Reliable, quiet, fast

Craig321

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi,

I've been wanting to get a WD or Seagate, or whatever's best recently to I can use my current Maxtor as a backup drive.

What's the quietest (mainly spinning quietness, but also read quietness) most reliable 250GB-320GB hard drive out there?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
Could we maybe make this a poll please mods?

Question: Best reliable, quiet hard drive
Choices: Samsung, Western Digital, Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate

A few people have told me Seagate are very reliable. Just thought I'd get the opinion of a few more people first though :)

Thanks,
Craig.
 
I'm looking for a 250 drive as well. as long as it doesn't have a high pitch whine when it's powered on i'm not too worried about access noise. Reliability isn't much of a concern as any hard disk can fail. Speed is important though, needs to be quick :)

Currently thinking of hitachi
 
Zap said:
I'm looking for a 250 drive as well. as long as it doesn't have a high pitch whine when it's powered on i'm not too worried about access noise. Reliability isn't much of a concern as any hard disk can fail. Speed is important though, needs to be quick :)

Currently thinking of hitachi
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Seagate 7200.10 with 16mb cache, it wont let you down and the speed is very close to a WD raptor
 
Massive Attack said:
Seagate 7200.10 with 16mb cache, it wont let you down and the speed is very close to a WD raptor
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I'l lsecond that! i have 2x 250 Seagates (8mb) and love em to bits cant hear them at all (not over my maxtor 20GB Primary drive)
 
From my personal experience:

Western Digital: Very fast but loud (had 3 of them), not the coolest running drives either. Speed 9/10, Sound 1/10

Seagate: Fast and quietish, keep an eye on those temps though (had 2 of them), Speed 9/10, Sound 3/10

Maxtor: May not be as fast as the above two but still no real noticeable difference and quiet, run very cool also (i have 2 of them, ATA and SATA), Speed 8/10, Sound 7/10

Samsung: Not the fastest but the quietest of all. Run cool also. I had one which went kapoot 2 weeks ago after doing it job for nearly 2yrs. I miss it, Speed 7/10, Sound 9/10

I have my maxtors in silentmaxx enclosures and they are currently running at 31*C (ATA) and 36*C (SATA). i dont have a fan blowing over them either. I can only really hear them slightly when seeking but i have to concentrate.
 
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Hmmm it seems that hard drive noise is very hit and miss on a lot of drives.

My Dads PC has a WD 250GB and I can hardly hear it reading on boot up, I definitely can't hear it's spinning noise either... yet you say they're pretty noisy??

Also, I have heard a lot of good things about Seagates, a lot of people have said they're very reliable and quiet.

I think I still want to get the Seagate 500GB 7200.10 drive, people have said they're quiet and almost match up to the raptors.

Oh, and, will I see the 7200.10 drive speed increase running it on SATA150?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
Craig321 said:
Hmmm it seems that hard drive noise is very hit and miss on a lot of drives.

My Dads PC has a WD 250GB and I can hardly hear it reading on boot up, I definitely can't hear it's spinning noise either... yet you say they're pretty noisy??

Also, I have heard a lot of good things about Seagates, a lot of people have said they're very reliable and quiet.

I think I still want to get the Seagate 500GB 7200.10 drive, people have said they're quiet and almost match up to the raptors.

Oh, and, will I see the 7200.10 drive speed increase running it on SATA150?

Thanks,
Craig.
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no it will be slower runing it on sata150 than 300 for obvios reasons, i get about 0.5ms access increase and about 4mb/s increase running on sata 2, my drive is so good that ive order another one :D
 
Quiet: Samsung
Fast&reliable: Seagate


Why do people actually want a silent spin?? its a constant sound wich u get used to while the ticking (seeking sound) is reather very annoying (for me anyhow), ive never for the last 10 years (having owned all brands of hdd's), taken notice on how''loud'' a spin is all i notice is the damn ticking on some hdd's when seeking, but to constant sounds of the same speed/height/loudness, i always get used to em, my point is i would like to know if other people dont or sometimeng, and how you people deal with annoying seek sounds?

My 2 baracudda's and my maxtor wich i have atm have quite loud ticking sound (compared to completly silen wd and hitachi seek), however i never really checked for psin sound, i guess its ore silent as my fans together...
 
Massive Attack said:
no it will be slower runing it on sata150 than 300 for obvios reasons, i get about 0.5ms access increase and about 4mb/s increase running on sata 2, my drive is so good that ive order another one :D
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Oh I thought there was a speed increase on the drive on SATA150 and SATA300 (obviously it'll go even faster on SATA300).

snowdog said:
Quiet: Samsung
Fast&reliable: Seagate


Why do people actually want a silent spin?? its a constant sound wich u get used to while the ticking (seeking sound) is reather very annoying (for me anyhow), ive never for the last 10 years (having owned all brands of hdd's), taken notice on how''loud'' a spin is all i notice is the damn ticking on some hdd's when seeking, but to constant sounds of the same speed/height/loudness, i always get used to em, my point is i would like to know if other people dont or sometimeng, and how you people deal with annoying seek sounds?

My 2 baracudda's and my maxtor wich i have atm have quite loud ticking sound (compared to completly silen wd and hitachi seek), however i never really checked for psin sound, i guess its ore silent as my fans together...
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Seek noise doesn't bother me nearly as much as a high pitched spinning noise. But no hard drive spin is that loud these days, is it?
 
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