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- Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:10 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GTX 1050 Ti review compilation thread
- Replies: 54
- Views: 66682
Re: GTX 1050 Ti review compilation thread
Hi everybody, So what about the Asus GeForce 1050 Ti Expedition ? http://img1.lesnumeriques.com/produits/150/35879/asus-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-explorer_8621e0e7d8903efd_450x400.jpg It looks very quiet in this review (in french but with lots of self-explanatory charts), in both 2D and 3D : http://www.le...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Agreed. Feel free to split this topic in two, phpBB allows that quite easily.
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:04 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Long story short : I've already tried that and I'm not satisfied anymore. ;) I have already a home-made NAS (Debian-based, CLI only) since 2008 or so, where my three 1TB drives are mounted (in RAID 5, the fourth RAID 5 drive being a 1.5TB). The NAS is in another room, so yes, it doesn't bother me wi...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 7:29 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Thanks :) I agree with you, so maybe I should tell you more about my plans : I always do backups. Of everything. That's like computer 101, lol. My two new 3TB drives will of course by backuped, I have already older drives for that purpose (one 2TB drive, two 1.5TB drives, and three 1TB drives, so 8T...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Small update. I guess there is a trade-off to be made here for a 24/7 desktop drive : - WD Green/Blue : head parking = 8 sec / TLER = 30 sec - WD Red : head parking = 5 min / TLER = 7 sec (quite mandatory for RAID environments) 8 sec is nonsense for 24/7 use : the LCC will go up like crazy and soon ...
- Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:06 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
I am currently leaning towards a Thermaltake Core V21 case (not exactly a silence-oriented case) : http://www.thermaltake.com/db/products/case/coreV21/main.jpg Not a lot of space inside, and not a lot of space for drives either, just two 3.5" slots (and three 2.5" slots on the other side) : http://w...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 3:17 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
I am quite pissed off that I need to revert to HD enclosures just because there's not a single "silent" 3TB HD drive on the planet right now.
Especially when there used to be a couple years ago, with the WD Red Nasware 1.0 (which I suppose is impossible to find today). That pisses me off even more.
Especially when there used to be a couple years ago, with the WD Red Nasware 1.0 (which I suppose is impossible to find today). That pisses me off even more.
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:56 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Oh, right, Blue is the new Green ! :mrgreen: Happened a year ago or so. Thanks WD for the headache ! :D The only downside I see with the Blue is that they are not supposed to be up 24/7. Regardless of that, I'd really like to compare the noise of the new 3TB Blue (5K rpm of course) to the noise of t...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 3:42 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Thanks for your interesting reply in this topic :) So, long question short : how should we do if we're looking for silent 3TB hard disks for a PC that will run 24/7, at about 1m-1m50 from my ears ? What would be best for that particular use ? I know that's unusual, but that's the way my PC runs. Tha...
- Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:40 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
Are you sure that Toshiba and Seagate won't be louder ? :roll: Take a look at this : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/888-15/nuisances-sonores.html It's in french, but just look at the graph. Here's the juicy part : Seeking noise : - WD Red 3TB Nasware 1.0 : 23.8 dB - WD Red 3TB Nasware 2.0 : 24.9 dB...
- Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:19 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 83954
Re: WD Green vs. WD Red for quietness?
And who is "they" ? Commenting without proof is meaningless. We need tests, we need serious results, not just "they say".
You wouldn't happen to be working for WD's competition, would you ?
You wouldn't happen to be working for WD's competition, would you ?
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:16 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
It's quite simple : they do reduce the drive's recovery time, so that the drive can fit in a RAID array. For normal drives, when there's a R/W error, the drive can enter a "deep recovery cycle" that can take up to 2 min. During that time, the drive becomes unresponsive. Most RAID arrays do not toler...
- Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:34 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:08 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
As requested by lm, here's the way we have used to test our drives with Debian Debian (GNU/Linux) isn't Unix, and a read/write test does not check all areas of the disk. The master cylinder, for instance, is not checked by that test. Yes, but that was not the purpose of our test. I was simply answe...
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:41 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
As requested by lm, here's the way we have used to test our drives with Debian (after the RAID sync itself had succeeded with no errors) : 1°) Generate a random file 1 GB size named "1go" in /home dd if=/dev/urandom of=/home/1go bs=1M count=1000 2°) Small script : copy that file XXX times (replace...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:23 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:50 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
I guess I've been misunderstood. I was kidding about the "losing data" part. Of course I'm in a RAID 5 array, so I'm not afraid of that. This being said, I'm sorry but I won't waste my time in using that stupid - and probably buggy at this time - Samsung HUTIL thing. I don't know if you really are a...
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:57 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
If your raid array permits running HUTIL somehow, I would be very grateful if you did, and reported your results here. should they wind up positive, I will be ordering the F1 soon. To be honest, I don't trust the current version of HUTIL. And to be more specific, the Debian-based tests we've been t...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:03 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
Just FYI, after a full weekend of work, everything is working as expected here. 3 Samsung HD103UJ in a Debian 4.0 software-controlled RAID-5 array : http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/5218/dsc06455ri7.th.jpg http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4854/dsc06454ok2.th.jpg Hardware specs : - Motherboard : ...
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:53 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
For what it's worth, that's precisely what I've been thinking since the beginning. I just think that current test software isn't able to correctly monitor those new F1 drives, and that it's the software that needs updating, not the drives. So until all this becomes crystal clear, people, please STOP...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:14 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:04 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
The Samsung F1 is known to have problems right now. Oh really ? And known by WHO precisely ? By you maybe ? Would you please tell us who in the world has real authority to say that a brand new drive is "known to have problems" ? I'm curious. It's always the same story : when a new product comes up ...
- Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:03 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
Oh BTW, I have just received my nine HD103UJ from Newegg : http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7190/dsc06442xc3.th.jpg http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4114/dsc06446zz6.th.jpg There are only seven in the picture because the two others were for a friend of mine. I'll probably test them next week-end. ...
- Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:36 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
- Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:13 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
... in YOUR not-so-humble opinion. Please stop trying to give people lessons on what they have to buy. Unless you know much more than them about hard drives, which is not the case here. If you're no more interested in the F1's, then I believe this topic is of no more interest to you, and you can go ...
- Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:30 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:05 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
- Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:38 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
- Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:08 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
samsung reps themselves claimed that the F1s in europe/germany right now were "grey-imports" from a different market. I'm buying mines from newegg (HD103UJ... sigh), so I hope they're good. So noise is the same, price is a little lower, performance maybe a little less (but irrelevant for movies/mus...
- Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:34 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 397147
I agree with you about that point. Why don't you just buy the western digital hard drive? Because the Samsung F1 is currently the ONLY 1TB drive in the world with only 3 platters, and I like that for obvious reasons. :wink: by the way in germany, the 16MB and 32MB versions are priced the same, so t...