Quietest 250GB drive?
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Quietest 250GB drive?
Hey all,
I'm going to put together a RAID5 array in a quiet (not silent) workstation. It looks like the best bang/buck is at 250GB. I'm going to use 4 SATA drives (coming from a system with a 15k SCSI drive) and am wondering which is going to be the best wrt noise. From the reviews, it looks like the Maxtor MLIII is the best overall, but I hear people praising the Hitachi drives.
Well folks, opinions?
Thanks,
BoB
I'm going to put together a RAID5 array in a quiet (not silent) workstation. It looks like the best bang/buck is at 250GB. I'm going to use 4 SATA drives (coming from a system with a 15k SCSI drive) and am wondering which is going to be the best wrt noise. From the reviews, it looks like the Maxtor MLIII is the best overall, but I hear people praising the Hitachi drives.
Well folks, opinions?
Thanks,
BoB
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I have one of the new WD SATA drives (with FDB) and would highly recommend that. It is very quiet (basically inaudible in my system). Considering that you are shooting for a quiet and not silent system, they should work great. (I'm also about to pick up 4 of the 250's for my campus tv station becaues of the bang for the buck. monarchcomputer.com has the 250's for $110.)
Yeah, I looked there. I couldn't find any of the Sammy 250GBs at any US resellers. Any pointers?NeilBlanchard wrote:Hello Bob & welcome,
Have you checked out the recommended drives section? I'm betting that the Samsung are going to be the quietest, based on my experience with other drives -- I have not used the new larger Samsungs, though.
Thanks,
BoB
I'm a little biased. The whole reason I want to do RAID5 is my POS WD drives that keep failing and taking my data down with them. To WDs credit, the RMA has always been smooth, but they refuse to admit there's a greater problem. For that reason, I don't know if I can support them.teknerd wrote:I have one of the new WD SATA drives (with FDB) and would highly recommend that. It is very quiet (basically inaudible in my system). Considering that you are shooting for a quiet and not silent system, they should work great. (I'm also about to pick up 4 of the 250's for my campus tv station becaues of the bang for the buck. monarchcomputer.com has the 250's for $110.)
Thanks,
BoB
My system is now entirely WD drives (a 40GB, a 74GB Raptor, and a 320GB SATA JD-series) and i havent had a problem, course i understand your bias, im the same way with several companies. I'd still recommend the WD but if you really dont want to go with them then the maxtor diamondback 10's would probably be your best bet.Bob-O wrote:I'm a little biased. The whole reason I want to do RAID5 is my POS WD drives that keep failing and taking my data down with them. To WDs credit, the RMA has always been smooth, but they refuse to admit there's a greater problem. For that reason, I don't know if I can support them.
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Monarch had them in stock a week ago, but they seem to be out ATM. You could try checking their website every so often, or maybe give them a call.BoB-O wrote:If you could only buy them in the USA.BenW wrote:From what i've read on here, the new samsung 250GBs are possibly the quietest drives you can buy
I have a mail out to endpcnoise.com to see if they can get them.
BoB
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant ... HardDrives
Or you could settle for 200Gb. Both newegg and ZZF carry those for a very reasonable price.
I would also not recommend WD, although for different reasons. All our WDs have been very reliable, not a single failure in over ~8 drives, however my recent 3200JD has a very audible whine.
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=23109
I'm not the originator, but I also posted there several times. There are also couple of other threads here in silent storage forum about the same problem if you search back.