Fastest Mechanical HDD?

Right, I've taken everything into account, thanks for the feedback, I shall let you know what I get in the end... providing my company actually pays us correctly ¬_¬

I'm too cheap because I can't exactly go all out on drives as I need surgery quite soon.
I can go 150 dorra but you know these things :P

And Phil2008, I have a Barracuda 1TB Sata 3 blah blah, I can't hear it over my case, aswell as reasonable performance for a storage drive.
 
Ceptic said:
Hows the reliability of them Sin_Chase?
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my 3tb one arrived yesterday, so far its still doing write 0's and verify tests on the drive using hdtune. will let it run overnight since i cant do much with the drive till tomorrow when i get some free time to stick it in my server.

the sequential transfer rates are very fast, access time is 15.2ms so not that great although i will be using it to just hold my hd video files so access times is not really fussed about but the fast sequential transfers are nice to have.

first time iv gona back to seagate in many years. hope they are considerably more reliable than the older ones. and hope they have no firmware issues otherwise im going back to western digital.
 
interesting, the AAM setting on this drive is locked to 128. anyone know of any software that can change it to 254?

tried hdtune and hard disk sentinel with no luck.
 
well after 23 hours of stress testing i got my drive in the server and got my data on it, ran a bench test for you guys too.
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do note that when i tested the drive in my microserver the peak transfer rate was no more than 140 megabytes per second. thats probably because the cpu is too slow or the sata ports are run by a poor performing chipset.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
interesting, the AAM setting on this drive is locked to 128. anyone know of any software that can change it to 254?

tried hdtune and hard disk sentinel with no luck.
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You could try smartmontools

All command line though.

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AAM is no longer available. In 2008, Seagate issued a statement announcing it was removing AAM capabilities from all its drives because Convolve alleged that one of its patents, US Patent No. 6,314,473, covers AAM technology. Western Digital began doing the same in 2011, without making any official announcements, nor updating their product documentation. The product specification sheets continue to claim (in March 2012) that there are different seek modes on their drives. However the hardware that is now manufactured does not allow control over AAM (for instance, the premium 1 TB Caviar Black (WD1002FAEX, SATA600, 3.5", 7200 RPM, 64 MB cache does not allow AAM to be enabled).
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As for stopping it parking heads (APM), there appears to be no setting management or firmware updates to achieve this on the STx000DM003s
 
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i will look into smartmontools, and see if it works. as for the head parking feature its something i dont want to disable since its a good feature for my usage.
 
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