2TB SATA drives - relative spin up times?
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:39 am
Sounds like a funny question, but it seems quite hard to dig up the information successfully (as in the time from drive power on before the system can access the drive), but I figured some of the users here would have experience with the drives for HTPC use and might be able to give some feedback.
Currently I'm running a 2TB Samsung F3 as a media drive for my HTPC inside an external USB chassis, which I'm considering swapping to another 2TB, probably an F4 (which are meant to be quieter, faster and lower power due to some improvements and a shift from 4 to 3 platter).
Now because the external chassis is set to automatically powerup and power down, it reboots the drive during the windows boot sequence when USB hardware is initialised. As the system is based around an SSD, boot time is extremely fast, and the media drive doesn't complete its spin up/initialisation quick enough after the usb reinitialisation (actually it's probably the longest I've ever seen a drive take to spin up, it must be close to 10 seconds before its ready for use), which can cause issues with file navigation, due to the drive not being accessible in time.
The money side of things isn't a worry as the old drive will get sold or used elsewhere if it is replaced.
As it is, even with AAM on quiet, I think this 2TB is the loudest Samsung drive I've ever used, its got quite a noticeable spin up whir and seeking (a view which also seems relected in the SPCR review of the drive I read yesterday), so I'm not against the idea of swapping for something else anyway, as I'm pretty sure its actually louder than the HTPC itself which only produces an extremely faint 'air movement' noise.
Thanks in advance!
Currently I'm running a 2TB Samsung F3 as a media drive for my HTPC inside an external USB chassis, which I'm considering swapping to another 2TB, probably an F4 (which are meant to be quieter, faster and lower power due to some improvements and a shift from 4 to 3 platter).
Now because the external chassis is set to automatically powerup and power down, it reboots the drive during the windows boot sequence when USB hardware is initialised. As the system is based around an SSD, boot time is extremely fast, and the media drive doesn't complete its spin up/initialisation quick enough after the usb reinitialisation (actually it's probably the longest I've ever seen a drive take to spin up, it must be close to 10 seconds before its ready for use), which can cause issues with file navigation, due to the drive not being accessible in time.
The money side of things isn't a worry as the old drive will get sold or used elsewhere if it is replaced.
As it is, even with AAM on quiet, I think this 2TB is the loudest Samsung drive I've ever used, its got quite a noticeable spin up whir and seeking (a view which also seems relected in the SPCR review of the drive I read yesterday), so I'm not against the idea of swapping for something else anyway, as I'm pretty sure its actually louder than the HTPC itself which only produces an extremely faint 'air movement' noise.
Thanks in advance!