OK I am done with this damn drive. Suggestion for replacement?

are samsung's green quiet??

Which is quieter? I currently own a WD10EADS and am deeply annoyed by the bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sound it makes occasionally when its idle. Unless WD10EARS doesn't have this issue, I plan on upgrading to it and sell off the EADS to someone who isn't noise fussy like I am. I'...

its meant as a system drive, i don't really care about speed though, noise comes first. my eyes are on samsung hd502hj i think that should be the right model - the samsung f3. i read the forums, some said its the quietest drive they've ever had, but i don't know, anyone care to comment?

To my surprise, my WD3200AAKS is the loudest device in my Silverstone sugo sg05 casing, which is has many gaps for cooling. Wasn't audible when it was in my antec sonata casing.

the sound is make is a whoooooosh sound.

so comes the need to replace it, but with what?

go to your bios and disable C1E until they fix it if itll ever get fixed

my concern, and well, paranoia for that matter is that these drives lose magnetism after some time... but whether it is the actual case im not quite sure

in other words then, these magnetic drives now are even less reliable than they were before right?

I've been wondering about this for a while. Look back, back then, platter density was very low. 80GB per platter. Now it's 320GB per platter. That's like 4 times. But, the physical platter size hasnt changed right? So, this naturally means data is recorded over a much smaller area on the platter rig...

i used to use a raptor.. i then switched to my raid0 setup, and i feel that everything loads faster... makes me wonder now then, why would anyone use raid0 setup..

thanks for the responses. i wonder why my HD161HJ vibrates so much.. compared to my other disks including raptor

the velociraptor looks mighty nice... but, im guessing it carries a might high price tag

i just bought a pioneer 213LS... the quietest drive ive ever own to date

Yeah, I have 2 TB in total, i want 2 250gb 16MB drives that would run in RAID STRIPE mode as my system drives. 2 drives are amazingly fast. i run it this way cuz i dont store any important data on them. my other drives are 'archive drives'.. those other drives dont make noise my current 2x HD161HJ a...

my casing has no space for suspension, i have 7 drives in there, all quiet except these ones, ive done the testing.

oh yea, they are enclosed in the passive scythe hard disk box whatever u call that already.

im looking for another drive... what are my options?

I'm currently using 2x Samsung HD161HJ on raid0. The seek/writes are very quiet, but there was one thing i did not look into when i purchased it. Vibration. The humming is KILLING ME. It's not even a constant humming sound, it goes up and down. As if it's resonating. Now what options do I have? I de...

they have this 10eacs available in my area... anyone know how this is different from re2-gp?

seems they are both 1tb gp........

im sooo lost in picking a reliable 1tb disk.. someone help me

Wanna store data only... most important is RELIABILITY bad experience with WD i've had, samsung not too great either but i havent lost anything.. seagate is the most reliable but its noisy. what would you all pick and whats the deal with f1's now... im soooooooooo confused everyone's talking about s...

same shoes we're in. I too REALLY wanna know. I take suggestions here more than anywhere else

anyone know the differences? i think one's enterprise and one is retail or maybe oem. what do you fellas know?

i can't do suspend. I have 7 drives all packed up. so i need a good drive.

Hard Mounted. I want to have good speeds, but yet silent. my HD501LJ is very silent, but im not gonna make RAID0 out of that. I want to use it as my system drive. I think 2x160GB == 320GB is far too much for a system drive.. but heck, that's less a waste than a 2x320gb or 2x500gb. 5400RPM drive is p...

What we got?

I got a HD161HJ, ok, you can't hear seeks. However, the whole casing is humming. Happens on my Antec SOLO and SONATA 2

The drive vibrates a heck lot.

What other options I got?

What are my options that are just Seagate / Samsung. I currently own a 74GB Raptor.. noisy compared to my HD501LJ. especially when writing.... and especially since its use as my drive c i wanna go 80gb/160gb raid... with a silent drive. maybe that'd give me more space, better price, better performan...

Well, I own two of these disks now, and one of them is DoA.. initially it didn't power up, i thought it was my problem. then while copying data, it kept unpowering and repowering itself. seem like one of the platters isn't functioning properly the way it seems... anyone still confident with this dri...

i'd be interested to know, where did you read bout samsung's t166 doa stories? i wanna see people tell me dead stories bout their t166's.... as im planning to get one myself. now... are they reliable or not.

SP2504C, HD401LJ, HD501LJ these are the samsung models i can get at my place, any comments? heck I have lotsa 7200.9 and its listed under avg reliability...... damn should i replace them with .10 or wait for .11 :/ i think i should get a samsung drive for downloads, so i don't hear annoying loud see...

ok, we hear all the bad stuff bout WD and Maxtor... but no one got any complaints on the Samsungs? So have they been reliable then. hmm

Right now, I have about 6 250GB 7200.9 Seagate Drives and during the time I decided to purchase them, I felt Seagate drives are the most reliable and also silent (older models). I'm getting increasingly annoyed over the seeks right now. Are there any reliable drives right now comparable to Seagate? ...

The idle noise is very good, but in general, the seek noise of the 7200.9 is unacceptable to me. YMMV. As for the Anandtech acoustic testing -- it's wrong in every way from a scientific, acoustic PoV. I would not accept any of the data as being useful in any way. It's too far from accepted standard...

are the 7200.9's safe? anyone have bad experience with them?

1. There is no reliable way of judging drive reliability short of examining return records. For reasons that should be obvious, these records are not public. Well, then you should look Hard drives return rates on this hardware news site. It's a belgian/french website, and they belong to the same co...