How quiet are the Samsung Spinpoint drives?

mattbill · 16 May 2007 at 14:37

comtemplating selling my 74gb raptor for a Samsung Spinpoint drive as I have read they are reasonably quick and very quiet.

Can anyone defo confirm this? I would be looking into getting the 16Mb Cache versions i think havent decided on size yet.

Thanks folks

mattbill · 16 May 2007 at 16:38

i think they have an uber quiet mode, which is silent but the down side is the drive reads slower... i think

mattbill · 17 May 2007 at 15:31

I went for the 250Gb in the end! I couldnt spend £80 odd (inc postage) on the 500Gb, just had a mental block about it lol.

I can always get another in the future and RAID them, if i need to add more space

mattbill · 18 May 2007 at 12:41

mine just arrived, gonna install after work! it is a possibility that ill RAID them, dont know if i will cos it can be risky aye?