recommend quiet hard drive for media center
Can anyone recommend a quiet harddrive for a media center, around the 500Gig mark.
A friend is asking me and I'm out of touch on drives at the moment.
Last I looked into 3 or 4 years ago Samsungs were the ones to go for, what's
the situation now?
He's currently got a seagate 7200.6 which has got a really annoying seek noise.
cheers!
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Samsungs are quiet but, I think the WD green powers are pretty good too.
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yeh silent pc review rated the wd green caviar
insert link here: www.google.co.uk ;) sorry lazy n that
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Id go for a Samsung, excellent performance and damn quiet.
Hawker
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Sputnik
Samsungs are quiet but, I think the WD green powers are pretty good too.
Another vote for WD Green Power... I use the 500GB in my media centre, and it's quiet but still quite fast.
I believe WD also make some targeted at AV applications which are also allegedly quiet. Check out their website :)
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Spinpoints are widely regarded as the quietest
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Got a few Samsungs kickin about here. They are virtually silent. My fans on low are louder (which is something I should really look).
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Blitzen
Spinpoints are widely regarded as the quietest
Spinpoints knee in front of WD Greenpower drives.
4 of those WD Greenpower drives is more quiet than one Spinpoint drive I have.
Then 5 of those drives together is FAR less quiet than any of my Seagate drives.
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Try the green powers.
I've replaced all of the drives in my WHS with them
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arthurleung
Spinpoints knee in front of WD Greenpower drives.
4 of those WD Greenpower drives is more quiet than one Spinpoint drive I have.
Then 5 of those drives together is FAR less quiet than any of my Seagate drives.
It opinion.
I had 2 WD's in RAID 0 before i ran my 2 Spinpoints in RAID 0 and the Samsungs are noticeably quieter
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Seeing as no one has recommended a Seagate yet I'll throw this one into the mix
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
It has a single 500GB platter so it is slim, quiet, cool and quick according to most of the reviews on Newegg. Also see Hexus reader review
Samsung also do a 500GB single platter that runs at 5400rpm which should also be slim and quiet. Can't find the performance figures I was looking at atm. There was obviously some performance hit but the increased data density went some way to compensate.
500GB Samsung SpinPoint EcoGreen F2
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Seagate? No way. Mine are noisy as heck!
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Metasoda
Thanks everyone!
So what have you decided to get ?
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samsung has a tool you can use to make their drives run quieter at the cost of speed..
it's a toss up between that and the wd green drives
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I'd recommend the Samsung if you want to get a quiet one.