Which HDD to choose

I have an option to get one (for free) one of the two hdd-s (80GB WD and 80GB Maxtor). Can anyone please help me with making the choice.

First one (hde - WD) has 8MB cache while the other one (hdg - Maxtor) has 2MB. That seems the only difference that I can notice. But hdparm test shows slightly better results for the second one (hdg - Maxtor) with less cache.

Test was performed on old BX mobo with UDMA-66 controller. My box is Asus A7N8X nVidia nForce2 - UDMA-133, and results may be different. It looks like WD is UDMA-100, while Maxtor is UDMA133. Is that correct?

I can not take both home and do performance test, I have to make decision which one to get on the spot. Can you help me make the choice?

---------------- HDD details:

#sbin-hdparm -idev-hde

dev-hde:

Model=WDC WD800JB-22JJA0, FwRev=05.01C05, SerialNo=WD-WMAM91970568 plus 1 RawCHS=16383-16-63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=66 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383-16-63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488 IORDY=on-off, tPIO={min:120,w-IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: device does not report version:

* signifies the current active mode

#sbin-hdparm -tdev-hde

dev-hde: Timing buffered disk reads: 124 MB in 3.03 seconds = 40.92 MB-sec

#sbin-hdparm -Tdev-hde

dev-hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 316 MB in 2.02 seconds = 156.44 MB-sec

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#sbin-hdparm -idev-hdg

dev-hdg:

Model=Maxtor 6Y080L0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y21RBLDC Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383-16-63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383-16-63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160086528 IORDY=on-off, tPIO={min:120,w-IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: (null):

* signifies the current active mode

#sbin-hdparm -tdev-hdg

dev-hdg: Timing buffered disk reads: 134 MB in 3.01 seconds = 44.52 MB-sec

#sbin-hdparm -Tdev-hdg

dev-hdg: Timing buffer-cache reads: 316 MB in 2.00 seconds = 158.00 MB-sec

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