Best Quiet Drives?

photoshop · 10 Jan 2014 at 18:24

Im looking at purchasing 2 drives. One for my music storage and one for movie storage. My existing drives are coming on 5yrs old so they are coming to the end of their lives and i dont want to loose all my stuff.

Western Digital Caviar Red seem to be getting high praise for their level of accoustics but I notice they run at 5900rpm but are SATA 6Gb/s.

Does this mean their are slower than my existing SATA 3Gb/s 7200rpm drives?

Im just thinking how this will affect extraction/moving file times.

Don't want them to compromise the speed of my SSD which is my windows drive.

wazza300 · 10 Jan 2014 at 19:23

the 5900rpm are just as quick as the 7200rpm drives tbh,just newer/faster tech

cahonis · 11 Jan 2014 at 10:03

The WD RED drives are ideally suited to NAS arrays and that's the why you pay a slightly higher premium for them. Unless you're putting those drives in a NAS/RAID it's not worth the additional spend.

If you want something quick from WD try the BLACK edition, or for power saving the GREEN ones.

kefan77 · 11 Jan 2014 at 10:06

photoshop said:
My existing drives are coming on 5yrs old so they are coming to the end of their lives and i dont want to loose all my stuff.

you could loose data on brand new drives even more easily. the only cure is backup.

photoshop · 11 Jan 2014 at 12:20

kefan77 said:
you could loose data on brand new drives even more easily. the only cure is backup.

Problem is....how do you backup 3Tb+ of stuff?

Raymond Lin · 11 Jan 2014 at 12:37

photoshop said:
Problem is....how do you backup 3Tb+ of stuff?

Run Raid5 in a NAS enclosure for redundancy at home.

Then off site back up either with copying all the data yourself and take it to a family member say...weekly, or use online cloud solution like Crashplan.

I put 4 x 3TB in a NAS recently and it is REALLY quiet.