Yay! Finally a decent sized hard drive with low noise!
As good as my Samsung 1614C's are, 160gb is getting a little small - and when you have 6 of them the vibration is a big issue. So even though vibration is similar with the WD it should be a lot less of a problem with only 1 or 2 of them.
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- Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:28 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 121702
- Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:44 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Squeezebox 3 Digital Music Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 114370
I'm a bit dissapointed with the 1 folder-restriction. Huge discs are expensive, and may be to small, and RAIDing is a security-risk. AtW RAID 0 maybe, but RAID 5 is a good choice for putting multiple drives together (as long as you don't mind the poor write performance). Lose any drive and your dat...
- Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:21 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung Spinpoint SP2504C motor
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10529
As an aside, does anyone know if having the SATA drives plugged into the same "channel" (SATA3/4 on my mobo), will cause a bottleneck? I know that with IDE if you have two devices on one IDE channel the devices won't run at optimal speed. SATA drives all run on separate channels, so there is no pro...
- Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:25 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: RAID suspension with pic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6499
- Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:46 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Great Seagate RMA experience!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2329
- Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:36 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Great Seagate RMA experience!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2329
I'm currently waiting for a drive back from Seagate. According to their site, it's being shipped currently. (I sent it off on Monday). I originally tried returning it through the retailer I bought it off, but he reckoned he'd sent it back to the distributor and they'd found it not faulty. Then he sp...
- Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:37 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Cage to mount 4 hds in 3 5 1/2" bays
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4446
Re: Cage to mount 4 hds in 3 5 1/2" bays
Ive checked my raid controller card and it fully supports all those actions rebuilding the array fine. Have you looked into that? Would work out cheaper and more efficient in the long run unless you need the full ~450gb storage up front. No I haven't looked into it, although I would find it hard to...
- Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:36 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Cage to mount 4 hds in 3 5 1/2" bays
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4446
Re: Cage to mount 4 hds in 3 5 1/2" bays
getting a raid array setup soon which will involve 4 samsung 160gb sata hds in a raid 5 array Pretty much exactly what I'm looking at doing sometime this year. Just waiting for the price of the drive to drop closer to $200 (AU$). Total cost of raid array: 5x160gb 1614C's + 3ware 8506-8 ~ $2000. :o ...
- Sun Dec 28, 2003 7:05 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 80 GB Seagate Barracuda IV drives available via HTPC News
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2056
- Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:24 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: ATI Fan replaced with Zalman NB32
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12475
- Sat May 17, 2003 2:15 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: NB32J on Intel 850E with...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2700
- Sat May 17, 2003 2:11 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Better Zalman Northbridge Heatsink Alternative ?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11072
Stop me here for a second, but I am YET to see a northbridge that needs anything more than a really basic heatsink. Under full load for hours mine never got too hot to touch so a simple light heatsink should be all that is required. My Epox 8k9a2+ northbridge comes with a heatsink + fan, and I've j...
- Mon May 12, 2003 12:28 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate SATA V to be discontinued?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2747
- Mon May 12, 2003 12:08 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Undervoltable Motherboards: ADD to the list!!
- Replies: 313
- Views: 406705
Just a sidenote to testing stability with prime95... In some cases you might find that your machine will run 12+ hours of prime95 fine, but then crash in other applications. Or, prime95 might crash within 10 minutes, but then your other applications can run faultlessly. So even though prime95 can gi...
- Mon May 05, 2003 4:52 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Undervoltable Motherboards: ADD to the list!!
- Replies: 313
- Views: 406705
- Fri Jan 17, 2003 4:56 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Piezoelectric fans
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2307
Piezoelectric fans
Came across an interesting article at New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99991701&sub=Nanotechnology A quote from the article: When Garimella put a piezoelectric fan inside a laptop computer with a rotational fan, it brought the temperature down by 8°C. The piez...
- Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:57 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Rheobus/Hardcano/etc ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2130
Rheobus/Hardcano/etc ?
I'm thinking of purchasing a gizmo like one of these, and was wondering what experiences people have had with them? Do they work well with no problems? How many fans can you run off them? How slow/quiet do they allow you to go?
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Mon Jan 13, 2003 1:02 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: IBM's 180GXP series: 8MB cache + Fluid Dynamic Bearings
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12707
- Mon Jan 13, 2003 12:08 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: IBM's 180GXP series: 8MB cache + Fluid Dynamic Bearings
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12707
I'm actually surprised that it bothers anyone more than the seeking sound of it, but if they say so, I don't have any experience with them. Yeah this surprises me too. Without hearing it myself, I'd assume that the sound couldn't be worse than an intense seeking process, and if this is so, is norma...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: What about those noise cancelling thingies?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4221
Saw an article on headphones which do noise-cancelling, they were primarily targetted towards ppl who do a lot of flying, to drop the noise of the engines. Aparently they are smart enough to only drop background noise, and say for example the person next to you is speaking to you, you could hear the...