Seagate 7200.10's are noisiest drives EVER!

Massive Attack · 28 Nov 2006 at 13:49

Vanilla said:
Bought two of these yesterday in Hong Kong so obviously from the China factory!

Both have the pink glue and so far are very quiet.

Damn you, all of mine are grren the super silent ones are the pink ones

33L · 28 Nov 2006 at 17:31

Massive Attack said:
Damn you, all of mine are grren the super silent ones are the pink ones

TBH i have no ideal what mine are!!! there are in th lower chamber of my p180 and i cant be arsed to pull them out just to look at the colour of glue - mine are quiet - i will still recomend them!

gizmo1990 · 28 Nov 2006 at 18:16

divosuk said:
Seagate is currently making the transistion from metal bearing Motors to fluid dynamic bearing motors (or FDBs) in its desktop lines (although they have been used in medalist drives for a few years now) - This is the reason there are two different type of Spindle motors on the drive pics.

Don't want to hijack the thread but aren't Samsungs drives fluid dynamic motors already?

matt631 · 28 Nov 2006 at 18:24

do we know weather this is spread to other sizes of drives??? im thinking about getting a 500GB

Massive Attack · 28 Nov 2006 at 19:52

matt631 said:
do we know weather this is spread to other sizes of drives??? im thinking about getting a 500GB

sure is matey

matt631 · 28 Nov 2006 at 20:03

what would people recommend in its place Speed / size are the key factors bigger the better with a nice fast speed but not at the cost of constant humming

Gundam God · 29 Nov 2006 at 17:59

Just installed my 320gb, one of the 'pink' ones, and all seems to be ok. The disk access noise is more noticeable than my maxtors but even then its lost in the sea of fans.

[Edit] woops I think I left the jumper on limiting it to only 1.5gbps, may have to correct that later.

Archibald0 · 29 Nov 2006 at 21:55

oh crap, i just went and bout the 320gb
why did i have to see this thread after i had clicked buy

Heres hoping i get a nice quiet one

El Jimben · 29 Nov 2006 at 22:27

Gundam God said:
The disk access noise is more noticeable than my maxtors but even then its lost in the sea of fans.

Exactly. I don't imagine most people sit that close to their cases anyway so most of the noise is drowned out by other fans as you say. They're decent hard drives whatever.

pcknight · 29 Nov 2006 at 22:47

Samsung are the quietest drives by far.

mrk · 30 Nov 2006 at 01:44

Chong Warrior said:
Bought one of these the other day, 320gb flavour, as everyone seems to be raving about them so seemed a good choice.... wrong!! They're so damn noisey

Took the hard-drive back today and got it replaced. The new one is exactly the same

I've never really noticed my hard drives before but this just shouts for attention. It makes a constant low pitched kind of buzzing sound all the time, even in the BIOS. Soon as it's powered up it does it and it's a very irritating sound. Almost sounds like it's making my whole case vibrate.

My case is an Antec Sonata and the drives are on rubber grommets. I wouldn't like to hear how loud they'd be in a normal case !

Was going to post this yesterday but thought I'd wait and see what the replacement was like first incase it was just a one off. So warning to anyone whose thinking of buying one of these. I'd look elsewhere if I was you if you have a quiet PC.

What firmware/revision is yours? Mine is dead silent, it's firmware v3.42
Revision 3.AAE - it's also very very fast

No complaints about it at all!

I had a 200GB maxtor sata before the seagate 320 and it too was dead silent, a bit loud during seeking but the seagate is quieter. I also have a 7200.7 as the windows drive and that too is silent. my front fascia on the case is covered in grilled mesh so the sound would be audible if it whined.

I bought mine instore at a local pc store (like ocuk, but not ocuk

) for £69, they seem to be selling them quite nicely too. I got a good one

sajtion · 30 Nov 2006 at 05:01

samsung are the quietest hard drives. you should always go for samsung

martin9887 · 30 Nov 2006 at 08:51

Is there a lot of speed difference between the samsungs and seagate 7200.10? Thanks.

As I was going for 7200.10 but after hearing all the probs I kinda dont want to anymore, Im using samsungs atm and there very quiet, I get noise from them but its the stupid mouting in the TT shark causing that lol.

Xeon · 30 Nov 2006 at 10:13

martin9887 said:
Is there a lot of speed difference between the samsungs and seagate 7200.10? Thanks.

Seagate's 7200.10 are the fastest and are normally quiet, u will hear a slight seeking niose on occasions but usually the cpu and graphics fans are much louder.
Samsungs are very quiet but not as fast.

Chongwarrior's noisy drives are nearly a month old now and were probably from a faulty batch - Seagate's latest shipped product seems to be ok.

33L · 30 Nov 2006 at 12:35

Archibald0 said:
oh crap, i just went and bout the 320gb
why did i have to see this thread after i had clicked buy
Heres hoping i get a nice quiet one

Let us know what you get!

Archibald0 · 30 Nov 2006 at 13:26

will do, i should get it tomoro

pcknight · 30 Nov 2006 at 14:51

You won't notice a speed difference between the Samsung and the Seagate but you will notice the noise difference.

photoshop · 30 Nov 2006 at 16:13

Samsung the way. To be honest the speed difference will bearly be noticable but the noise will certainly be noticable!

Im with samsung even though i use to have 3x seagates once upon a time. Now im with maxtor and samsung!

Xeon · 30 Nov 2006 at 18:07

If u want to decide between Seagate and Samsung check out this link...

http://pda.hardware.info/en-US/articles/am9nbGpoZA/Samsung_SpinPoint_T133_400_GB/

Conclusion

When you are looking for a quiet hard disk that offers good writing speeds look no further than the amsung Spinpoint T133 HD401LJ. However as we have tested the access time is on the slow side, which can hamper performance in certain areas, as shown in the virus scan test we ran in PCMArk 05.

There are other good drives like Western Digital that may also be worth considering.

El Jimben · 1 Dec 2006 at 12:16

"The disk reaches an average throughput of 60.1 MB/sec, which means only the Seagate 7200.10 750 GB and the Raptor disks are faster. The access time of the Samsung disk is fairly high, we got a score of 14.2 ms, almost at the bottom of the field"