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- Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:58 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: EcoGreen F2 500GB not as quiet as expected
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18025
It's only after I changed all the fans (they are now all truly inaudible) that I noticed the hard disk noise. Before that I was perfectly happy with it. That is the typical mod cycle. This may get me branded as a heretic, but have you considered turning the fans back up? If you were happy with the ...
- Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:28 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: EcoGreen F2 500GB not as quiet as expected
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18025
- Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: EcoGreen F2 500GB not as quiet as expected
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18025
- Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:40 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: EcoGreen F2 500GB not as quiet as expected
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18025
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:17 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: possible to change HD PCB ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3768
As to how I ended up with that problem : the HDs are 2.5 inches IDE drives so I have to use an adaptor to plug the regular IDE cable (50 pins ?) to the HDs (44 pins ?). The adaptor doesn't have the normal anti-screw-up thing on it so when I plugged the drive back in (yearly case cleanup), I screwed...
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:56 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10191
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:01 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10191
Re: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
Hinting is when you say something other than what you mean in hopes that the person you are talking to will ignore the meaning of what you actually said and take the meaning of what you didn't say, but were thinking, as opposed to the millions of things you didn't say but weren't thinking. Communica...
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:17 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10191
- Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:18 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
Take some deep breaths and relax, friends. We've got nothing to argue about here. It's a busy time of year, and computer errors can make anyone crazy. I think we can get ESTools working, though. JVM, I agree Samsung's instructions could use some work. And I don't understand why their tech would tell...
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:29 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
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- Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:35 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
CCTL
While poking around the internet, I discovered that Samsung doesn't have a utility to enable CCTL (similar to Seagate's ERC and WD's TLER) on the F1 series. Either the drive has it, because you paid up to get the "RAID class" model, or it doesn't. This makes me wonder if these new F3 drives will ten...
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:06 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
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- Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:26 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
I ran the test with a brand new formatted F3, nothing on it, and also got a few down-spikes. If it is a background program, then it happens even with an empty disk. While I don't fully understand why you're getting them, I've seen enough graphs with downward spikes like that that I doubt it's a sig...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:35 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
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- Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:32 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
Another theory? Well, WD has a reputation, and reviews, for being faster than Samsung in general, and I think most of the market is looking for speed. The F3 is a new model and may be as f:D ast or possibly faster than the WD 640GB Black, but that is not proven yet in reviews--I have not seen a sin...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:08 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
Do you have any comment to make on that statement at newegg: Cons: When the hdd head is in action, you can notice the click it makes racing across the platter. Yes. There isn't much detail to go on, but my guess is that the click is just normal seek noise. With the drive hard-mounted to a light alu...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:09 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
Quite a statement about all newegg.com reviewers. There are some useful comments on newegg.com from people who are advanced beyond the beginner stage. Did I say anything at all about "all newegg.com reviewers"? No. Ask enough drunks at the bar and you might find one who knows what he's talking abou...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:51 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is it me or does the Quiet Drive suck?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12059
Re: 2 WD10EADS in Scythe quiet drive
I could not get the speedfan to read hd temp. I found another one for you to try. I've read that some RAID controllers don't pass on SMART data, but CrystalDiskInfo is free, and much simpler to set up (just run it). http://crystalmark.info/?lang=en If I were you, I'd skip the beta at the top of the...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:25 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
I have one F3 500GB sitting idle waiting for Windows 7. All I can say at this time is the F3 is extremely quiet and runs cool. You can read comments on newegg.com about both the F3 500GB and 1TB versions. Reading Newegg reviews is about as useful as asking random drunks in a bar. But especially whe...
- Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:06 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
- Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:19 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
The thing about RAID 0 (and RAID 1) is that it doesn't make the seeks any faster. In fact, it will usually slow them down slightly. If you're transferring really large files, striping the data across two drives can nearly double the transfer rate. But when you're not moving huge amounts of sequentia...
- Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:14 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 305096
No, you don't need 1TB to back-up two 500GB in RAID 0. You can use Acronis True Image and it will compress the RAID 0 1TB to the 500GB drive, and then you can restore to your new RAID 0 array, at least that was what I've been told. I think what you were told about was not a compressed backup but a ...
- Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:54 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is it me or does the Quiet Drive suck?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12059
Re: Scythe Quiet Drive & WD10EADS
Speedfan will do it.Cross wrote: How do I measure before and after temperatures on the HD´s ?
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
- Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Confused about HDD selection
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5491
When reading reviews from sites that aren't focused on recording or silencing, keep in mind that to some people "very quiet" means they can hear the drive in the next room with the TV on, but it's not loud enough to blot out the dialog. If you care enough about noise that you found your way here, ac...
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:18 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD20EADS First Impressions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10995
The vibration is all transferred to the spindle making the whole array vibrate, along with the casing. Obviously. The other consideration is that the extra platter requires an extra head. The heads move very rapidly, which are also another source of vibration (maybe even larger, given the counterwe...
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:14 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard-Disk Dampening.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3846
I do find it puzzling that the whoosh of that drive is noticeable, but the seeks are not when hardmounted. It is a pretty quiet drive, maybe the motor bearing is going bad? So do I. Are you sure the noise is coming from the drive? At least 99 times out of 100, if you can hear a hard drive bearing g...
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:59 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD20EADS First Impressions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10995
Nope. If center of mass resides on spindle axis (platters are balanced) even with thousand platters = ZERO vibration. This is why vibration is hit or miss. Of course 4 platter drive has more theoretical potential for vibration as there's more to be misbalanced, but misbalances can also cancel each ...
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:50 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4550
True. You don't want to keep running for weeks on one drive if the other fails. Personally, I would be inclined to shut down the computer if I could possibly get by until the new drive arrived, and if I did have to keep going, I'd back up anything critical. Even if the drives are not identical, ther...
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:25 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4550
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:18 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4550
For RAID 1, writes will be limited by the slowest drive. While two similar drives may perform about the same overall, you'll get the performance of the slowest drive in every situation. In some configurations, differences in read performance could be a problem too. Hence, the ideal is to use identic...