Looking at Sata 2 and a friend of mine said that the Samsung's Spinpoint P120's are good drives.
I'm looking at 2x250gb.
What do you think ???
Looking at Sata 2 and a friend of mine said that the Samsung's Spinpoint P120's are good drives.
I'm looking at 2x250gb.
What do you think ???
There not the fastest drives by a long way, but they are very quiet. I would recommend them.
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Correct apart from the working partOriginally Posted by XTR
As long as you go for one of the known brands (Maxtor, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi etc) you'll be happy.
There are differences, but unless you are going for absolute computing perfection, I'd just choose whichever you like the look of!
I tend to go for Maxtors or Seagates. I've used a Samsung in a build for someone else, and it seemed fine.
Cheers guys for the info
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Get a samsung or hitachi if you want silent.
I got 2 maxtor + 2 seagates together and they will die without active cooling (even with active cooling they're in 40'C range, but my 4 hitachis together stayed cold (around 43'C) without a fan blowing air onto them.
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I had a pair of Western Digital drives of around that size 6 months back, and they drove me crazy from the annoying noises that they made. Now have 2 Hitachi 250gig drives, and they are so much better and apart from a noisy spin-up they are very quite during typical use.
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Yep my hitachis are great, slight noise during spin-up but then literally silent.
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Hitachi is the way to go, man that thing is fast. And any1 succeeded in turning the T7K250 SATA II mode one ? I tried many times but somehow it's just switch back to 150. The chipset is Sli so obviously support SATA II, do i have to enable SATA Spread Spectrum ?
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