7200.10 Full Spec?

Hmmmm, I wonder how noisy these are in comparison to Samsung spinpoints?
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hi there i have both, but only the 120gig version of the samsung. and can tell you it is not as quite but there is hardly ANYTHIGN in it.

for some reason it is idle @40c
while both my raptors are about 37c.

fantastic drive, will get another soon..
 
I agree that these drives do get quite errr warm, which may mean you need a cooling solution noisier than the drive itself (kinda defeats the point)

The performance seems stunning after extended use, running games off it seems equal to if not better than my raptor. However i must say im running windows off the raptor, so it has a continually high load.

So if you put games on them or they are continually under load, decent cooling/airflow is a must (as with any drive) which may put some 'quiet' users off having them. But used purely for storage they should be pretty happy with a few case fans.

Glad everyone else likes theirs :)
 
dark_shadow said:
Hmmmm, I wonder how noisy these are in comparison to Samsung spinpoints?

Anyone owners of both care to shed some light? :)
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i owe the samsung p120s and its luck of the draw really depending what motor you get the jvc and nidacbeen the quitest.

the samsung its quite but not that quite in my opinion so comparing the seagate thats i ould love to know as well.

thanks
 
I'm thinking of jumping on this Seagate 7200.10 320GB bandwagon too - the price is too good to turn down.

I'll be buying one to use internally, and it will be the 4th drive in my Antec SLK3700 mid-tower Case. Given the comments on how hot this drive runs it sounds like it will be probably be worth my while adding a front 120mm fan at the same time. Thoughts?

I'll by a second and the enermax sata/ide usb2 external enclosure to use it with for backups.

Can't argue with 320GB fully externally backed up for ~£180 delivered.
 
i got two of these coming soon (i hope)

going to run them in raid0

i got two 250gb 7200.8 drives in raid0 as well.

i can post up some tests comparing the two diff drive types in raid0 if any one cares?
 
Goksly said:
wanted to get two of these for my shuttle, but the anandtech review has worried me slightly about the heat output with low air flow ;(
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Goksly, i fitted 2 of these in my Shuttle SN25P yesterday and ive not noticed any problems with heat.
 
djay said:
Goksly, i fitted 2 of these in my Shuttle SN25P yesterday and ive not noticed any problems with heat.
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cheers mate.... done any type of reading on them, or the good old hand on top of hdd or even shuttle case? tis unusual for anandtech to question stuff heat wise for no reason!

Thanks :)
 
Have ordered 2 of these Seagate 7200.10s from OCUK this afternoon, and they're shipped for monday delivery.

Will raid 0 these to try raid out for the first time (installing Vista Beta 2 public release). I've also ordered the enclosures.

Will benchmark when I get time.
 
Hey nO}{8,

I got my hdds today (7200.10s 320gb) and RAID 0 them.

I get 106mb/s, but 5% cpu utilisation and the same burst speed as you.

I think it's cos of my controller (a PCI controller - silicon image 3114) and that it's going through a SATA150 interface?

Would I see a difference by putting these in raid 0 via my motherboard - Abit IC7?
 
Probably yes, if it avoids the PCI bus. For comparison: My Asus K8V SE deluxe with Promise 378 RAID 0 and 2x74Gb Raptors does about 100Mb/sec or so sustained (via PCI bus), whereas the VIA8237 does 140Mb/sec sustained peak, clearly sidestepping the PCI limit:



Here's my 7200.10 320Gb (currently on the Promise controller, and thus going via the PCI bus):

 
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