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I see the komplett have the 200GB version at £62 in their weekly deals. I was going to get a Samsung Spinpoint 160GB at pretty much the same price.
I know the samsung is a very quiet but still fairly fast drive, thats why i chose that.
But, i know the Maxtor is much faster and has an extra 40GB for about a quid.
So the question is, how much louder are the maxtors than the samsungs?
Thanks
Ben
just realised that the one at komplett is an 8mb cache version, thought it was a 16
Well if its any remote help the Maxtor 120gb with 8mb cache i have is noisy enough to alert me when im not listening to music :(
If my bed were just a little closer it'd make a fairly good alarm clock actually, espeically when checking for a full virus scan... really does make a right ol' commotion :(
Gonna drive you crazy, I've had to get rid of 2 Maxtor drives already, such a shame cause they kinda bulletproof, drop them a few time, still run fine and pretty fast. Never try things like vibration dampers though.
Got a DiamondMax 10 16megger here now beside me almost by my head in my mums new machine and I can't hear any noise! Specially can't hear it when it goes nr my Raptor RAID :p
Raptop raid, bet you can't hear much over that though! lol
Thing i'll stick with the samsung
Well if the Raptor RAID is a little too noisey then just hide it behind the uber-decibels of an nV SLI system :)
Apparently the 10's are much improved over the 9's in terms of noise, but ive not had my hands on a 10 yet to comment on if its the truth or not...
Hmmm...i have a 9 with 2mb cache and it wakes the neighbours when searching hard :shocked2:
i actually think my dm 10 120gb is slightly louder than my dm 9 120gb ,their silent untill they start doing anything tho :heckle:Quote:
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lol
got two maxtor drives here, the older 2mb cache 80gig is nearly silent but the newer 8mb 120gig is pretty damn loud when loading games, etc...
isnt there a proggie that sumhow silences hdd's?? im sure my mate said its wat he used for his drive in his shuttle...
They'll never be completely silent due to the nature of what a HDD does.... If it bothers you stick it in an enclosure....
or get a quiet one to start with!?
You can get a program to lower the rpm and therefore noise output
my 200 gig seagates are silent - until they do something; then they sound like the apc in Aliens when ripley blows the trans-axle. ( i just watched that last night :))
I got some elastic ribbon from john lewis and made a cradle in a spare 5 inch bay. No vibration transferred to case = no noise whatsoever. Can't hear it at all now. Total cost - £1.14
hope this helps....
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I got a 200GB Diamondmax 10 a couple of days ago; I set it up to make a copy of m existing 30GB drive so it could be my new boot disk, and it was pretty much absolutely silent as far as I could tell, even with my ear right next to it I couldn't hear it over my case fans. Possibly in a case it might transfer a bit of vibration, but in that case just suspend it from a 5 1/4 bay like fulnnelhead says.
Rich :¬)
I have one and it is a little noisier than my old barracuda but nothing too bad.
I just tested my new one and I can't say I could hear it at all from my normal position.
And that would be, terminal service from work, 50 miles away?
Used one when making my sister's shuttle system and I don't find it that bad, noise-wise.
aren't barracuda the quietest?
Haha. Next to me. I didn't stick my ear on the drive. And I've got a fairly quiet PC - no fast revolution fans.Quote:
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yep, spin and seek, well the seek goes to Samsung... :p