How quiet are Seagates?

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After a good performing drive, yet also a quiet one. How quiet are the Seagate 7200.10s? They're amongst the best performing drives but if they're noisy I'm not interested.

Idle whine doesn't tend to be much of an issue with modern drives with fluid bearings, but I'm not sure about the seek noise. Do the Seagates have any accoustic management which can be enabled to quieten them down?

Cheers for any info.
 
My 7200.10 is inaudible but apparantly it depends on which motor is used, one is noted by pink glue being used and the other has green glue, I can't remember offhand which is which but a search of this forum should throw up which. Other than that the Western Digital AAKS drives are worth looking at, a shade faster and supposedly very quiet indeed. :)
 
I started a thread "can you hear it" asking about quite drives but no reply as of yet. But this seems to be answering my questions.

How does the Seagate and the WD hold up against the Samsung spinpoints. At the end of the day I just want quieter drives than I have at present.
 
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Just found the monster thread on the Seagates and the "pink" glue issue.

As quietness is a major priority here I think I'm gonna play it safe and go with a Samsung.
 
I read that and i really think its luck of the draw. I purchased my 2 seagates months apart. One has pink glue and i believe the other is green. Both drives are very quiet and fast enough for my system. So i think its a bit suck it and see and remember if you opt for the seagates and it turns out to be a noisy one well return it within the 7 days using the distance selling act.

Chris
 
When you say the drives are quiet, is that just the idle noise or the seeks as well. Most of the discussions seem to relate to idle whine but I don't want a drive which is noisy when accessing.

I'm currently contemplating popping into OcUK this afternoon as I could do with the drive for the weekend so the DSR won't apply if I get a noisy one. Was just planning to check for pink glue before buying but it would seem that even this isn't a foolproof indicator of getting a quiet one.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Just found the monster thread on the Seagates and the "pink" glue issue.

As quietness is a major priority here I think I'm gonna play it safe and go with a Samsung.
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Yep, I've tried the seagates, and have had noisey and quiet ones. The samsungs are much quieter. :)
 
Its neither noisy seeking or at idle but then my system has a 8800gtx, a zalman 9700 cpu cooler and three case fans and a pci cooler to aid the graphics card. So its not the quietest but i cant hear them at all. I have heard noisy h/drives and i find myself looking to the led to see if there working sometimes so i would definitely say mines are really quiet.

If you do go for it then remember to take off the jumper on them next to the sata port. Having the jumper on keeps them at sata1 150 mb/s and not sata2 300mb/s for
people who dont have a board that supports sata2. Other than that ive been more than happy with mine and although id buy a new drive if one failed the 5 year warranty speaks volumes for them.

Chris
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Yep, I've tried the seagates, and have had noisey and quiet ones. The samsungs are much quieter. :)
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Well, reading up on Samsung's latest, it appears that they may be quiet but suffer from a bit of physical vibration.

This is concerning, firstly because such vibration would transfer to the case and cause more noise (no I'm not about to buy rubber mounts or enclosures to minimise this - why the hell should I have to) and secondly, I can't see any logical reason why a hard drive should vibrate unless it's poorly balanced, which doesn't speak too well about their manufacturing tolerances in my view.

Dunno what the hell to do :(
 
Well i have to say that with anything that has a moving part then vibration is always going to be part of the equation unfortunately. Rubber gromets can be used if you think it does suffer from excessive noise, however i get the feeling your thinking too hard about this. If you look at the bigger picture then all manufacturers will be equal. Some might be faster some might be a little bit quieter. I would just go to overclockers with the intention of purchasing a hard drive and speak to them and let them help you.

Im sure you'll be more than happy with what you get and then you'll fit it and its quiet then realise something else is noisy and then you'll go round and round in circles lol.

Anyway good luck. Let us know what you decide

Chris
 
I'm now contemplating getting a Deskstar as these drives have the acoustic management options to quieten the seeks down if they're too noisy. Don't think any other manufacturers have this system any more, do they?
 
Vertigo1 said:
I'm now contemplating getting a Deskstar as these drives have the acoustic management options to quieten the seeks down if they're too noisy. Don't think any other manufacturers have this system any more, do they?
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got a samsung drive that i used the hitachi software on and it made a difference.

last drive i got was a seagate and it compares very well to the samsung, very happy with the lack of noise from both of them.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Well, reading up on Samsung's latest, it appears that they may be quiet but suffer from a bit of physical vibration.
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Yep, my sammies do vibrate somewhat, but the idle hum is the quietest out of any of the HD's around today.

Here's what I've done to eliminate vibration noise:
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Suspended with shock cord. This rig is fanless, and is damn quiet - cannot hear seeks at all. :)

How many are you going to get? If you just have 1, then you could easily suspend it in a 5.25" bay with shock cord. Costs around £1, and it worth it to eliminate vibration - sammy or no sammy. :)
 
Seagate HDD's quiet. My ***.

I brought 2 of them a couple of months ago (pink glue).

Noisiest things in the world.

Making that reading sound ALL the time as well as being slow as "hell"

:( That was a waste of £85 on 640gb
 
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