heh, im not going for the all out speed of a single drive.... its mainly for the RAID usage
im not sure whether to go seagate or maxtor though..... i currently have an ol 30.7GB maxtor and it whines in an obsurdley high pitch :/
This was why i was thinking about taking the seagate option. After looking at the new drives it seems that this whine might not be present anymore... Hence im stuck on chioce again
I have the Maxtor 9 80gig 8meg 7200rpm drive, and its quieter than my 40gig Seagate
Its got fluid bearings so is practically silent.
Go with the Maxtor - the 8meg cache versions also have a 5yr warranty on them
Originally Posted by Saracen
Sold.... just got to wait for next weeks pay packet so I can brush 2 drives off the collarOriginally posted by Agent
I have the Maxtor 9 80gig 8meg 7200rpm drive, and its quieter than my 40gig Seagate
Its got fluid bearings so is practically silent.
Go with the Maxtor - the 8meg cache versions also have a 5yr warranty on them
Not quite... I actually know someone (in another forum) who uses up the entire alphabet!!Originally posted by tfboy
Hehe, I think I'm the partition king...
Don't ask why... I think he has around 8 to 10 physical drives, mixture of SCSI and IDE devices and he just partition them like mad...
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gah, i dont see the point in haveing so many partitions
OK, from my testing, I've found the raptor to be, honestly, nothing but a waste of money. If you have home server set up, it can be fater when accessing lots of little bits of data, its what teh drive does best. But the firmware is designed for that, and i find other drives better with file transfer, of the 700MB variety.
Fastest drive i've used so far is the 160GB sata maxtor. 120GB maxtor pata , 180GXP 120GB IBM are of similar speeds. THough size of one type of drive shouldn't theoretically make a difference, as only one head can read/write at a time, the sizes do affect performance. Also different on sata/pata. My 120GB maxtor sata was slower than that 160GB, not much, but it was a drop in performance.
80GIG pata maxtor was the slowest of the lot.
Personally, I find best way to silence any hard drive is put them in the right computer case. Good mounting kills vibration and sound levels, you CAN'T beat the antec sonata. Grommeted, side mounted drive bays that slide in and out. GOt raptors, 180gxp's, maxtors seagates and can't hear the diff between that AT ALL.
Sata drives don't offer any performance increase right now, as sata or pata drives will score up i nsisoft38k levels now.
I'd actually have a guess and say the newer Hitachi will be the fastest drive available, out and available around in the next day or two from dabs.com the 180GXP is scoring in teh 36-37,.5K sisoft area. THats with a 60GB platter density, compared to maxtors 80gig, the new Hitachi drive is a 80GB platter version.
IBM/Hitachi's have been consistantly the best drives for raid performance for a while, maxtor are next best. Seagate are AWFUL in raid.
If you do get a seagate, grab the 7200.7, not eht barracuda 5, they will scoore about 8k apart in sisoft, the reason its really quite is its slow, they also run hot, very hot, due to the big metal plate they stick over the PCB on the barra 5, for protection and noise killing. I wouldn't trust one as everyone i know with one has them running overall hot.
FOr raid, i'd get 2xhitachi new drives, or 2xmaxtor pata 120GB drives. OR Maxtor sata's, though i'd try to get 2x160GB versions if you can.
Hmm, as it stands now, ONLY maxtor dm9+ 120GB AND 8MB cache and higher drives have a 3 year warranty, all other fireballs, quatums, dm8+ and 9+ d740x's and everything else has a 1year warranty only, Retail hard drives all carry 2 year warranties, as do maxtor external drives.
Only really viable 5 year warranty drive is the Raptor, hence the price.
The sorage is far more important to me than speed with small files... as for the 5 year warranty, im not sure 40gig drives would last me that long! might be lucky to get 3 or 4 games plus windows installed in one of those in years to come
From the looks of things..... can you use a traditional molex power cable to run the Maxtor SATA drives?
This obviously cutting out on having to waste money on a silly converter
Not sure, acidrainy.Originally posted by acidrainy
From the looks of things..... can you use a traditional molex power cable to run the Maxtor SATA drives?
It must be in the datasheet on their website. Too lazy to go look for it now though
Its ok, i found it in a review of the 160gig ver. You can get away with the good ol' 4pin molexOriginally posted by tfboy
Not sure, acidrainy.
It must be in the datasheet on their website. Too lazy to go look for it now though
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