Seagate 7200.10's are noisiest drives EVER!

Ice Tea said:
That looks like a printer label that been added to the antistatic bag after manufacture wonder why the computer shop would do that ?

I was told that the label for the noisy Thailand drives where on the spindle next to the glue.
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It definately has made in Thailand printed even on the drive itself. I havent got round to installing it yet like.

This thrown a spanner in the works?
 
I've read that the drives with the label on the spindle are the quiet ones (the colour of the glue used is irrelevant). I see that GraemeUK's drive has this label and would be interested if the drive is indeed quiet ?

I could be wrong though :D
 
order one of these and mine had green glue with no label on the spindle. Its made in Thailand and is really noisy in my Synology NAS drive when its accessing data or writing to it. :(
 
I just properly checked and I'd like to confirm that my two Seagate 320GB disks have white/clear glue, no sticker in the spindle, and are made in China. They're not the faulty noisy type, so I dunno if this is helpful to anybody but there you go.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
I just properly checked and I'd like to confirm that my two Seagate 320GB disks have white/clear glue, no sticker in the spindle, and are made in China. They're not the faulty noisy type, so I dunno if this is helpful to anybody but there you go.
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Are the spindle's recessed (ie. like the noisy one in the pic from the the link I posted) ?
 
I find this thread hypocritical why on earth are you supporting a manufacturer
that does'nt care about selling you a noisey hdd i'd boycott at all costs and take
the speed drop everytime to a guaranteed low noise level hd like the spinpoint.
 
smids said:
The fact that it is not silent does not mean it is not the best 7200rpm hard drive out there. It makes it a loud drive, which in itself is subjective. I won't comment further on this anyway.
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Excuse me but u are sounding very much like a fanboy. Drives are reviewed on more than one characteristic, in a normal review, and one of them is always noise. So if its unacceptably noisy then, it will score low in that catagory but if lots of users say is noisy to the point they wont use it then the rest of the score doesnt matter.

You definately are a fanboy there are too many posters of forums who just wont listen to reason, and in this context it makes u a fanboy which u like to deny.

No I dont have one of these drives but I might be making a new purchase of a large drive and my #1 criterea is noise. I put up with a noisy 80Gb Maxtor for a couple of years and definately dont want to risk an even noisier drive. In fact I bought a 2nd hand Maxtor 250Gb and that has been fine running in my case with its standard rubber grommits.
 
mine makes the most annoying noise that i dont care if its faster than my old drives(apparently, i still dont beleive it though, not v impressed.)
That now its being demoted to storage drive, all these reviews about saying its fast etc and it should be great for a main drive, well bugger that, id rather have it as a storage drive so i get the least amount of tedious hard-disk noises as possible.
 
hello i only just remembered my password so couldnt reply sooner. Of the 2 drives i bought 1 was the green type and 1 the pink. Having fitted them both they worked fine but the green 1 made a considerable amount of noise over the other. Im not talking about just a louder rpm either it almost sounded like a whining metal sound (dont know how to describe it). It also had a smart error reported within minutes.

It could just have been a faulty HDD and the manufacter maybe had no bearing who knows. Im getting the replacement on Monday and 'hopefully' it wont be another dud or noisey
 
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