Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB HD -$109.00

Anyone know how loud these drives are? I've got an old 1tb hitachi deskstar drive I ripped out of an external and the clicking of it drives my girlfriends crazy.
 
lasserith said:
Anyone know how loud these drives are? I've got an old 1tb hitachi deskstar drive I ripped out of an external and the clicking of it drives my girlfriends crazy.
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I got a 2TB Hitatchi Coolspin in my HTPC for DVD Rips and I cannot hear it at all.
 
How are Seagate drives these days? The last time I bought a hard drive, Seagate was plagued with so many problems, everyone avoided them. Did they finally get their stuff together?
 
I've got 1 in my HTPC and its been fine. Cant comment on sound levels though cause theres other drives and fans runing but i will say i dont hear any hard drive noise over them and there quiet fans.

I paid $89 for it locally at Microcenter when they had a deal on it months ago right after the flood before the prices went straight up. $109 is the cheapest i've seen these drives since on sale at MC.
 
dC0m said:
How are Seagate drives these days? The last time I bought a hard drive, Seagate was plagued with so many problems, everyone avoided them. Did they finally get their stuff together?
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EDIT: There $134 at MC now.
 
Currently the best price on a 2TB? Guess if you need storage it's not bad.
 
If he's posting on here probably a few at least (on World of Warcraft).

On topic: Just picked one up to back up my other failing 2TB before I send it off for RMA. Thanks OP.
 
Bah... I bought this drive yesterday, before the promo, and had to may for shipping. If I'd bought it today, I would have saved $28.
 
contact support via chat and they will credit you the difference. they did for me when that happened.
 
I thought this thread was about a Seagate 2TB HDD for negative one hundred nine dollars.
 
lasserith said:
Anyone know how loud these drives are? I've got an old 1tb hitachi deskstar drive I ripped out of an external and the clicking of it drives my girlfriends crazy.
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These dries are very quiet. I had one in a case with a low RPM 120mm fan and a 80mm quiet psu fan. VERY quiet system, and the drive is pretty fast as well for a 5900rpm drive.
 
anonuser said:
Currently the best price on a 2TB? Guess if you need storage it's not bad.
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That's exactly what I'm going to use it for,I already have a USB enclosure to put it in. Price was too good to pass up,given what drives cost lately.
 
I goofed and hit s when I shouldn't have. Just the one. Probably going to pick this up for myself.
 
GoldenTiger said:
It affects latency but is not equal to it. That also is not transfer speed.... That's latency. Sigh x2.........
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When did I ever mention transfer speed? Latency is more important than transfer speed in any modern drive. That's why SSD's are so awesome, minimal latency.

Granted RPM:Latency ratio has increased tremendously over the years, but still have you ever used a drive with super high latency as an OS drive? It's absolutely terrible. In normal operating conditions transfer speed is irrelevant. your OS will rarely do sequential reads for longer than a gig or two.

I picked up one of these for my future atom ftp/http server.
 
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