Quiet and cool 2TB+ drive

tooth · 24 May 2012 at 23:30

Hi, I have a bit of a small stuffy case, and I'm doing my best to improve airflow and reduce heat. For part of this, I'm planning to replace my 2 1TB 7200rpm drives with a single 2TB drive, dumping the hard drive bay, and moving it below the DVDrom.

I don't think i'm too fussed about the RPM, but something quiet, and preferably cool (less platters = less heat??) would be good.

I would normally just get the WD cav black's, but they are just too expensive right now. I was looking at the hitachi but I heard they were bought by WD and I don't want to buy an end of line product. The WD greens - I keep reading they use quite old tech, more platters, slow speeds, is this true or only certain models?

Thanks

wazza300 · 25 May 2012 at 00:07

samsung f4,silent and cool,fast too

afroken23 · 27 May 2012 at 12:05

wazza300 said:
samsung f4,silent and cool,fast too

Anyone bought one of these drives recently? I've read a few (user) reviews that indicate that since Seagate took over, the F4s aren't quite as reliable as they once were.

wazza300 · 27 May 2012 at 12:08

i have 2 of them and no problems,ive bought lots of samsung drives f1/f3/f4 no dead ones

afroken23 · 27 May 2012 at 12:24

Thanks for the info. So these were purchased after Seagate purchased Samsung's hard drive business?

wazza300 · 27 May 2012 at 12:27

some yes,i dont think they have changed anything,just bad luck really,you do get some failures with every component but they do come with warranties,its easy to put it down to seagates buyout ect

BlackBat · 27 May 2012 at 17:01

"I would normally just get the WD cav black's, but they are just too expensive right now. I was looking at the hitachi but I heard they were bought by WD and I don't want to buy an end of line product."

I wouldn't concern myself over it, the worse case scenario is that if you had to RMA the drive during the warranty period then you may (although not likely) get a WD drive as a replacement. If you're still worried about this then don't consider a Samsung drive as a similiar thing may happen (only you may get a Seagate HDD).
Whatever drive you get, if it fails outside it's warranty period (2 years?) then you're going to have to bin it and buy a new one anyway. I've not long ago retired an old (10ish years) Maxtor HDD because it was getting slightly noisy, remember Maxtor? They were bought up by Seagate too, I wonder how long we'll be seeing the Samsung name on HDD's? As far as the Hitachi name and HDD's go, one of the provisos for WD is that they need to sell off part of the business to another company (AFAIK Toshiba) to manufacture HDD's (so there will still be three HDD manufacturers) if they want to continue to sell HDD's in Europe and China.
Either way if you don't want to risk buying a potential EOL product, then buy a Seagate or WD drive, it shouldn't matter though as they're all pretty much as good as one another and you're covered for the warranty period whatever name's on the box.