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Quietest HDD?

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perplex

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What's the quietest HDD you guys have ever heard? (average the seek and idle noise) :)
 
The Seagate Barracuda ATA V is held to be the quitest drive ever. The quietest drive that is still manufactured is the SpinPoint P80 series. I have never had an ATA V, but I can attest that Samsung is still the quiet hard drive to beat. The 7200.7 was good, and Hitachi and (especially) WD have made their drives a lot quieter. Seagate has slipped a little with 7200.8 and Maxtor still has a ways to go. If quiet operation is prized above all else, your search begins and ends with Samsung SP P80.
 
DougLite said:
The Seagate Barracuda ATA V is held to be the quitest drive ever. The quietest drive that is still manufactured is the SpinPoint P80 series. I have never had an ATA V, but I can attest that Samsung is still the quiet hard drive to beat. The 7200.7 was good, and Hitachi and (especially) WD have made their drives a lot quieter. Seagate has slipped a little with 7200.8 and Maxtor still has a ways to go. If quiet operation is prized above all else, your search begins and ends with Samsung SP P80.
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Mhm, in addition to this if you are really interested the folks over at the http://www.silentpcreview.com forums really go into this deeply and there is a ton of talk about Seagate and Samsung and their most quiet drives. I have three Seagate drives (all 7200.7) and I must say I love them. I have never had Samsung drives but I only hear good things.
 
The gigabyte ramdisk should pretty dang quiet; it's solid-state... :D

 
I've personally worked with the Seagate Barracuda IV, V, 7200.7, 7200.8 and the Samsung SpinPoint P80, but none of these are as quiet as the recent 2.5" drives from Toshiba, Samsung, and Fujitsu. I use a Samsung MP0402H and quite simply it's the quietest drive I've ever worked with.

As far as 3.5" drives go, I'd say it's a tossup between certain Barracuda IVs and SpinPoint P80s.
 
xonik said:
I've personally worked with the Seagate Barracuda IV, V, 7200.7, 7200.8 and the Samsung SpinPoint P80, but none of these are as quiet as the recent 2.5" drives from Toshiba, Samsung, and Fujitsu. I use a Samsung MP0402H and quite simply it's the quietest drive I've ever worked with.

As far as 3.5" drives go, I'd say it's a tossup between certain Barracuda IVs and SpinPoint P80s.
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bingo! this is my dilemma. so i was thinking of buying Samsung MP0402H and then buying a seagate 200GB or someting in a external enclosure for backup. but i dont know if i should get a samsung spinpoint 3.5" and suspend it :confused:

what kind of performance in the real world do you find with the Samsung MP0402H compared to 3.5" you've worked with? my curreny hard disk is a deathstar 75GB so i have no idea what kind of performance current drives have :(

have you ever tried suspension?
 
Suspension is a Bad Idea. When the drive tries to seek, the motion of the head kicks the rest of the drive in the opposite direction (physics 101). This means that the first time it seeks, it doesn't go far enough and has to do it again. This, in turn, means seeks take much longer.

As I understand it, anyway. I haven't benchmarked it myself.
 
perplex said:
bingo! this is my dilemma. so i was thinking of buying Samsung MP0402H and then buying a seagate 200GB or someting in a external enclosure for backup. but i dont know if i should get a samsung spinpoint 3.5" and suspend it :confused:

what kind of performance in the real world do you find with the Samsung MP0402H compared to 3.5" you've worked with? my curreny hard disk is a deathstar 75GB so i have no idea what kind of performance current drives have :(

have you ever tried suspension?
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The MP0402H has decent read/write performance, but frankly, the access times are noticeably slower. That's the inherent limitations of 5400 RPM drives, unfortunately. Even with the shorter actuator arms, the access performance wasn't as good in my experience.

I haven't dealt with suspension myself, so my comments didn't reflect the drives' acoustics while under suspension.
 
I will add the caveat to my recommendations that they only apply to 3.5x1 inch 'desktop' drives. As has been pointed out, a 2.5" drive is capable of reaching new lows in noise floors, heat output, and power consumption that it is simply not possible to achieve with a 3.5" drive. As a matter of fact, most half way recent 2.5" drives will be quiter than the absolute best 3.5" drives. One situation where smaller really is better.
 
DougLite said:
...One situation where smaller really is better.
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:eek: when is it not? :rolleyes: :D

anyway, ok thanks for all the replies - i think i'll go with a 2.5"

xonik said:
The MP0402H has decent read/write performance, but frankly, the access times are noticeably slower. That's the inherent limitations of 5400 RPM drives, unfortunately. Even with the shorter actuator arms, the access performance wasn't as good in my experience.

I haven't dealt with suspension myself, so my comments didn't reflect the drives' acoustics while under suspension.
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do you think it'll have better performance than my 5 year old deathstar?
 
Peformance? :confused:

Read/write, no.
Access, no.
Acoustic, yes.
Thermal, yes.
Power efficiency, yes.
 
A modern 5400RPM 2.5" drive with an 8MB will at least be competitive with a 5 year old desktop drive. Actually, I'd expect the 2.5" drive to pull ahead, especially given the larger buffer.
 
:D that's nice to know! ;)

i was just thinking that the data density would be similar or less than my deathstar 75GB so performance would be similar or less :rolleyes:

i think i'll get Samsung MP0402H :cool:
 
xonik said:
I'd be curious to see if it makes any sort of real-world impression.
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Me too! I would also think that such effects would be minimized if you had a suspension system with tough elastic like the NoVibes one.
 
I normally never ask a newbie question since I usually know what people are talking about, but wtf is suspending?

-Rikus
 
Suspension uses foam and/or rubber bands or similar materials to create a totally isolated environment for the hard drive to operate in. The goal is to allow the drive to work without transferring vibrations to the case.
 
DougLite said:
Suspension uses foam and/or rubber bands or similar materials to create a totally isolated environment for the hard drive to operate in. The goal is to allow the drive to work without transferring vibrations to the case.
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Danke!

-Rikus
 
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