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Fire_fly

Fire_fly

Fire_fly

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My 256Gb M4 is getting rather full so I'm looking for a new storage drive.

I'm considering one of these 3, but I have a few questions.

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1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EARX) HDD £76.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EZRX) HDD £73.99
Total : £235.78 (includes shipping : £9.00).



1) Am I going to notice a difference in performance between the 7200RPM Seagate and the 5900RPM WD drives? I plan on putting Documents, Music, a few films, and some games on them.

2) How noisy are they? I don't mind a bit of noise when they are being accessed but I don't want them sitting there clicking all them when I'm just on the desktop.

3) How easy are they to install and set up? I have never run a multi hard drive setup before so any useful links for how to get it all set up world be appreciated.
 
seagates are notoriously noisy,i can't comment on the newer seagates though maybe someone else can

I doubt you'd notice any speed difference between 5900/7200rpm,they are easy just plug it in and set the ssd/os as first boot device so it wont try to boot into the storage hdd and that's it
 
Before the M4 I had a 500GB Seagate and it was rather noisy, after I got some quite case fans, but that drive was from back in 08.
 
I have just been doing a bit of reading around.

Some people suggest that the 5900RPM drives are too slow for playing games off of while other say that they will be ok. Most of the games that end up on it will be RTSs Supreme Commander, A of E III, Star craft II, and possibly some other games such as WoW and maybe some older FPSs.
 
I play mine off a Samsung f4 2tb just fine,its a 5600 or 5900rpm cant remember,trust me its plenty fast enough

I think it scored 120read/130write on atto,not bad for an older 2tb drive,newer ones will be slightly faster around 140/150mb read/write

I have my os on a tiny 60gb force gt
 
The drive arrived yesterday and I have just got around to installing it. However I have run into some problems.

When I was using disk manager to format the drive it crashed (Not Responding), I left it for 10 mins but nothing changed, so I then force closed it. When I went to retry Disk Manger just shows a blank screen. When I tried to restart the computer it hung on the Windows flag on start up (Windows 7). After disconnecting the drive everything booted fine.

If I go into windows and then plug in the drive it detects it, I get a pop up showing its there and it is shown in Device Manager and Intel Rapid store, but nothing shows up in explorer and Disk Manger just shows a blank screen (Does not even pick up the C drive).

Anyone got any suggestions?

Edit: I have just downloaded WD diagnostic tool and have run a quick scan. It came back as a Fail due to too many bad sectors.

I'm guessing that it is a case of DOA?
 
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yh seemslike it,thats not a good start seeing I recommended them:eek:

I wish Samsung still made hdd's as they were fantastic

you could go for another wd and put it down to badluck or try and change it to a Seagate

something clearly broke when you tried to format it,not your fault just a faulty drive
 
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