First of all, I'm really grateful for the long and informed replies. :) The users at the Synology forum generally say the WD drives (and the Passport I'm planning to purchase) do not prevent hibernation. The list at the link also includes the model I'm planning to buy. I'll also go with WD (I didn't...

Hello again, Thanks for the reply and the links! It will be much better to have the NAS stop the fans during hibernation. I think most of the time it will already be hibernating - if they aren't because it's streaming something, I'll be out of the bedroom anyway; and during system backup when I'm at...

Hello, Thanks for the reply, and sorry I could respond a bit late! I hope you'll enjoy the DS214. :) It's a very good NAS, and that was a nice price. Sadly, we here in Turkey can only envy shopping from Amazon. :) They may ship some electronics to Turkey, but then we have to worry about customs, imp...

Hello, I used to frequent SPCR when I was "silencing" my PC's, but after switching to Mac I had given a break.. until I was provided a link to this topic on the official Synology forums. :D I'm in the same situation, trying to decide between DS213j and DS214. The price difference is not a big concer...

Nice review, thanks. I've had my eyes on this case for a while, but I was thinking it would be VERY loud due to all the "pores" and the 20 cm fan. It seems that it's not doing too bad. My next system will probably have an ATi 5800 and a Core i5.. We still don't have the P183 in Turkey, but it seems ...

Hello, Sorry for "resurrecting" the thread, but may I ask about your experience with the 4890 Vapor-X? I've been looking for a way to make my video card more quiet; but the 8800GT is getting old and I just may get a newer and more quiet video card instead. I won't have to go through installing an af...

Hmm, yes, I did find that out after looking at the Installation Manual from AC's website. I thought I read a forum message saying the Turbo Module could be controlled by the VGA card, but obviously I was mistaken. Sadly, we cannot find Scythe fans in Turkey any more.. I can get a Noctua, though. I h...

Thanks for the replies! I don't have an intake fan in front of the video card (the only intake fan is the Kama Bay, mounted in front of the CPU), so I guess things will be a bit mode difficult for me. I'm a bit clumsy when it comes to zip ties and things like that, I hope (if I decide to go that way...

Hello, After switching to a Samsung EcoGreen F2 harddrive the main source of noise for my PC has become my Palit 8800 GT Sonic. I'm going to make that more quiet as well, and have been searching this subforum for a while. I have decided to get an Accelero S1 Rev.2, but I can't decide which fan to ge...

Those sounds definitely don't sound healthy. It starts like a car accelerating but then the "rattlings", they certainly don't sound good. I don't experience those rattling sounds in the second half of the recording (I haven't paid close attention to the spin - up sound, but it doesn't sound much lik...

Thank you Please see PM, I don't want to bore everyone to death here with my repeated musings about the disk

Hello; I think I'm starting to sound like a broken record with my recent posts; but I would like to second the advice for the Samsung F2 EcoGreen 500 GB. I recently bought one, and it's virtually silent. I have to put my ear next to it to hear the idle sound (though I must admit, maybe it could be h...

Thank you.. :) in fact this graph is one of the "most spiky" graphs I saw yesterday. There's only one internal drive and the OS is on the tested drive, so I think such spikes are somehow unavoidible. One graph I had (with AAM=254, access time: 14,9 ms) was quite smooth in fact. On a sidenote, I inst...

Hello, I've been using this drive for 4 days (thanks to the advice of MikeC and Ksanderash) and I'm quite happy so far. I have suspended it with some elastic cord, and even though I'm using a cheap case with not so good acoustic damping the drive is inaudible in idle. I had to open the case and put ...

Hello, I was in the same position - VERY noisy hard drives, especially irritating since I made considerable efforts to make my PC more quiet. In fact I couldn't detect the noise was coming from the HDD's - I had 2x 7200 Seagates in RAID 0 and 1 320 GB 7200 Seagate for backup- and replaced the PSU; t...

Well, glad to hear it's 500 GB/platter only :) I ran HDTach a few times yesterday.. The transfer rate (Read, I think) starts at 110 and drops to about 55-60 at the "end" of the disk. I'm at work ATM, will post some graphs when I get home. I'm also planning to link to those graphs in the "Samsung F2 ...

There's also an article (on TechReport, link ) about an OCZ SSD losing performance as it fills up. Those SSD's are fast when it comes to "empty" portions of the drive, but when it comes to portions previously written they don't fare so well. They noticed performance drops of up to 50% compared to ne...

Hmm, I read somewhere that the 500 GB F2 EcoGreen uses 2x 320 GB plates, some of the capacity unused. How can I find out if my drive has a single platter or not? Can I somehow find it by software? And IIRC on the AHCI screen during bootup I saw "EcoGreen".. But I have to check this again. I haven't ...

Hello, I've asked for ideas in the last few days here, but for about 500 GB. I second line that the 640 GB Caviar Blue is a popular choice, and -though a bit slower- the 500 GB Samsung EcoGreen F2 or the Caviar Green are easily recommendable. I bought a 500 GB EcoGreen F2 yesterday and I'm happy wit...

Hi again; Installed the disk; and was very pleasantly surprised by the silence. When I boot the PC I'm used to the motor noise of the 2x Seagates; and when I first started the PC with the Samsung installed hearing no motor noise felt unusual - yet very good. I sometimes hear a "writing sound" (can't...

Edit: Nevermind, I searched a bit and looked at photos and I got the right disk. I wonder why I got the impression that the disk was single-platter.. OK, I got the disk and I'm returning home to install it. The disk is a bit different than what I expected, though. I thought this disk uses a single 5...

Oh, I'm certainly going to suspend the Samsung - right now I have 2 suspended 3,5" drives, dropping to 1 will only make things easier. Sorry if the post was a bit ambiguous. And many thanks for the help. :) I'll post the results tomorrow.. I'm quite a bit excited; and hope it'll be worth it. Luckily...

Good news, I managed to find the 500 GB HD502HI. I'm ordering it, and will pick it up tomorrow. The store I often choose can't procure the 1 TB version anyway. :) Rebellious, I was planning to suspend the 2,5" drive anyway; I have no adapters etc. to hard-mount them. I hope this 5400 rpm 3,5" drive ...

CyberDog, I did browse storagereview; however the site doesn't seem to be updated lately. I could not find the Samsung F2. There was a 1 TB comparison including the WD Green, but I didn't read it (had to leave office just after I saw it). Ksanderash, those access times are pretty good. And the trans...

Hello Ksanderash; I'm so glad I got a reply during the daytime of Turkey! :) I can decide and give my order today and will receive the disk tomorrow. Thank you for the link. I have checked the comparison, and it seems that the Momentus series are easily audible during seeks. If they are more audible...

Hmm, OK then - it seems 2,5" drives aren't out of the game then. In fact I'm leaning a bit towards the 2,5" 7200 rpm drives since they'll probably have better random access time than 5400'ers, and that's more important IMO than a 5 - 10 MB/s decrease in data transfer rate. I've been searching the SP...

Arvo - Thanks for the link! I'm using my phone now, will check the graphs tomorrow morning. I checked some graphs for the Momentus 7200.3 today (the 7200.4 is nowhere to be found) and transfer speeds peaked at about 90 mb/s. This is not so bad, but I still wonder if it makes sense to put it in a com...

Hello, I spent the day scouring the 'net for hard drive reviews, tests and prices.. Strangely, I could not access SPCR for the most of the day - and found out that using Google's cache is not so much fun. A computer enthusiast's life in Turkey is not easy - I checked out price-fetching sites and som...

MikeC and dhanson865; thanks for the replies! MikeC: I agree about the importance of "random access". I would much rather have a Velociraptor or an SSD than a RAID array which moves more data per second, but accesses it a bit slower. Sadly, the 150 GB Velociraptor is sold for (including taxes etc.) ...

Hello, With the help of SPCR articles and forums I have succeeded in bringing my PC to a very acceptable noise level. The case is a cheap ASUS TA-982 (hoping to get an Antec P183 if it's sold in Turkey), but with a TRUE + S-Flex E for the CPU, a Noctua for exhaust, a Kama Bay for air inlet (the Kama...