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Thread Seagate barracuda hard drives. R they the best? What's the best spec?

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1 Seagate barracuda hard drives. R they the best? What's the best spec?
OK, I'm thinking of buying another hard drive to improve my computers performance and seem to remember the Seagate barracuda 80gb as being one that stood out with you musical people a few years ago. Well I've seen this one listed on Overclockers site....

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ATA-100 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250620A)
£46.99 inc VAT

Stock Code: HD-087-SE

The Barracuda 7200.10 is the most reliable disc drive around. New perpendicular recording technology supports vertically stored data bits, enabling increased areal density and dependability for workstations and performance PCs.

- Capacity: 250GB
- Cache: 16MB
- Interface: ATA-100
- Spin Speed: 7200RPM
- Seek Time: 11.0ms
- Warranty: 5 Years

Is this ideal for the job? I'm guessing the cache at 16mb is good? Or should I be looking at the seek time?


Please can you help a duffer?????
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I'd buy Seagate over any other brands out there right now. For most audio applications the drive you mention should be totally fine. If you want to squeeze a bit more out of ide, you can look for Ultra ATA 133. To get any seriously better performance than that, you're looking at SATA, SCSI, or raid.