400 GB HDDs - Which?

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:50 pm

7K400 or 7200.8? Or any OTHERs? (SATA preferred, but can go ATA if ATA versions are quieter, OR if AAM can be enabled ? ? ? )

Which would you guys recommend in terms of noise?

Splinter · Post by **Splinter** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:22 pm

I ahve the 200gb model, not the 400gb, but the Maxtor DM10 with AMM is exceedingly quiet and quite zippy to boot.

maxxxim · Post by **maxxxim** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:02 pm

I have Hitachi's new SATA II drives; at least on my country is cheaper when you buy 2 x 250GB HDD's then 1 x 400GB.

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:39 pm

I don't think maxtor ahs a 400 GB DM10, do they ?

maxxxim · Post by **maxxxim** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:54 pm

No, 300GB is max. Only Hitachi and Seagate have. And Hitachi is definitely quieter then Seagate even without AAM.

Shuriken · Post by **Shuriken** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:48 pm

maxximm:
Do you have the new T7K250 Hitachi drives? from the short user experiences i have read about it, people mentioned it was much louder then the 7k250.

maxxxim · Post by **maxxxim** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:04 am

Yes I have new ones, 160GB and 250GB. Noise level is similar, before these I had "old" 250GB Hitachi 7K250 SATA-150 and I compared it.

Alucard · Post by **Alucard** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:55 am

I have the 7200.8 400's and 300 seagates. I used to own 7200.7 200, and some wd 200 jb whiners. At idle the drives are pretty quiet, you can hear the seeks though but I didn't suspend them yet. I know the seagate will make less noise then the hitachi since it's 3 platters vs 5 platters. I noticed a big drop in noise getting rid of my 7 drive system 1 74 raptor 3x 200 jbs 3 x 7200.7 200's. I would think 1 x 400 maybe better then 2x200 even if they are quiet drives. But the 400 needs cooling I think, it's alot hotter then my raptor.

Poodle · Post by **Poodle** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:48 pm

I'm really happy with my new Wb 320 (JB)

Silent and very very very cost effective, at least here in Sweden.

Shining Arcanine · Post by **Shining Arcanine** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:56 am

Poodle wrote:I'm really happy with my new Wb 320 (JB)

Silent and very very very cost effective, at least here in Sweden.

I am too. The only problem is that he asked for a 400GB hard drive and Western Digital doesn't make 400GB hard drives yet.

Poodle · Post by **Poodle** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:01 am

I hear ya...

The reason I mentioned it at all is because I to was in the market for a 400Gb. But I realized that one can almost

get 2 wd 320 for the price of one Cuda 400 (Sweden, donno elsewhere) Keep in mind that 400gb

320Gb = just a 20% storage drop. But the cost drops significantly more than 20% (now without exaggeration)...So I at least, went for the WD.

fanerman91 · Post by **fanerman91** » Tue May 24, 2005 11:42 am

Shining Arcanine wrote:
Poodle wrote:I'm really happy with my new Wb 320 (JB)

Silent and very very very cost effective, at least here in Sweden.
I am too. The only problem is that he asked for a 400GB hard drive and Western Digital doesn't make 400GB hard drives yet.

Are you both referring to the Western Digital WD3200JD? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822144394?

I'm in the market for a large HD (250+) and I'm wondering what to get.