Anyone have a Fujitsu 2,5" 5400 rpm drive?

madman2003 · Post by **madman2003** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:56 am

Does anyone have them?(either the 40, the 60 or the 80 GB drive)

Are they as noisy as the manufacturer claims them to be?

EDIT: changed to 5400 rpm drive, since the sata and pata models share the same acoustic specs.

madman2003 · Post by **madman2003** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:40 am

Linus · Post by **Linus** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:22 am

I've got the 60GB version, the MHT2060AH. It isn't silent - I can hear a very mild "shhh" when my panaflo's (80mm & 92mm) are at 5v, but they cover it up when I feed them any more voltage. It's quieter than any other hard drive I've owned, though, so I'm happy. Note, I've never had a Samsung Spinpoint or any of the really quiet Barracuda IV's & V's. YMMV.

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:34 am

May not be relevant, but most manufacturers that I've seen (I work @ BestBuy, usually we carry Toshibas, Sonys, HPs, Compaqs, Gateways, eMachines), and a lot of them use the Fujitsu drives. If they dont use the Fujitsus, they tend to use Hitachi's/Toshibas, but mainly Fujitsus is what I see.

nocturnal · Post by **nocturnal** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:34 am

I have both the Samsung Spinpoints (2 in raid0) and 2 of the SATA Fujitsu MHT2040BH models. The Samsung Spinpoints are very noticeaby quieter, but the Fujitsu's have a respectable performance advantage. (in single drive testing as one of the Fujitsu's was DOA and I'm still waiting for it's replacement to test RAID0.) They are all much quieter than my Niidec motor'd Samsung Spinpoint SP1614N. Still I would have probably stayed with all Samsung 2.5" drives if it hadn't been for the limited IDE channel availability on one of my MoBo's and the four empty SATA ports on the P4P800. I am in the process of moving all 4 systems throughout the house to laptop drive RAID0 arrays and then accessing a central File server with a 4 disc RAID5 array. In single disc use the 2.5" drives do not impress me, but in RAID0 there is a hardly noticeable increase in noise, but a performance gain that leaves my single 7200 rpm drives behind (yes there are no Raptors or 10K screamers anywhere to be found).

engseng · Post by **engseng** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:33 pm

I also have the 60Gb. I put it in my Sarotech 2.5" external casing and use it to backup my stuff. I bought after reading the recommendation on SPCR, and they're right --- it certainly is quiet.