Notebook Drives

Shostakovich

Shostakovich

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I want to put one of these in a desktop computer, for sound reasons. Ie. quiet!

Now, the one I am going for is the Scorpios, which got a cracking review on silentpcreview. It is of course SATA, but being 5400rpm, will I get much of a performance decrease, when playing a game, for example?
 
You'll see a fair difference between a 5400rpm laptop drive and a decent 7200rpm 3.5" drive. The spindle speed limits the rate at which data passes under the read head as does the physically smaller platter. and therefore the transfer rate will be a lot lower than a 3.5" 7200 rpm disk.
 
That article talks a lot of truth, but in the past couple of years HDD's really have come a long way.
 
If you are intent on a laptop drive, get the Seagate Momentus 7200.2.

It's based on perpendicular recording tech and will be about as fast, in terms of sustained transfer, as a 'normal' i.e. parallel recording tech, desktop 3.5" drive. Excellent drives. Can probably pull about 55MB/s sustained. You'll pay slightly more, but these are really the laptop drive kings.
 
Given the cost of the 2.5" drives I would suggest you look at something like the Silentmaxx enclosure (OcUK used to sell them - still can't find them, but they are probably there!) You would be able to get a 500Gb drive, silenced, for less than the Momentus (though that would be my choice too if you absolutely had to go for it!). - There is now a copper version of these that is even better than the old silentmaxx enclosure - I'd get one of those

(Found it):

Smart Drive HDD Silencer 2002C

Effective cooling up to 15k scsi :eek: Expensive - but worth it imo!

Momentus 7200.2 (160Gb) - £101

or

Seagate 7200.10 (320Gb) - £52
Smart Drive HDD Silencer 2002C - £58 (ish)
= £110

I know what I'd prefer - and TBH one of the £25 aluminium enclosures would mean you could get 500Gb for the cost of 160Gb ;)
 
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