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- Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:27 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD20EARS or WD20EADS? What about seagate's 2tb drive?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 122156
If the new samsung eco drive at 2TB had been available when I made the purchase I would have liked to test it...I've heard many good words about Samsung drives and I'm now willing to "experiment" with other brands...before, I would have never touched a WD... Concerning the advanced formatting featur...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:44 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD20EARS or WD20EADS? What about seagate's 2tb drive?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 122156
@Canadian I'm not that concerned with Seagate's QC (quality control,right?)...that's because I've owned many -almost exclusively- seagate drives the last five years and I've never had a bad incident with them... ...of course I make it my business of researching any hardware I want to buy, so when e....
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:33 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD20EARS or WD20EADS? What about seagate's 2tb drive?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 122156
So I bought the Seagate LP 2TB ...the head park/unpark issue, with no general solution given still, scared me off from buying the Western Digital WD20EARS drive, which I really wanted to, to tell you the truth...gaining 100gb of storage with a change of formatting is no little thing... Also I bought...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:03 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD20EARS or WD20EADS? What about seagate's 2tb drive?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 122156
WD20EARS or WD20EADS? What about seagate's 2tb drive?
So I'm out for a 2TB drive... I was set on the WD20EADS because of the very low - almost non-existent - seek noise and low vibration of the drive, as reported in the reviews in this site... But then, the WD20EA R S comes out which promises more storage area - better performance? - more cache and a f...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:23 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: New exciting case: Fractal Design - Define R2
- Replies: 72
- Views: 76967
This is a great case, with all necessary features to make it a big hit...I prefer this one to Antec's P180...well if the antec offered 8hdds I might consider it more... I would only argue that it could be just a little taller to accomodate an additional 5,25 bay and/or give a little bit more room-br...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:56 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Full tower case with large HDD capacity
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9412
I'm not sure if I got it correctly, not exactly clear...the noise that troubles you comes from the airborne noise of the hard drives, i.e. loud hdd operation (seeks etc), or from induced vibration to the aluminum enclosure? In the first case, you cannot actually blame the enclosure, but you could ac...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:33 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Full tower case with large HDD capacity
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9412
I checked out a few reviews of the NXZT Whisper and I can say I'm not exactly sold: - I would like to have more vertical space between the hdds in the lower department for better airflow - once you fit the psu (and I don't own a modular one) the space is rather limited, - leaving the 2x80mm fans do ...
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:03 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Full tower case with large HDD capacity
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9412
i looked up the case you have on newegg, it has a 5-star rating, but it looks like the hard drives are not suspended in rubber? are you absolutely sure that the vibrational noise is coming from the hard drives? i usually unplug or stop all fans, one at a time, to identify the true source of the noi...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:54 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Full tower case with large HDD capacity
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9412
Full tower case with large HDD capacity
I'm in the market for a full tower case able to house at least 8 hdds, but bit more room would be welcome or rather necessary... I currently own a Chieftec Bravo full tower case and it has served me well for some years and put up with relocations, at times burdened with 11 hdds (3 mounted on 5,25).....