Reliable, quiet, fast

Craig321 · 16 Nov 2006 at 21:28

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.

Craig321 · 17 Nov 2006 at 16:26

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.

Craig321 · 20 Nov 2006 at 15:39

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 · 21 Nov 2006 at 15:52

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

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...

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?