Sub-terabyte suggestions wanted.

Fire-Flare · Post by **Fire-Flare** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:55 pm

I'm looking to upgrade to quieter drives without breaking the bank. Capacity isn't an issue so much as price, cheaper is better for me.

I don't care about dimensions, spindle speed, number of platters, or SATA version. Just acoustics.

HFat · Post by **HFat** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:13 pm

If you don't care about capacity, only about acoustics then get an SSD.

Fire-Flare · Post by **Fire-Flare** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:51 pm

HFat wrote:If you don't care about capacity, only about acoustics then get an SSD.

As a boot drive certainly, but I can't afford one large enough for applications.

Abula · Post by **Abula** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:58 pm

Check Hitachi 5K500B, its on the SPCR recommend list, here is their review, More 500GB notebook drives: Seagate 7200.4 & Hitachi 5K500.B. If you can still get an SSD for OS/APPs.

HFat · Post by **HFat** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:12 am

The 250G 5K500.B is probably better than the one reviewed by SPCR. I've bought a bunch of these and I can recommend them. I've screwed them directly to the case without anything to dampen the vibrations and most people can't hear them anyway.

Fire-Flare · Post by **Fire-Flare** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:33 am

Abula wrote:Check Hitachi 5K500B, its on the SPCR recommend list, here is their review, More 500GB notebook drives: Seagate 7200.4 & Hitachi 5K500.B. If you can still get an SSD for OS/APPs.

Hitachi claims its modern notebook drives have the same specs, these 160-320 GB models are single platter too.

http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-driv ... tar-z5k320

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