very impressed with the 7200.10's

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Recently got a nice 250gb 7200.10 for my new rig, and I must say I'm extremely impressed with it. After I screwed it in with the rubber grommets that came with my case I can barely hear it, and it seems to be so fast as well! I came from an old, slow, 40gb IDE drive, so a nice zippy SATA one would probably have made an impression on me anyway, but wow! Installations go much more smoothly, and things like quicksaves in Oblivion now operate so seamlessly that I wouldn't notice if it wasn't for the text notification. Compared to my old drive, where the game would stutter for 2-3 seconds when I hit quicksave it's lovely. Really smoothed out a lot of hiccups and makes the computer feel really slick.

It might sound a bit odd, but out of all my new bits in my rig, I think I like the hard disk best! Having so much more space to play with is brilliant but I really love the speed of it as well. :) Highly recommended!
 
Shakey_Jake33 said:
Was tying to choose between these and the WD's, actually.
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The other great thing about these Seagate drives is the 5-year warranty. That combined with the perpendiular bit recording technology means I'd go for a 7200.10 any day!
 
I was going to get another 250GB Hitachi Deskstar for my rig as I am starting to run out of room [curse my pr0...err..music collection!].

Now I am tempted to get one of the new 7200.10s. Will mean arsing about cloning the drives but judging from the high praise I suspect it will be worth the hassle.

SiriusB
 
fonzee said:
thats just confused me now... so basically perpendicular is about getting the talkin scrabble pieces in my HD to stand up by playing a cheesy 80s tunes to create more space?? ;)
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Precisely!

Anyone who thinks HDDs use magnetoresistive technology are just crazy.

SiriusB
 
Hi,

I take it that these drives have AAM disabled?

I know seagate no longer support AAM on their drives but maybe they left the AAM on to quiet?

I will be checking this when my seagate drives arrive, i hope the tools i have so far work on these drives as i can control the options for my samsung and WD drives.
 
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So these are better than the current WD's then? Only I had a 2.5 year old Seagate die on me today. It was in RAID 0 array though. Now looking for a sinlge good drive. I've got a WD 60GB disk in an old rig and its been running great for 4.5 years, what a great drive it is. I'm looking for a new 250GB disk to replace my dead seagate, I wont be running RAID anymore. Its either the WD 250 GB or the Seagate 250GB I'll prob go for.. although I'm drawing more towards the WD purely because of good reliabily with that old 60GB drive.
 
XtAsY said:
So these are better than the current WD's then? Only I had a 2.5 year old Seagate die on me today. It was in RAID 0 array though. Now looking for a sinlge good drive. I've got a WD 60GB disk in an old rig and its been running great for 4.5 years, what a great drive it is. I'm looking for a new 250GB disk to replace my dead seagate, I wont be running RAID anymore. Its either the WD 250 GB or the Seagate 250GB I'll prob go for.. although I'm drawing more towards the WD purely because of good reliabily with that old 60GB drive.
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You got unlucky - Seagate's are THE most reliable drives. Of course, there is no guarantee something won't fail but by buying a Seagate, you greatly reduce the chance of this occuring. Not to mention perpendicular technology of the Seagate.
 
Go for the Seagate! They all come with a 5 year warranty and in my own experience are rock solid. Have one thats pushing 4 years old with near 24/7 abuse for the last 2 years. Not a single bad sector!

SiriusB
 
I'll be setting my two 7200.10's 320GB drives up this weekend and i'll report back with noise results, btw mine have the spindle bottom and is not the empty looking spindle.
 
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