Best 1tb HDD for HTPC, cool and quiet?

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I've got a 320gb Western Digital something or other in there at the moment, but I'm looking to have that as my OS drive, and a 1tb drive alongside it for my media, or possibly just a 1tb drive to replace the 320gb entirely..

Cool, quiet, and cheap would be nice please, and I suppose a turn of speed could be advantageous too. ;)
 
I recently bought a trio of Seagate 12 series and pair of Samsung green (f2?) 1tb drives for our machines here and have to say I'm really impressed with both models, they are both very quiet, about the same (or less noise) than my older Seagate drives (which were quiet), with the Samsung being a little quieter and slower than the Seagate.

Even the Samsung is pretty fast.
 
Thanks for the reply.

I'll probably go for the Samsung F2 then, got a 1tb F1 in my main machine, and it's been great so far, and the F2 also appears to be about the cheapest 1tb drive at the moment too. :D
 
Im runnin 5 Samsung F1's atm 1TB and 320Gb varities.

Both versions are fantastically quiet and all are running quite cool ~25deg last time I checked.

AFAIK the amsung F2 ecogreens are the same drives but just slower RPM, which again would decrease both noise and heat. At the prices the F1 and F2s have been available for recently I'd go with them
 
broona said:
Care to elaborate? ;)
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WD offer 5 year warranties on their hard drives (the one I suggested anyway) whereas Samsung offer 3 for a start. Also, WD have a MTBF of around 1.2 million hours whereas Samsung have 600,000 hours. Source: a Custom PC review and their respective websites.
 
miniyazz said:
I remain to be convinced on the reasoning for that over a drive with an extra 500GB space, costing £7 more.
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Sorry about double post.

Yes but when you take into account that WD drives are far more reliable than Samsung, that is insignificant.
Ultimately, you buy a 1tb+ hard drive for major storage for games, music, films etc that have been accumulated over time, and I'd rather be safe in the knowledge that I've invested a little more money into a hard drive that's going to last me longer than 1-2 years. A good HDD should last an absolute minimum of 5 years. I have an old 80gb Maxtor that's 7 years old and only just started clicking (oddly enough it still works very well :D.
 
Paddyw01 said:
Sorry about double post.

Yes but when you take into account that WD drives are far more reliable than Samsung, that is insignificant.
Ultimately, you buy a 1tb+ hard drive for major storage for games, music, films etc that have been accumulated over time, and I'd rather be safe in the knowledge that I've invested a little more money into a hard drive that's going to last me longer than 1-2 years. A good HDD should last an absolute minimum of 5 years. I have an old 80gb Maxtor that's 7 years old and only just started clicking (oddly enough it still works very well :D.
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I see what you are saying. But since it should be backed up anyway, for many people the priority will be on having more space. A drive failure once every 2 years rather than once every 5 years doesn't matter when it's backed up, but having 500GB more space is worth the extra £14 (presuming you buy a second, to back up the first).
 
Paddyw01 said:
Sorry about double post.

Yes but when you take into account that WD drives are far more reliable than Samsung, that is insignificant.
Ultimately, you buy a 1tb+ hard drive for major storage for games, music, films etc that have been accumulated over time, and I'd rather be safe in the knowledge that I've invested a little more money into a hard drive that's going to last me longer than 1-2 years. A good HDD should last an absolute minimum of 5 years. I have an old 80gb Maxtor that's 7 years old and only just started clicking (oddly enough it still works very well :D.
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I would make sure you have evidence to support a sweeping statement like that, personanly i have had 7 hard drives fail that were WD and 1 that was a Samsung, sinse then ive only been buying Seagates i must have bought around 15-20 and not 1 has arrivfed dead or failed Seagate offfer 5 year warrenty on all thier drives IIRC aswell.
 
Black Hat said:
I would make sure you have evidence to support a sweeping statement like that, personanly i have had 7 hard drives fail that were WD and 1 that was a Samsung, sinse then ive only been buying Seagates i must have bought around 15-20 and not 1 has arrivfed dead or failed Seagate offfer 5 year warrenty on all thier drives IIRC aswell.
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TBH the Samsungs do have a lesser warrantee than the WDs, but I'm firmly of the opinion anyway that there's no great difference in the reliability of consumer drives.
 
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