western digital scorpio or samsung spinpoint hard drive

[Breckon]

I am finding it very difficult to decide for which of these two hard drives to go for. Should I go for a western digital scorpio 500gb or samsung spinpoint mp2 250gb 7200rpm. I have also compared their prices and western digital hard drives are much cheaper than samsung spinpoint. So can anyone tell me which one of these two hard drives is the best to go for? Thank you

[EINSTEIN_007]

I would advise you to go for Western Digital Scorpio 500GB cause I have heard that the samsung spinpoint hard drive are very noisy and are very costly. So go for Western digital hard drive, it also comes with 5 years warranty.

[ApPy10]

Yes, Western Digital are known to make nice hard drives, and I have also got a few Western Digital Raptors in my pc and none of them have had any issues till yet . I would expect the same with the 2.5" hard drives, especially since the 500GB Scorpios perform as well as 7200rpm drives.

[TEcH GuRuJI]

You didnt mention which size HDDyou need. If 500GB then the WD5000BEVT is the better choice.

However, I don't know whether the improvements in this HDD have been reflected in the current smaller capacity WD HDDs. According to WD, the Scorpio Blue HDDs have a 3 year warranty.

[SledgeHammer]

Go for WD.