What about 1.8" HDD's?
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What about 1.8" HDD's?
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According to Toshiba's technical specs page, the official noise specs are very SPCR-friendly: 16dB during idle, max. 22dB during seeks.
Also, the price of these doesn't seem to be that much more than equivalent 2.5" drives, obviously a bit more per GB but the price gap isn't huge, and the novelty factor and the "Wow! Cool." technical ingenuity angle.
From the Ipod's that I have seen they are silent in operation (apart from clicking of the buttons etc).
I suspect the main stumbling block would be trying to find an adapter to use these with standard 40-pin IDE cables; it supports up to ATA-6 interface standard.
According to Toshiba's technical specs page, the official noise specs are very SPCR-friendly: 16dB during idle, max. 22dB during seeks.
Also, the price of these doesn't seem to be that much more than equivalent 2.5" drives, obviously a bit more per GB but the price gap isn't huge, and the novelty factor and the "Wow! Cool." technical ingenuity angle.
From the Ipod's that I have seen they are silent in operation (apart from clicking of the buttons etc).
I suspect the main stumbling block would be trying to find an adapter to use these with standard 40-pin IDE cables; it supports up to ATA-6 interface standard.
Re: What about 1.8" HDD's?
Yeah, totally isn't huge, I mean it's not like I paid less than this for a 60 GB 2.5" Samsung half a year agojaganath wrote:Also, the price of these doesn't seem to be that much more than equivalent 2.5" drives, obviously a bit more per GB but the price gap isn't huge
OK, so they're more expensive than the equivalent capacity 2.5" hard drives; is this a surprise to anyone? In fact it would be more surprising if that wasn't the case. With every new technology there are always early adopters who are happy to pay a price premium to have state of the art gear; I have no doubts that this applies to silent PC types as much as any other computer owners.I mean it's not like I paid less than this for a 60 GB 2.5" Samsung half a year ago
It should also be noted that 2.5" Samsungs / 4200rpm Toshibas / potentially many others are inaudible in but the quietest of situations (especially when suspended), so I really fail to see the usefulness of a drive like this for desktop computing (or laptop computing, for that matter).
I'm always prone to sarcasm, apologies. The point I intended to make (but perhaps never got around to it) was that this is really an overkill. Think Zalman TNN-level overkill.
I'm always prone to sarcasm, apologies. The point I intended to make (but perhaps never got around to it) was that this is really an overkill. Think Zalman TNN-level overkill.
There's a 1.8" drive in my portable media player. It's quiet, but louder than my quietest 2.5" drive (a 40gig WD Scorpio).
For now, I don't see any advantage for them. As for the "wow" factor--impossible to see any difference when you've entombed the drive in a heavily damped enclosure the size of a 5.25" optical drive.
For now, I don't see any advantage for them. As for the "wow" factor--impossible to see any difference when you've entombed the drive in a heavily damped enclosure the size of a 5.25" optical drive.
I thought the iPod harddrive spins for only a fraction of the time the machine is working, and the rest of the time it parks the drive and reads from memory? Could be why the ones you've seen seem so quiet compared to the other posters here.From the Ipod's that I have seen they are silent in operation (apart from clicking of the buttons etc).
Playing off that, I don't think 1.8" hard drives are meant to run hard in a computer environment, and I'm thinking the current ones would be too slow to be of any use.SixToes wrote:I thought the iPod harddrive spins for only a fraction of the time the machine is working, and the rest of the time it parks the drive and reads from memory? Could be why the ones you've seen seem so quiet compared to the other posters here.From the Ipod's that I have seen they are silent in operation (apart from clicking of the buttons etc).
The 1.8" drive I mentioned I have in my laptop is fairly fast. It does not seem to work any slower than other laptops and it is permanently on. If it was not for the noise, it would be as suitable as any other drive for a system.Badger wrote:Playing off that, I don't think 1.8" hard drives are meant to run hard in a computer environment, and I'm thinking the current ones would be too slow to be of any use.