Three years you say... sounds like time for a new build!

My own build in progress has shown me just how much quieter things have got over time.

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Ok i recieved a second one. The first was labeled hd204ui/z4 sep 10, the second is hd204ui/uz4 sep 10. Some people have said that the slash suffix relates to reduced warranty, others to 'grey imports' etc. But the samsung waranty checker says its code 100, good til 2013/12. Anyway back to the subjec...

Theres a huge amount of fuss and bother about 4k sector AF drives. The simple fact is that the drives present to the OS as 512 byte/sector drives as do other drives. But the underlying sector size is 4K. Thus the important thing to remember is to partition the disk from scratch starting with an offs...

Anyone who gets multiple of these can you please let us know what the vibration variance is? Mines bad.

OP: i had some nice WDs in the early 2000s up to an inlcuding a 250GB WD2500JB, which i thought was the bees knees in terms of quiet, at the time. Then i got a 500GB version cant remember the model, didnt even install it it , the noise was abolutely shocking, gave it away the same day in disgust. Af...

Unfortunately the drive is mounted on its side (inwin bm639). I quite like the format of the case in general (coming from various smaller morex/procases), however the clearance between the drive side and the case side is maybe only 5mm. The F2 has no (and requires no) anti-vibration mounting, and fr...

I just got a f4 2TB to replace its predecessor a f2 1TB HD105SI. The latter is the most vibration free samsung ive ever owned, and so i knew it would be hard to maintain that standard. Im interested in others experiences to see what the variance is. If there IS variance i will order a couple more an...