Given the choice from these two hard drives, which will give better performance for gaming? FYI - both drives have 8mb cache. http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,352,00.html http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144200

My current system specs are: Win XP P4 2.8ghz(800fsb)Northwood core 1512gb Dual Channel PC2700 6800GT (8xAGP) Asus Motherboard for Sony Vaio

My knowledge on SCSI disks is very limited, the only thing I know is that the disks are usually more expensive than SATA disks. Which Asus motherboard do you have? Honestly, I doubt that it has an integrated SCSI controller. I've only seen this on older systems (<1998) That would mean that you have to buy an controller and believe me, those are very expensive. Personally, I think the extra money is not worth that extra speed. So if i'd had to choose, i'd keep an eye on the SATA disk. And can I give you two more advices? -I have the Raptor myself and I must say that I hardly notice the difference in speed. I even believe that a Maxtor with 16MB cache is even faster and A LOT cheaper compaired to it's capacity. And with SATA-2 coming up... -But, if you insist on buying the Raptor I assume this will be your primary drive including OS, programs etc? If so, I strongly advice to save up for the 74GB version. Because believe me, 37GB nowadays for a 'primary' drive is not enough. And yes I do like gaming too :) Good luck and let me know what you decide ~Liz Intel P4 3.2E Ghz@ 3.8Ghz Asus P4P800-E Deluxe Kingston 2GB PC3200 Asus AX800 Pro w/ZM80D-HP WD Raptor 37 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300 GB Asus E616P1 Plextor PX-740A Reserator 1