Using three Samsungs HDs myself, one on active duty, two others as external image backups. Never had a problem with any of the three. If one can trust the press, Samsung HDs have a good reputation anyway. Also, they are silent. Very silent.
Make several partitions, else defragging can become a time-consuming affair with HDs of today's sizes. Think about in advance how to sort your software to make it less likely that each time you did something you need to defragg several volumes. I for example use separate partitions for windows, swapfile, non-gaming/office/working software, working data & and save games, games, Flightsim. I do so for no other reason than to keep things in clean order and to minimize defragging times. Also, if you have all save games and working data in just one place, it helps you tremendously when doing regular backups to CD-RWs, you just copy the complete partition, and that's it.
Sound question: No, it is not worth it, imo.
One question you might want to ask: what do you want to do with 4 GB? Video editing? Okay. Anything else: think again about it.
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