Re: Samsung spinpoint or Western Digital HDD?
Well both of the mentioned HDD's are the same price with today only. LOL.
Hmmmm. After the mentioning of the "newer" AAKS's being louder, I think I will opt for a samsung t166 drive.....Im pretty sure :angst:
But can anyone confirm the AAKS's are louder? As my current one is pretty much inaudible
And it will be used for storage and not OS/app's.
Re: Samsung spinpoint or Western Digital HDD?
For storage, you are not likely going to notice the difference - I'd give the T166 a chance. Even last year, I was mostly preferring WD/Hitachi because they were the quickest. But after snapping two T166 for under 100 (for both), i find that it does what it was bought for well (storage). Frankly speaking, you probably wouldn't notice the difference even for OS/App use unless you are like to time how quickly it takes to (un)compress/encode something. Having said that, I do have my eye on the 320GB platter AAKS for my next system drive.
Re: Samsung spinpoint or Western Digital HDD?
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Well both of the mentioned HDD's are the same price with today only. LOL.
Hmmmm. After the mentioning of the "newer" AAKS's being louder, I think I will opt for a samsung t166 drive.....Im pretty sure :angst:
But can anyone confirm the AAKS's are louder? As my current one is pretty much inaudible
And it will be used for storage and not OS/app's.
Don't know what classifies as lnewer (mine's ~3 month old), but mine it completely and utterly silent. I don't mean quiet, I mean silent. Lian-Li A70B with rubber HDD mounts and 7x Noctua 1200s at 7v for reference.
About to smash that near silence with a couple of Raptors mind. :D
Re: Samsung spinpoint or Western Digital HDD?
I can find out the specific submodels on the AAKS I have if that would help everyone? My first was bought in September 07, second in Jan 08.
Re: Samsung spinpoint or Western Digital HDD?
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache
I have had 9 of these first bought around May 07, nice drives, but the last couple
Ebuyer OCT 2007/Feb 08 have had severe resonating, the Feb drive sitting on desk, on rubber still resonates badly, not sure if this is grounds for rma, but it sure is a pain, also I have had 2 previous(not wd) that had the same sound problem, they both developed bad sectors over a period of time