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Not hard, AMD are the noise kings lol.

Plus the 980 cooler fans don't spin at all unless the temp reaches a certain figure. My TwinFrozr has multiple fans, they spin up one by one as and when needed during gaming. They are all off when using the PC for non gaming things.
 
Yep also noticed a massive drop in general noise when I went from AMD to my 780 TI (the stock cooler version).

Honestly can't see myself going back to AMD in the near future, if ever.
 
MagicBoy said:
No need for over-reaction. The current AMD cards with custom coolers do the same trick.
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When did that start? I had the 290 Tri-X, and while it was quiet in desktop mode, I could hear the fans when gaming through my headphones! That and heat was the reason I switched back to nvidia.
 
This isn't the thread for that discussion - there's a graphics card forum. ;)

Started with the 300 series, although my 290 was inaudible at the desktop in a water-cooled PC.
 
pepp77 said:
Bought a few Hard Drives

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These will be replacing some older 2TB drives, which in turn will be moved to replace a 500GB and 2x1TBs in my NAS.
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No harm, but send them back before you open them and get the reds. The greens while fine for a desktop, will fail inside a NAS in no time.
 
Just before christmas we decided to get a new car. 2015 Nissan Pathfinder Platinum at a super bargainicious price.
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oof! The truck behind makes it look quite small, although it is a 7 seater with 20" rims.


Walk The Plank, a quick play board/card game for the dark nights
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and a 5TB external drive for the xbone. Hopefully it'll last for a few years.
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teaboy5 said:
No harm, but send them back before you open them and get the reds. The greens while fine for a desktop, will fail inside a NAS in no time.
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Technically true, my greens are still going fine with 3 years uptime, one replaced before it failed by WD.
Think they had over a million head parks though (the 2 oldest ones!)
 
ive got 5 year old samsungs in my NAS/server. im not convinced by this whole "NAS specific" drive thing. especially for home/power users. enterprise maybe.
 
To get this back on topic.

The greens are going into a DAS (Direct Attached Storage) unit where they will sit alongside a few other 2TB and 3TB Green drives. These are used for local storage on a windows 8.1 machine.

The 2TBs they are replacing are Samsung 203WI units (about 5 years old). These I am moving to my NAS (read Microserver running XPenology) where they are used for local backup and also so I can access files easily when out of the house. This will give me 6TB on the NAS with ne drive fault tolerance and one hot swap available. Nothing stored on here is not also stored elsewhere in case of catastrophic failure.

I have never bought specific NAS drives and probably never will for home use as I have never had an issue not :)

Oh yeah I forgot to say, bought these yesterday as they sound awesome

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Ditto here, I've 4x 2TB WD Greens, been in my Synology for near 4 years and show no signs of bad sectors or SMART failure. Except now that I've said that they will all fail tomorrow...

That said when it comes time to replace I will likely go for Reds.
 
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I was so close to purchasing an iMac but I think you'll all mostly agree that I've gone down a more righteous path. :D

EVGA 980ti FTW Edition - Jeeeesus! This thing is insanely fast, what an upgrade from a 7950.

BenQ BL3201PT - 32" 4K - Coming from a 1080p 30hz monitor, this thing has me smiling ear to ear!

Logitech G502

Corsair K70 RGB (Cherry MX Brown) - My first encounter with a mechanical keyboard. I am never going back.


Saitek X55 H.O.T.A.S


Logitech G29 - Gaming on Euro Truck Simulator 2 has been taken to new heights!
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Holy jesus! Very jealous
 
neil_g said:
have to chuckle at the comments on that article. people panicking over having seagate drives in their NAS. if the data has a level of redundancy AND is backed up then why panic.
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Two drives failing at a time... Happened to me with those abysmal 3tb seagates

First one failed, second failed on rebuild :( before they were even 18 months old.

As for NAS specific drives... It's more to do with the firmware applied and sometimes longer warranty too, than inherent build quality.

A green will not last as long as a red because of the increased frequency of spin up/down and temperature increase/decrease in a NAS environment... Otherwise they are all good drives, at least from WD ;)
 
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