Hard-Drive speed / platter / performance question...

[Coco]

I am planning to get a Samsung 40G Hard-Drive with 2 disk, 4 heads, is that considered good? It's 20G / platter.

Or should I go for a cheaper 20G model with 1 disk, 2 heads? It's also 20G / platter.

Both running at 5400rpm. Size doesn't matter to me, Anything above 10G is too much for me anyway, so... which one will give me better performance?

Is there any other HDD that you can recommend with more than 20G / platter? I am thinking of Samsung coz it's cheap and I had experience with their HDD and it's pretty reliable IMO.

[smb]

All I know about Samsung is that they are fairly easy to RMA. I RMA'd a 3 year old 4 gig and they had no problems rmaing it.

I would be more concerned with seek times. there would probably be no dfference between the two, unless one has a bigger buffer.

[CaterpillarAssassin]

Yeah prolly no difference unless buffers are different like smb said. They both equal out to be 1 disk & 2 heads/platter.