very impressed with the 7200.10's

Well according to the Anandtech review here.....
If you are looking for a very quiet and thermally advantaged high capacity drive then the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS should be on your short list. The drive also offered very good game play performance and was able to make a strong showing in the general business application benchmarks. If you are looking for a drive that offers slightly better overall performance and excels in most desktop and multimedia applications while offering competitive acoustics then the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB drive should be at the top of your list.
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I love it when they sit on the post like that (here mate lets do an 'independant' review, take a bung from each manufacturer and call them even)

Genius !

This is why im soo poor... :mad:
 
hello all

can someone please confirm if these are quiet please?

i,m hearing that some are and some arent :(

which one is which i already had a situation like that with the samsung's P120

thanks
 
My 250gb one can't be heard unless I get a large file transfer running and stick my ear against the case! It's lovely and quiet, the fans in the system drown it out tbh. I guess those little rubber grommet thingys really do work. :)
 
Azibs said:
Got my 7200.10 installed yesterday. Seems pretty quiet to me and a lot quicker than the old maxtor 80gig drive i had. Very impressed with it so far.
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Did you get this from OC? What does the spindle look like? Does it has a bar code?
 
One seagate "Quick Bench" tested...

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache

These seagates are not noisy, i tested this by sending a 4GB flim to the drive and the noise from my system with the side panel off never changed.

The idle seagate in room temperature was 43ºC with no fan.

With a 16inch fan blowing towards the pc (for ten minutes) the idle seagate temp came down to 34ºC

Drive 1
Date Code : 07026
Firmware : 3.AAD
Site Code : AMK
Product of Singapore

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Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache
 
hey guys

got my 250gig 7200.10 today.

Is it SATA-II ready yeah? Just i remember some hard drives need software or something to unlock it from SATA-I

Well impressed with it though, very quiet and very quick compared to my old Maxtor
 
Steedie said:
which jumper is this sorry? if you could post a photo that would be great
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I'd get one but there's only one jumper on the drive. Next to the SATA data connector are 4 pins, 2 of which have the jumper on by default - you can't miss it.
 
ah yeah i see it, at the moment the two furthest from the sata connector have the jumper on, do i just set it to the other two? or remove it all together

EDIT - just removed it, and take it that it's working as it booted up properly, cheers guys
 
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