Quietest ~1TB, at least 7200 RPM?

jberling · Post by **jberling** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:31 pm

Adding the parameter of at least 7200 RPM (I do need the performance) to a previous question on this forum - what do you suggest? Would prefer to avoid RAID solutions if possible, but if you have a really great solution using RAID, let me know.

Regards,

Jonas

ekerazha · Post by **ekerazha** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:02 pm

jberling wrote:Adding the parameter of at least 7200 RPM (I do need the performance) to a previous question on this forum - what do you suggest? Would prefer to avoid RAID solutions if possible, but if you have a really great solution using RAID, let me know.

Regards,

Jonas

I'd say Seagate Barracuda 7200.12

... or Samsung Spinpoint F1

Michael Sandstrom · Post by **Michael Sandstrom** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:02 pm

I have two of the Samsung F1 drives that are extremely quiet in an almost silent PC. I have never turned on AAM because there is no need.

jstutman · Post by **jstutman** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:04 pm

Western Digital green, not only quiet but energy efficent

jberling · Post by **jberling** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:58 pm

jstutman wrote:Western Digital green, not only quiet but energy efficent

But that's not 7200 RPM, is it?

/Jonas

InfyMcGirk · Post by **InfyMcGirk** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:37 am

+1 for Samsung F1s. I've got two and they're quiet, as far as fast, large HDDs go.

edh · Post by **edh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:47 am

jberling wrote:But that's not 7200 RPM, is it?

Does that matter? Spindle speed is only one factor that effects transfer speed. Data density has a greater effect but data density isn't something you can easily sell as a speed advantage so people who wear designer framed spectacles and use flipcharts decided that it would much easier to market spindle speed as everyone knows what rpm means.

Ignore spindle speed and look at proper performance metrics. The Green Power will do you fine.

Jay_S · Post by **Jay_S** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:59 am

I have a 500GB 7200.12, and while it's quieter than the drive it replaced (7200.9), it is NOT NEARLY as quiet as my WD10EADS green drive. Seeks are clearly audible if not soft-mounted. Mine is sitting on foam at the bottom of a NSK2480 on hardwood floor under my desk. It's better than hard-mounting, but I still hear seeks. It's sad because I built this machine to get OFF the floor, but the drive is too loud on my desk. I don't have a lot of room in this case, but I'm going to have to figure out a suspension setup.

I love the performance, though! Here's the iozone results for the 7200.12.

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iozone -Rab output.wks -i 0 -i 1 -+u -y 64k -q 64k -n 32m -g 4G -z

That tests 64k record sizes for files from 32MB to 4GB. Left-most column is file size, every other column is kB/s per test. Ignore everything except the 2GB and 4GB data points (everything smaller is cache and ram). ~120 MB/s reads & ~80MB/s writes up to 4GB!

For comparrison, Here's my WD 1TB green drive (in a slightly slower system):

Because they're different systems, the results are probably not directly comparable. You can clearly see performance dive as soon as system RAM is exhausted! This system has only 1GB ram, so ignore data points for file-size < 1048576KB.

I have no way of testing these in the same system. The slower A64's SATA ports are connected (I believe) the the PCI bus on the ULI M1567 southbridge, and I have other PCI devices so the PCI bus might be starved and skewing my numbers a little.

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