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- Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Cooling hard drives in a Silverston ST17
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1376
Cooling hard drives in a Silverston ST17
My HTPC is working nicely, but now that I have 5 drives in it (1 500G Samsung, 4 1TB GPs) the hard drives are getting pretty hot. I am running with the Etasis Fanless PSU and the original 2 case fans at 5V (they are just too noisy at 12V but barely move any air at 5V). So now I am wondering what I c...
- Sat May 23, 2009 1:14 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Buying new WD 1TB driver
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4668
I call BS on the Linux claim. This is from a 18 month old WD10EACS running in a RAID5 on Ubuntu (note it is not quite running 24/7, more like 24/3 or so because I'm abroad a lot): === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD10EACS-00ZJB0 Serial Number: WD-WCASJ1282787 Firmware Version: ...
- Sat May 23, 2009 1:07 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD announces quiet 2TB hd, less than one sone
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2402
For some curious reason, it idles at higher power draw than the 20EADS. And as for noise, unless the signature is significantly different (which I doubt), it has the same dbA ratings as the 20EADS in AAM mode so not much to see here, I'd say. Unless of course they would slash the price, current per ...
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:52 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD10EA[C|D]S, WD10000CS or Samsung Ecogreen F2 for HTPC
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2041
WD10EA[C|D]S, WD10000CS or Samsung Ecogreen F2 for HTPC
I'm looking to upgrade my HTPC which already has 3 WD10EA*S in RAID5 with another one or two drives. Since it is softraid, I don't necessarily need to use the very same drive so I'm trying to decide between: WD10EACS/EADS (to me, they are identical, I couldnt care less about the cache so I just take...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:58 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AMD's Maui HTPC Platform
- Replies: 163
- Views: 172528
mozartrules: Except for the facts that I already have the Nvidia board and do not really feel like tearing my HTPC apart just to replace the mother board. Adding a PCI card would be ok, rebuilding the whole thing decidedly is not (mostly I'm too lazy for that). And once I go rebuilding, the price di...
- Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:12 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AMD's Maui HTPC Platform
- Replies: 163
- Views: 172528
Is the AMP available as some sort of PCI card or so? I would love to use something like this to replace my old Technics Analog 5.1 Receiver but I dont want to replace my Asus Nforce8200 board... AMD 780G is horrible under Linux, if you want accelerated video decoding, there is no way around nvidia o...
- Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:08 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: GreenPower vs EcoGreen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4945
As a matter of fact, I have 3 and 4 platter GPs, but I cannot easily review them because taking apart the RAID array is a major hassle... It could be done but it is risky. So far, the 2TB GP are way too expensive. What I believe I will do is mix 1TB and 2TB in RAID5 once they get to similar price le...
- Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:08 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: GreenPower vs EcoGreen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4945
GreenPower vs EcoGreen
In Switzerland the EcoGreen finally ships, at the same price as the venerable GreenPower. I have 3 GreenPower in a RAID5 in my HTPC and I am looking to add another drive. Now I'm wondering which one is better, the GreenPower or the EcoGreen? It's software RAID, so the drives do not need to match, no...
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:32 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Platter size, fewer but bigger the quieter right? But..
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4252
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:31 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD10EACS 00D6B0 at MicroCenter - YMMV
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21560
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:42 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Got a Samung HD103UI (1TB EcoGreen) on Sunday
- Replies: 26
- Views: 33709
That's great news. I was debating getting another GreenPower but cheaper and perhaps even more silent makes me wait (ok, in fairness, the 3 platter 1TB GP should come RSN, maybe that one will be lower priced, too). The F1 is widely available in Europe (bit cheaper than the GP, too) but it vibrates w...
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:53 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD guy on hard drive suspension: "It's horrible!"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19733
- Wed May 21, 2008 7:59 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 2x Seagate 7200.11 1TB or 2x Samsung F1 1 TB @ RAID-1
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5284
- Wed May 21, 2008 1:28 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 2x Seagate 7200.11 1TB or 2x Samsung F1 1 TB @ RAID-1
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5284
- Sun May 18, 2008 5:43 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Need a new 250GB Silent Drive 3.5"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5293
Since speed is what you're after, have you considered the Velociraptor drives? They supposedly are quite silent and as nearly 2.5" drives they should vibrate a lot less...
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14583/15
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14583/15
- Sun May 18, 2008 1:41 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 406657
From what I gathered (no personal experience though) the WD 640GB disk is pretty low noise and quite fast, better than even the Samsung, IIRC.
See http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14380
See http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14380
- Sat May 17, 2008 11:31 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 406657
I have one in a SATA-USB enclosure thingy. It's not getting overly hot and is making pretty low noise for 7200RPM but both noise and vibration wise it does not match a GreenPower by quite a bit. Let's just say I will probably order the GreenPower the next time I need a disk, never mind it costs 10% ...
- Wed May 14, 2008 11:56 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 406657
- Sun May 11, 2008 4:46 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Western Digital GP 500GB vs. 1TB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3931
Re: Western Digital GP 500GB vs. 1TB
And on another note, how does the GP series compare to the newer 320GB platter drives? There's a lot of talk about the newer drives, but it much of focus is on performance, which I don't care so much about. I'm much more concerned about noise, so does anyone have experience with the two and can com...
- Fri May 09, 2008 6:02 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung has plans for 5400 rpm 334GB platter drives EcoGreen
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5093
- Fri May 09, 2008 3:41 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung has plans for 5400 rpm 334GB platter drives EcoGreen
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5093
>Btw, how do the standard F1s fare versus the 321KJ, noise-wise? I have a couple of 321s, and they're the most silent drives I've EVER (not) heard... This is slightly besides the point, but maybe it will help you still: I have a F1 and a GreenPower both in USB enclosures (not the same type though). ...
- Tue May 06, 2008 11:53 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung has plans for 5400 rpm 334GB platter drives EcoGreen
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5093
- Thu May 01, 2008 12:06 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD6400AAKS released
- Replies: 89
- Views: 83722
Formatted capacity is a totally useless measure because every filesystem will have different formatted capacity. I have no problem with them using 10^12 bytes for a TB as long as its openly declared. It's not like you don't know what you're buying, really. Now bring on the 1TB 3 platter Greenpower, ...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:44 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD6400AAKS released
- Replies: 89
- Views: 83722
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:16 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Anandtech Power Consumption test - 780G v GF8200 v G35
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11931
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:21 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Anandtech Power Consumption test - 780G v GF8200 v G35
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11931
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:07 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Anandtech Power Consumption test - 780G v GF8200 v G35
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11931
- Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:36 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: What's the ideal mobo and CPU for WHS
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18744
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:45 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Testing out the GeForce 8200 chipset...(ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 28061
Some guy in a German forum had it running HD DVD on a X2 4400+ (Windows) without problems. Not sure what audio codec he was using, though. There's NO way you can do full bitrate 1080p in software on Linux right now. Not even on a 3.0 GHz Wolfdale, for all I'm told. I can barely do low bitrate 1080p ...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:49 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Testing out the GeForce 8200 chipset...(ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 28061