to buying the 32mb version for me is that it's from ncix so the warranty is better, I save the pst and their hardware is kept in better environments. They should also have tler (need confirmation on this as wd has disabled on some drives), so it would be suitable for raid 1 (also need confirmation if raid 0 really needs tler, there's some controversial information on the interwebz). The 64mb is from bewawa, I just don't think their warehouse environment is very good. |
I was never made aware of any warehouse concerns regarding bewawa, or of higher DOA hardware coming from them either. Then again, I barely knew they existed until 2-3 weeks ago when they decided to have that HDD sales.
Anyhow, I'd say if you want the latest gadgets, go for the 6gbps version and sleep at night knowing you're living on the edge (hm, lol). If you're after a really budget drive, then grab a 2tb green for 10$ more and be happy about the capacity per $ value. The performance bottleneck of your hdd is not in the SATA connection but rather in the mechanical device itself.
Now if you were asking about 6gbps ssd's like those new sandforce controllers, it would be an entirely different argument.